All Building articles in 16 April 2010 – Page 5
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David Whysall: Why we need Generation Y
To win the battles of the future, we need to enlist the impatient and energetic youngsters of ‘Generation Y’ as quickly as possible – regardless of the recession
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Rodent control
Vermend has launched the Rat Blocker, a system for preventing rat invasion via sewage outlets in domestic and commercial properties
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McAlpine set to clinch Milton Court job
Sir Robert McAlpine is set to grab the £150m Milton Court scheme, one of the biggest contracts being tendered in the City of London market
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University challenge: The higher education construction conundrum
It’s a tricky one: higher education institutions have to slash capital spending plans, but they need to keep upgrading their estates if they want to attract students and, consequently, funding
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Cherrys consider ‘outsider’ for Countryside chairman job
Co-owner Lloyds may back non-family candidate in drive for more involvement in housebuilding assets
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The house that Jim built: Designing for a QS
When QS Jimmi Bradbury asked school pal and architect Niall McLaughlin to design him a home, the brief was pretty loose. What he came up with was this serene set of glass and wooden boxes – but how tranquil would the relationship be once work began? Thomas Lane took a ...
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Building Intelligence
Experian’s Business Strategies division looks at what happened to the industry at the end of 2009, which makes for grisly reading – but there were some star performers, and things are looking up …
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Open letter to readers of Building magazine from Nick Clegg
Leader of the Liberal Democrats responds to Building's Charter 284 campaign for investment in infrastructure
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New RICS boss plans to woo disgruntled QSs
Sean Tompkins, incoming chief executive, will meet heads of largest cost consultants within months
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Unite's Bob Blackman to retire
Bob Blackman, national secretary for construction at union Unite, has announced his retirement after 12 years in the job.
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Biomass pellet boiler
Viessmann has launched the Vitoligno 300-P biomass pellet boiler with outputs from 4kW to 48 kW and an operating efficiency of up to 86%
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Skanska bets on civils and utilities
Skanska UK has said it will rely on the utilities and civils markets to help it through the downturn
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Being good in a wicked world
Go into a local market with a local partner, and you are responsible for what it does – even if the boss is the minister of justice’s brother-in-law
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Team behind collapsed Cube contractor rehired
The team behind Buildability, the collapsed contractor of The Cube in Birmingham, has been re-employed by administrator Pricewaterhouse Coopers to finish the £100m mixed-use development.
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Don't become a couch potato
A period without a job needn’t be a waste of time. Here’s how you could turn it into an opportunity …
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Quentin Shears: The Dubai polar bear sanctuary
’I get the Oxford Anthology of Business poetry off the shelf. It’s time for the big guns’
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Battersea revived
The redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, designed by Rafael Viñoly, has been given the green light from English Heritage
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Public sector props up industry in March as Balfour tops table
More than half of month’s £1.78bn total comes from public projects
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