All Building articles in 18 July 2008 – Page 6
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Features
The tracker: Going down
Materials prices are rising and enquiries and orders are dropping. Experian Business Strategies predicts that this is just the beginning of a further decline in the construction industry
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Comment
Doesn't measure up
I criticised the RICS for years and wrote several times seeking changes in favour of its members, particularly a review of its budget so that the annual subscription fees could be reduced.
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Comment
Our digital lives - Stef & Stelio Stefanou
Stef and Stelio Stefanou’s real lives look similar on paper. So Charlotte Matheson is surprised to discover that the brothers’ online habits are as different as … WA Mozart and Amy Winehouse
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Comment
Data protection: The prying game
The monitoring of individuals is accepted practice today, but be careful how you use the data, as those being watched still have a right to privacy, says Angus Darroch-Warren
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Comment
Hansom: curiouser and curiouser
As the economic world disappears down the rabbit hole, we find ourselves in a strange land where no email is quite as it seems, consultants befriend barn owls and masked builders roam the Orient
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News
Social housing proved welcome refuge from the crunch in June
Business barometer - Laing O’Rourke takes top spot, followed by two affordable housing firms
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News
Supermarket competition test delayed
The government has delayed a decision on whether to introduce a “competition test” for new supermarkets amid concerns over a legal challenge by Tesco.
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CIS tax penalties
HM Revenue & Customs issued fines to 30,000 contractors who did not comply with the new Construction Industry Scheme between November and May.
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Comment
Chinese whispers
Li Shirong, from the Chongqing Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Commission, has a mission to promote development and investment in her city.
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Features
Chaos theory: Gehry’s Serpentine pavilion
Gehry’s Serpentine pavilion may look like timber and glass thrown together, but precise planning went into getting it just right, says Martin Spring
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News
Durkan changes name
Durkan Pudelek, one of the contractors under investigation in the Office of Fair Trading construction probe, has changed its name to Concentra.
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Zaha’s French connection: Marseilles CMA CGM tower
Zaha Hadid’s €112m (£76m) tower for French shipping company CMA CGM is under construction in the Mediterranean city of Marseilles.
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Industry welcomes call for construction ‘champion’
Select committee recommends single Whitehall official to co-ordinate policy towards built environment
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Millbridge Group buys LG Consult
Chartered surveyor snaps up London QS in a deal worth over £250,000
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Comment
Domestic builds: Identifying the rogue element
Things often go awry with domestic projects, but they may not always be the fault of cowboy builders
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Comment
Building buys a pint … for John Doyle
Chosen watering hole: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Ambience: Rambling spit’n’sawdust joint for the not-quite-in-the-City worker Topics of conversation: Yorkshire, the Moseley trial, the housing market, the rest of the market Drinks drunk: 10 pints bitter, 4 pints lager, 2 glasses red wine, 6 glasses white wine, 3 cokes
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News
Building Design Partnership buys Dutch designer Khandekar
Building Design Partnership has acquired Dutch design practice Khandekar for an undisclosed sum
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Builders react to slump by taking down half-built homes
Berkshire councillor alleges that move has been made to avoid triggering planning payments