All Building articles in 2008 Issue 9 – Page 8
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Comment
Building buys a pint … for MCMS
Straight off, Helena warns me not to expect Frank to speak. “He’s the strong silent type,” she explains. “A bit like Lurch from the Addams Family.”
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Building Regs to be updated every three years
The Building Regulations will be reformed every three years from 2010, rather than on a random basis, if proposals to be published in the next few weeks are implemented.
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Minister hints at zero carbon tax reforms in Budget
Phil Woolas, the environment minister, has hinted at changes in stamp duty rules for zero-carbon homes in next week’s budget.
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MP slates brick and concrete
The brick and cement industry is demanding an urgent meeting with Phil Woolas, the environment minister, after he predicted the death of brick and concrete within 30 years.
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BREEAM due for most radical revamp yet in May
An updated version of the UK’s leading environmental standard is to be launched in May, and will introduce some of the most radical changes in its history.
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Features
Eating concrete for breakfast
Colin ‘Dano’ Daniel was a fearsome site manager who used to have ‘a lot of outbursts’. But that was before he worked for his new boss – his son Julian, head of Bovis’ south division.Now they live, eat and breathe construction together, pausing only to watch their beloved Hull City. ...
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Liverpool gets housing boost
Merseyside is to received the biggest tranche of funding in the latest round of the government’s housing market renewal programme, which is designed to turn around areas of derelict housing in northern England.
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Blackpool illuminations set to provide shining example
A £200m plan for Blackpool’s annual illuminations to be powered by offshore wind energy is being drawn up by the council.
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BSS buys Birchwood
Building supplies firm BSS has bought safety workwear group Birchwood for £18.4m.
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Sharewatch — Betting on the market – with imaginary money of course
Buy low, sell high, as the expression goes. On Monday this week Sharewatch put the theory to the test by investing 100 imaginary pounds in several construction-related companies at a time when the industry is in a trough.
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Beautiful Barnet
The regeneration of Grahame Park in Colindale, north London, is about to start on site.
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South Bank firms stave off gridlock
Fears that a glut of construction activity on London’s South Bank will lead to gridlock have led to four major schemes establishing a joint strategy on the delivery of materials.
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Balfour Beatty restructures M&E management team
Balfour Beatty was yesterday expected to unveil a restructure of its M&E businesses after David Beck, Haden Young’s managing director, recently left his post.
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MJ Gleeson blames bad results on flagging north-west market
MJ Gleeson’s chief executive has blamed his company’s exposure to the flagging north-west England market for its poor results in the second half of 2007.
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Two City Lofts projects go back to planning stage
429 homes in Liverpool and a 29-storey tower in Glasgow are returned to drawing board
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Laing O’Rourke restructures specialist arm
Laing O’Rourke is closing three out of five divisions of its demolition, piling and concrete frame business as part of a restructuring.
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Laing O’Rourke restructures specialist arm
Contractor closes three out of five divisions of its demolition, piling and concrete frame business
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WSP ‘firing on all cylinders’ and confident it will ride out storm
Chris Cole, chief executive of consultant WSP, said its spread of sectors meant it was well-placed to survive the credit crunch.