All Building articles in 2008 Issue 9 – Page 9
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Features
Will it be ken again?
He may once have been master of all he surveys, but Ken Livingstone’s victory in May’s election for London mayor is not assured. This time he has to convince voters of his record. So how has he done? Mark Leftly takes seven key pledges in the London Plan and judges ...
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Comment
Should we vote for Ken again?
It may not have the drama of the race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but the battle for the hot seat in London’s City Hall is every bit as fierce.
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News
Carillion tightens security after demonstration in Manchester
Carillion has stepped up security around its Manchester office after a demonstration against a detention centre at Manchester airport by an immigrants’ rights group.
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News
Prescott admits to Gateway mistakes
Too many agencies involved, says former deputy prime minister
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News
Prescott admits to Gateway mistakes
Too many agencies involved, says former deputy prime minister
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News
Hyder’s £7m buy
Hyder Consulting has bought £7m-turnover Australian consultant Crescent PSS for £3.4m.
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News
Balfour Beatty looks to the US as turnover hits £7.5bn
Contractor cites ‘unimaginably large’ growth potential and plans to grow turnover input to 40%
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News
3D turnover jumps
3D Architects has posted a 54% rise in turnover to £8.3m in the year to 30 April 2007.
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News
Kingspan grows 28%
Insulated panel specialist Kingspan has posted a 28% rise in turnover to £1.4bn in the year to 31 December 2007.
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News
Data — Planning applications, February 2008
Applications fall sharply in Wales and Midlands, but rise in Scotland, South-west, North and Midlands
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News
Redrow downbeat as 2008 sales slump by third
Redrow will be hit harder by the credit squeeze than its bigger rivals, according to the housebuilder’s chief executive.
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Features
The Building Good Employers Guide 2008
Last year, Building successfully launched the Good Employer Guide to showcase the very best companies to work for across the construction industry. With recruitment and retention ever more important, we are starting to compile our guide for 2008, and we would like you to participate.
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News
UK firms shortlisted to work on £11bn zero-carbon city
Foster + Partners’ Abu Dhabi project looks set to become world’s most sustainable city
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News
Keller’s turnover nears £1bn as it cuts 400 jobs at US arm
Groundwork specialist optimistic despite large-scale redundancies at Houston division
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News
Regeneration faces 680,000 shortfall in skilled workers
The construction industry is set to fall dramatically short of training the number of staff required to regenerate derelict sites by 2012, says the government.
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News
Construction firms in league table of slow payers
Carillion among the named and shamed in list of UK plcs that have payment delays
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Comment
Go Caroline!
Thanks to an astonishing lapse in security at the communities department, Chris Addison has obtained a first draft of a mailout from housing minister Caroline Flint, in which her inner thoughts are exposed