All Building articles in 2008 Issue 20 – Page 6
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News
Private house starts in April at lowest for a decade
More evidence of decline emerges as government is warned that output targets will not be met
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Features
APC trainer: Punch your weight
For all surveyors about to go nine rounds with the APC exams, our crack team of trainers are here to whip you into shape. Every week at building.co.uk they show you how to beat a different question. Here Dean Mills gives you a taste of what’s on offer
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Alumasc write-off
Alumasc will write off up to £2.5m after finding an accounting overstatement in its engineering products division.
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Agency workers
Agency workers are to be given the same basic rights as permanent workers within 12 weeks of starting a job, under a government plan agreed with unions.
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Doubt over Rogers’ London adviser role
The future of Lord Rogers as the mayor of London’s design adviser was thrown further into doubt this week as Richard Barnes, Boris Johnson’s deputy mayor, failed to confirm whether the Labour peer would remain in the role.
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Government seeks legal advice on supermarket fascia test
Government officials are taking legal advice on whether the new supermarket planning test proposed by the competition regulator will require primary legislation.
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Comment
Building buys a pint … for Adams Kara Taylor
Guy can’t believe his bad luck. He is meeting a construction magazine for drinks and finds himself sat between two women rabbeting on about the Sex and the City movie.
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Comment
What happens in the second act?
After what has seemed like endless dithering on the part of the government, and endless lobbying campaigns by the interested parties, the reform of the 1996 Construction Act is finally on its way.
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News
MPs accuse industry of ‘feeble excuses’ on zero carbon
MPs have accused the housebuilding industry of making “feeble excuses” to avoid making new homes zero carbon by 2016 and “dragging its feet on renewables”.
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OFT under fire for ‘wrongful’ accusations
The Office of Fair Trading’s investigation into bid rigging has been labelled “incompetent” after it emerged that it wrongly accused some companies of collusive tendering on projects they had not been involved in.
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Comment
Things to take into account
Project bank accounts are in the spotlight again. If you use one yourself, make sure you’re aware of all the pros and cons, particularly with regard to insolvency
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News
Egan: housebuilders have done ‘absolutely nothing’ to improve
Sir John Egan has attacked housebuilders for not implementing the recommendations in his Rethinking Construction report.
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Kier confident that profit will meet £92m forecast
Kier has said pre-tax profit for the year ended 30 June 2008 will be in line with expectations, provided there is no further deterioration in its housing business.
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Cutty Sark restoration goes on despite £4m shortfall
A year after fire ripped through the ship’s hull, client insists £25m refurbishment will be completed
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in April 2008
The private sector plummets in April, but social housing completions climb by more than 50%
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Features
20 Fenchurch Street: Demolition mission
When Keltbray was given the task of taking down a 25-storey building in the City to make way for Rafael Viñoly’s Walkie-talkie, it found that conventional demolition techniques were of no use.
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Pain worsens for housebuilders as 1,000 jobs go in a week
Bellway axes 370 staff, Taylor Wimpey slashes 600, Land buyers and designers worst hit