All Building articles in 15 May 2009 – Page 5
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McLaren to cherrypick Verry Construction’s best jobs
Main contender for takeover rejects wholesale purchase as Leadbitter picks up £80m college contract
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Spa turn: Bermondsey Spa regeneration
Willmott Dixon’s social housing arm Inspace has been named preferred bidder on the Bermondsey Spa regeneration project in Southwark, south London
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Revealed: behind the scenes of the Taylor Wimpey debt deal
The housebuilder concluded its marathon refinancing deal at the end of last month. Here, a senior banker tells Tom Bill the inside story of nearly a year of late-night meetings, increasingly fraying nerves and, finally, an agreement
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TrustMark begs for state funding
The chief executive of TrustMark, the scheme launched four years ago to protect consumers against cowboy builders, has appealed to the government for more funding to keep the initiative afloat during the recession
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More egg baskets required
I worked for Taylor Woodrow International from 1975 to 1980 in various parts of the world and its geographic and sectoral diversification was one of its greatest strengths
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Redrow goes back to work
Housebuilder Redrow has said it will resume work on selected sites as the steady start to 2009 continues
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What price victory? Winning back legal costs
You’ve won a legal battle so it’s only reasonable you get your costs reimbursed, isn’t it? Ah, if only it were that simple
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Architects, take a bow
Prince Charles didn’t say he’d employ Lord Foster to make over Highgrove – that would really have been a great way to make up with the modernists
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Blacklist victims to help draft anti-discrimination rules
Workers set to tell government to ban firms that used the blacklist from public projects
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Off-site really is the answer
So the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) is launching a drive to boost the private rental sector. As residential property prices fall, rental yields are starting to look more attractive to investors and pension funds, so the opportunity is there for the taking
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Cabe given veto over all new school designs
Cabe is to be given the power to stop badly designed schools from starting construction, the government announced this week
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We can't afford cheap and nasty
The recession is turning us, and our politicians, into mean, short-sighted people. And this is exactly the right way to make sure it lasts a long, long time
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School acoustics: Can you hear me at the back?
Teachers are being drowned out, education is suffering, and yet acoustics in schools seem to be getting worse, not better. Stephen Kennett reports on a rules review that could change the way we build
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Voices from the abyss
As the recession drags on, we hear the sound of lamentation from losing Crossrail bidders, wailing from architects’ competition lists and saucy ad libs from property professionals
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Banks lean on Barratt to raise £300m-plus from rights issue
Barratt has come under increased pressure from its lenders to raise cash through a rights issue in the wake of Taylor Wimpey’s success in raising £510m last week
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Savills joint venture plans £250m rented homes fund
Consultant and housing association A2 Dominion join forces to bid for HCA private rental scheme
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TrustMark: a £22k tale of horror
This is the story of a man who gave a TrustMark-registered firm £22k to renovate his home. What he got for his money was two weeks’ worth of work, three years of hell and a wrecked house. But how did the builder keep its reassuring logo?
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2012 village goes public as Lend Lease deal is turned down
Funding for the 2012 athletes’ village will come entirely from the public purse after the government rejected a £375m private sector deal with Lend Lease
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Planning applications: April 2009
Projects at detailed planning stage rose slightly in all regions apart from Wales and the North
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Balfour ends April fighting fit after £170m Fife hospital deal
Business barometer Contractor tops monthly table, but overall work is 24% down on last year