All Building articles in 2008 Issue 8 – Page 4
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NewsCyril Sweett acquires Jones Sweett
Consultant expands business in Middle East with acquisition of international alliance partner
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NewsGalliford Try seeks 10% cut from housing suppliers
After Taylor Wimpey’s 5% demand, Galliford asks suppliers for help in ‘increasingly difficult market’
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NewsEcobuild video report
See interviews with visitors and exhibitors at this week's show, includings Gleeds head of sustainability Jerry Percy
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NewsBest view in the house
Thanks to David Wilds for this photo of a Shanghai window cleaner, clearly reconsidering his choice of career.
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Willmott wins
Willmott Dixon has taken its workload procured through the public sector framework to more than £100m with two pre-contract appointments in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and Bognor Regis, West Sussex.
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CommentThinking it through
The need to be sustainable is now as universally accepted as the need to wear a seat belt. But as Ryanair’s campaign advertising “1 million flights for 1p” illustrates, it’s one thing to accept the desirability of sustainable living, another to make the sacrifices to actually do it.
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FeaturesThe stage is set …
… and come 1 April, if you're on the shortlist for the Building Awards 2008, you could be stepping up at the Grosvenor House hotel with applause ringing in your ears
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NewsView from the rooftop
Forget the fabric of the building, inside the home is where you can make a real impact on its green rating. Anna Scothern of the National Centre for Excellence in Housing tells us how to score some points
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Purified water tap
Franke has developed the Triflow tap, which delivers purified water to kitchens.
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Tescos Wear plan
Tesco is in talks with Sunderland council over proposals for a retail park to the north of the river Wear.
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Surveyors strike over pay
Staff at the Valuation Office Agency, which employs 1,000 surveyors, went on strike today after spurning an increased pay offer.
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Norwest in North-east
Norwest Holst has bought Newcastle upon Tyne contractor Gordon Durham for an estimated £5m.
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CommentWeb watch — Measuring up
In the third of his series on construction industry websites, Martin Hornagold turns his attention to surveyors and again finds that they are failing basic tests
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Trillium may be sold
Land Securities has said it may sell its outsourcing Trillium business for a reported £1.5bn.
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Minerva makes loss
Property group Minerva made a pre-tax loss of £114.5m in the six months to 31 December 2007, down from a profit of £15.4m last year.
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Stainless steel kitchen sink
Carron Phoenix has launched a new stainless steel sink called Zeta 100.
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Comment
An interim measure
I take issue with Amanda Levete’s position on nuclear power (8 February, pages 30-31).
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FeaturesThe inside job
It was like the Great Escape in reverse. How do you get inside a prison to double prisoner capacity without giving your captive audience any funny ideas about all that scaffolding? Using a panelised system was one solution – though not half as much fun as smashing a hole in ...
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NewsSharewatch — Investors on tenterhooks as housebuilders reveal results
Investors watched from behind their sofas as Persimmon posted its 2007 results on Tuesday. This was the first major indicator of the state of the market in 2008, and there was good and bad news.