All Building articles in 21 May 2010 – Page 2
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NewsCrest gives Horizon three-week deadline
Horizon has three weeks to come up with an offer for Crest Nicholson according to reports
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NewsISG secures place on Lloyds' framework
Banking group keeps contractor on retail and commercial office framework for another two years
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NewsGalliford Try seals £600m Cambridgeshire BSF
Contractor reaches financial close on deal involving Equitix and the county council
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NewsBSS profits fall 24% in 'toughest year'
But materials firm reports strong start to 2010 and reveals plans to open 18 new branches
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NewsCow dung to power data centres
Hewlett-Packard is developing methane-powered data centres to be sited at dairy farms
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CommentSix billion pounds of spending cuts - and many more to come
This is just of foretaste of cuts we face in the June Budget and autumn spending review
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NewsChancellor to cancel £1.7bn of contracts
Cuts also to include £27m from Olympics Delivery Agency and £150m from Labour government’s housing pledge
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NewsNelson's ship docks at Trafalgar Square, in a bottle
New artwork by Yinka Shonibare succeeds Anthony Gormley’s latest on empty fourth plinth
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NewsExclusivity deal thwarts Crest Nicholson suitors
Bids for troubled housebuilder from array of potential buyers are blocked by Horizon agreement
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Ed Vaizey ousted from architecture role
Shock government move hands John Penrose brief despite Vaizey speech at RIBA this week
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NewsCostain and Skanska bag second Crossrail job
Pudding Mill Lane job similar in size to join venture’s £15m Royal Oak contract win
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Living the high life
Thanks to John Wood who took this photograph of a man with lofty aspirations while he was in Antwerp, Holland
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Nothing new
It’s interesting that the RICS has learned nothing from the past. I criticised the organisation years ago for not consulting its members or doing what was in the interests of its members (I resigned eventually after many attempts to influence failed) and it is still not doing what it should. ...
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Mitie turnover up
Outsourcing specialist Mitie has reported a strong increase in turnover, taking profits to £93m for the year ended 31 March 2010
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North Midland’s rise
Profit at contractor North Midland Construction rose by a third in the first quarter of 2010 to £600,000 on turnover of £38m
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FeaturesPositive thinking: Masdar HQ
The seven-storey Masdar Headquarters, under construction outside Abu Dhabi, will be the world’s first large building that generates more energy than it consumes
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Taken for Granted
I am concerned on behalf of the 400,000 homeless people in the UK, that the downgrading of this vital ministry from the Cabinet will result in little new action on behalf of the most vulnerable within our society (“Grant Shapps is housing minister”, 13 May, building.co.uk).
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CommentWhat’s going on?
The coalition has stated that it will review spending commitments made since January using its own value for money criteria, and it’s obvious that the £55bn earmarked for schools renewal is not going to survive this process unscathed
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