All Building articles in 2005 issue 19 – Page 4
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Comment
And another thing …
In response to Peter Duckett’s letter calling on specialists to get tough (29 April, page 38): how about specialists doing what they tendered for and not strong-arming medium and smaller contractors, and some larger ones, to get their own way?
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NewsTroubled Bath Spa to stay closed for another year
Project manager Capita Symonds set to complete repairs by next Easter after taking over from Mowlem
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All change for construction in Blair’s latest reshuffle
Alun Michael expected to be given construction portfolio in new Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry
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Comment
Standard alert
Publication of the European standard for external rendering, coming at a time when new Building Regulations are being issued thick and fast, may get overlooked by some.
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News
Roofer blew whistle on cartel ‘after blackmail threat’
Roofing firm Briggs exposed the illicit cartel it was involved in to OFT after being blackmailed over its activities
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CommentAn admission
The answer to the future energy needs of the UK is to be found in the power plants of Woking. Or should that be the wind farms of Denmark? Hang on …
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Comment
Go to the adjudicator
It made me sad to read the story of Alan Danieli, the small builder being driven out of business by unpaid accounts.
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Comment
Free to adjudicate
This was an appeal from the decision of HHJ Havery of 25 June 2004 in which he determined four issues relating to the enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision. The judge found that an oral instruction was evidenced in writing by the minutes of a meeting dated 15 September and ...
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Industry acts after training record is blasted
The Major Contractors Group and CITB-ConstructionSkills are to pilot a scheme to guarantee apprenticeships for construction students, as a hard-hitting report criticises the industry’s training record this week
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Pensions Act threatens firms with bankruptcy
Construction firms face heavy financial losses as the result of a section in last month’s Pensions Act that commits them to retrospective payments, industry experts have warned.
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Features
Just about holding up
Last year, construction output grew more than the UK economy as a whole, but the outlook over the next few years is flatter than Patagonia. Experian Business Strategies crunches the numbers
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NewsNew man at the ministry walks into row over PPG3
Argument over planning gain will be high on the agenda for David Miliband, Prescott’s lieutenant at the ODPM
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Features
2711 blocks, 6 million deaths
Berlin’s Jewish memorial uses abstract art on a monumental scale to commemorate the victims of the Nazi Holocaust
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News
High-gloss paint to be banned by 2010
Decorators are to be banned from using high-gloss paint on houses and buildings from 2010 under a European Union directive to cut pollution
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NewsLibeskind rethinks design of 9/11 tall tower
Nina Liebskind, the wife and business partner of Daniel Libeskind, the architect designing the replacement for the twin towers in New York, has admitted the building could be delayed by up to eight months because of design changes to improve security.
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FeaturesTurn us loose
The main problem faced by the government, the economy and the construction industry is over-regulation. Tackling it should be the main task of Labour’s third term
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