All Building articles in 2008 Issue 21 – Page 7
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Bovis Homes slashes workforce
Bovis Homes has become the latest housebuilder to swing an axe through staff numbers, following the downturn in the housing market.
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City predicts takeover as Jarvis returns to black
Pre-tax profit of £11.1m is double the forecast, while rail turnover rises 45% to £206.3m
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Labour MPs plot Planning Bill revolt
A former Labour environment minister is planning a backbench rebellion over government plans to devolve major planning decisions to an unelected commission.
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Sharewatch — Wolseley brings in big guns to warn off suitors
Chip Hornsby, Wolseley’s chief executive, has had a busy week. On Sunday it emerged the building materials giant had appointed Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers and UBS to fend off a takeover bid.
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Bear profit up
Construction group Northern Bear’s pre-tax profit has risen from £100,000 to £2.3m in its first full year.
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Barhale doubles profit
Barhale Construction almost doubled its pre-tax profit – from £2.1m to £3.9m – in the year to 31 December 2007.
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BAA reports loss
Airport operator BAA has posted a loss before tax of £62m for the first quarter of this year, blaming increased maintenance and security costs for the shortfall.
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Features
RIBA Book Award: Park and read
A surprisingly beautiful book on car parks nabbed the best space at this year’s international book award for construction. Judge Max Fordham tells Martin Spring why it deserved to win
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Architects, artists and psychos …
An exhibition of work by artists on the theme of architecture has opened at the Hayward Gallery, London.
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Features
Protected animals: Dangerous creatures!
Don’t be fooled by the fur: one bat can bring your entire project to a halt. And now a change in the law means that so can water voles and even snails. Has the world gone mad?
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Comment
A load of hot air
The argument that spare office cooling capacity could be the solution for overheating on the London Underground (23 May, page 11) is fatally flawed.
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AHMM scoops award
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has won RIBA London’s Building of the Year 2008 for its Westminster Academy at the Naim Dangoor Centre.
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Happily ever after: delivering regeneration in partnership
The public and private sectors are evolving new and fertile ways to marry their efforts on regeneration
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Capita advises Virgin on health scheme
Virgin has appointed Capita Architecture to act as a design consultant for its new private health centres.
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New adventures …
... of construction’s own Indiana Jones, the strange case of the incredibly hairy bedfellow, and two very good reasons to turn down a job on the Southbank …
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Three on shortlist for £500m lab
HOK, Rafael Viñoly Architects and NBBJ are understood to be the last three practices in the race to design a controversial £500m “superlab” in central London.
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Costain bosses get 50% pay rise as firm enters black
Andrew Wyllie, chief executive of Costain, received a pay increase in 2007 of 54%, which took his earnings to £663,679.