All Building articles in 2008 Issue 5 – Page 7
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Features
I regard it as a badge of honour when people say I’m over the top about nuclear power
INTERVIEW: Margaret Thatcher’s former press secretary, Sir Bernard Ingham, has spent much of the past 10 years lambasting the ‘mad mullahs’ of the anti-nuclear lobby and subjecting their arguments to an unrelenting barrage of ridicule. And don’t think the government’s decision to build a lot of nuclear stations is going ...
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Comment
Who will abide by the rules?
Do clients really want another measure to regulate payment? Judging by the slow take-up so far, possibly not …
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News
Miller rebels capitulate after failing to reach 75% goal
Two-month row at construction firm ends with deal to sell shares on family’s internal market
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News
Vinci wields the axe after £7m Stradform takeover
Numerous departures feared as French contractor closes Bristol office and makes 10 redundant
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News
Deborah bought for £48m
Siteserv, the Dublin site services group, is set to buy Yorkshire-based Deborah Services for up to £48m.
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News
Flint underlines commitment to 3m homes by 2020
New housing minister says increasing housing supply is her ‘first priority’
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News
Contractors workload to last until 2011 …
The credit crunch will not hit building tender prices for another three years, according to EC Harris.
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News
Planning applications: January 2008
Applications hold steady in the South-east and rise sharply in the Midlands, North and South-west
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News
2.3bn in orders
Infrastructure consultant Mouchel is trading in line with expectations in 2008.
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News
Government orders review of £2.3bn prisons scheme
EC Harris drafted in to assess ability to procure 16,000 prison places in eight years
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News
Crossrail agrees to keep noise down with £2m rubber track
Rubber “noise dimming” rail tracks will have to be installed on parts of the £16bn Crossrail scheme after businesses and residents on the route complained about noise.
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News
£1bn ‘city beneath a city’ planned for Amsterdam
Lack of space and high land prices drive engineers to plan 1 million m2 project under canals
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News
Buy-to-let ‘has added £14,000 to average house price’
House prices have been inflated by buy-to-let investors, according to a report by the government’s housing affordability advisers.
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News
Crossrail could extend to Reading
Land West of Maidenhead has been earmarked for a possible extension to Crossrail
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HSE renews calls to reduce asbestos exposure
The asbestos removal industry is challenged by the HSE to reduce exposure to asbestos at summit next week