All Building articles in 2007 issue 01 – Page 5
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News
Berkeley faces profit revision
Housebuilders could be affected if alterations to accounting rules go ahead
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Back from the brink?
Wembley steel subcontractor Cleveland Bridge wins leave to appeal in court battle with Multiplex
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Features
‘We don’t hug trees and do Kum Ba Yah’
Murray Coleman is not a man to mince his words, as Mark Leftly found when he trailed the new Bovis Lend Lease construction boss around one of the contractor’s more problematic PFI projects
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Pascall + Watson pulls out of ‘nightmare’ talks with Atkins
Architect’s managing director says his firm was put under pressure to conclude merger
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Housing Corporation cuts red tape to assist developers
The Housing Corporation has told developers that it intends to reduce the amount of red tape they will have to contend with when bidding for grants.
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Comment
A call to arms
Forget new year’s resolutions and good intentions, our new columnist reveals the biggest challenge facing the UK economy in the 21st century
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Comment
Worlds apart
STATE YOUR CASE — Tony Bingham says arbitrators, judges and adjudicators do the same job, but the timescale of adjudication makes the process markedly different, argues Nick Henchie
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Comment
To answer the first question …
Stephen Robinson of the London Fire Brigade says a fire in a concrete or steel building isn’t an issue.
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News
Alsop to design Eden rival in Norfolk
Architect Will Alsop is to enhance his green credentials by designing a £250m biomass power station in East Anglia
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Recovery set to continue after surprise slowdown
Market analysts say growth in construction output is likely after blip in first half of 2006
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Estate set to be rebuilt after poll
Plans by architect Pollard Thomas Edwards (PTE) to rebuild a council estate that is threatened by collapse have cleared a key hurdle.
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Bovis ordered to stop work after Manchester fatality
Bovis Lend Lease has stopped groundworks on sites throughout the country after a worker was killed by an excavator on its Barton Square project in Manchester.
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‘Cautious’ Costain writes down £50m
Channel Tunnel Rail Link extension at King’s Cross could be part of the disputed contracts
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Norwich Union’s Edwardian HQ joins the 21st century
Land Securities and LSI Architects complete £90m makeover of insurance giant’s Norfolk home
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Employment lawyers to be kept busy in 2007
Construction firms are set to be hit by an increase in employment litigation in 2007 because of changes in the law including the smoking ban, age discrimination legislation and the introduction of the CIS tax scheme.
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Features
The 2007 Building horoscope
Will the Olympic budget keep soaring? Will Ray O’Rourke buy when Amec sells? Will Ucatt survive against the super union? Will QSs still be interested in property? And will we still be talking about Wembley in December? Consulting a beginner’s guide to astrology, we reveal all this and more in ...
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Planning applications: November 2006
This month the South-east maintains its lead and Aspire Defence is the biggest client
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Equity firms withdraw £1.5bn offer for Amec
Two private equity companies have withdrawn their £1.5bn offer for Amec after the company refused to open up its accounts to scrutiny.