All Building articles in 2007 Issue 24 – Page 4
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News
Developers face squeeze over green standards
Developers may have to accept lower margins, as they will probably be unable to pass on the higher cost of meeting environmental construction standards, says Savills.
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Comment
Managed to death
A Treasury crackdown on tax avoidance may spell the end for ‘managed service’ companies. Rebecca Power explains what this will mean for the firms that use them
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Davis Langdon to report third successive year of growth
Consultant retains top spot as global turnover reaches £221m for year to April 2007
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Jarvis cuts loss and insists turnaround is on track
Troubled rail engineer Jarvis has reduced its losses by £30m since last year, despite being hit by a slowdown in contracts.
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Comment
Custard pies
Facebook and LinkedIn are the latest players in social networking. Which you choose depends on whether you prefer to talk to managing directors or throw cakes at them.
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International sale of safety test sparks new CSCS row
Board fears export of CITB-owned test will encourage unqualified workers to come to the UK
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The rise and rise of Croydon
John Rowan and Partners (JRP) has begun work on a £27m residential scheme for Barratt Kent in Croydon, South London.
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Features
Country focus: Czech Republic
A thriving economy and the biggest residential boom since the Velvet Revolution are driving the Czech market, report Miroslav Vasko and Pavel Cermák of the Prague office of EC Harris
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Councils may pull out of PFI social housing market
Government expected to give go-ahead for authorities to take out loans using own resources
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Crane collapse firm was warned
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) issued a warning in February to the firm whose crane collapsed in Croydon, south London, last week.
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RIBA proposes lagoons for Essex coast
Planners must place less emphasis on “quick fix” engineering solutions to flooding in the Thames Gateway or face disaster, according to a report by the RIBA.
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Features
Westfield at White City: Westway to the world
Need any more evidence of Westfield’s massive ambitions? How about these 14 cranes looming over west London, and the huge mall rising around them. Or the fact that it ditched its contractor to take on this monster of a project by itself.
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Chester conversion
Construction and fit-out contractor Multibuild has won a £4.5m contract with Opus Land to convert a building in Chester into a mixed-use development.
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Livingstone’s design unit to take charge of Olympic legacy
Ken Livingstone’s architectural unit will be in charge of working out how the Olympic park will be adapted to life after the 2012 Games, it emerged this week.
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Miller and PJ Carey fined for worker’s death
Contractors Miller and PJ Carey have been handed heavy fines following the death of a worker in 2003.
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Mears care homes
Social housing company Mears has bought care service provider Britannia Care for £1.1m.