All Building articles in 2007 issue 48 – Page 7
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News
Cash crisis brings down KelSco
Fit-out and refurbishment contractor KelSco has gone into voluntary liquidation with an administrator appointed.
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CommentCorporate bloat
Some companies’ merger strategies are little more than an attempt to puff themselves up and appease the egotism of senior management. So, if you get the urge, ask yourself whether your purchase is really necessary
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NewsDevelopers warn bill gives councils too much power
Planning bill giving councils right to impose tougher eco standards ‘endangers housing delivery’
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NewsTropus & Spicer becomes consultancy’s latest merger
Tropus and Spicer Partnership combine to create £4m-turnover practice
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News‘It would become the largest graffiti site in Europe’
Government plans David Beckham academy on supercasino site – but next to Man City’s stadium
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FeaturesWith knobs on: Barratt's energy-saving technologies measured
These houses have had all manner of wonderful energy-saving technologies fitted to them by housebuilder Barratt. But are they any good and are they worth spending money on? Barratt asked researchers at Manchester university to find out …
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Sharewatch Jarvis goes back into the dog house
There are few certainties in life perhaps, but along with death and taxes it may well be worth adding avoiding shares in Jarvis.
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NewsHomes body to back Callcutt’s big idea
The government’s housing and regeneration super quango will be given a lead role to implement the proposals of last week’s housing delivery review by John Callcutt.
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NewsBuilding’s awards success
Building has won Magazine of the Year and Website of the Year at the International Building Press awards, and its journalists have scooped a string of prizes.
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NewsEclectic avenue
Linden Homes Southern has won planning permission for The Avenue in Southampton, designed by John Thompson & Partners.
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NewsMiller attacks Ernst & Young and claims rebels are split
Keith Miller takes his fight to keep company in hands of family to dissident shareholders’ adviser
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Atkin Chambers
On the way out of the office Sarah, the news editor, calls me over. “Tell them about Roger Stewart,” she says. Come again? “Roger Stewart – Multiplex’s barrister.”
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Features
Assessment of prolonged cruelty
To become a chartered surveyor you must undertake an assault course than can take years to complete. Success depends on guts, fighting instinct and the tough love of a good employer. In Building’s first APC survey, Katie Puckett finds out what help the top firms offer their raw recruits
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Former National Express boss is appointed chairman of Kier
Phil White, a former National Express chief executive, has been appointed non-executive chairman of Kier, replacing Peter Warry who will step down at the end of this year.
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Tesco’s appeal
Tesco has lodged an appeal against Sunderland council over its Vaux Village site.
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CommentAnn is in cloud-cuckoo-land
Ann Minogue wrote here that my criticism of Network Rail was unfair. But she is living in a fantasy world where there are still adversarial tools and penalties rather than teamworking and shared risk
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Amec speculation
Speculation is growing that Amec is planning a takeover bid for Wood Group in an attempt to create a £5bn energy company, although the companies said no talks had been held.
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CommentWe all have good intentions
If a supplier makes a Horlicks of your building, you may find yourself asking a court for the money to put it right yourself. But will the court believe you’ll really do the work?