All Building articles in 26 April 2013 – Page 2
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The future is BIM
This year’s BIM Show Live shows that the industry is embracing BIM – but the challenge lies in understanding what information is important
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Energy firms investigated for missing carbon targets
Half of the big six energy firms fail to meet all of their legally binding energy efficiency targets
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Balfour Beatty banks £58.5m from PFI asset sales
Contractor says it will reinvest cash in target regions and markets
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Hub airport unnecessary, says London Assembly
Body contradicts London mayor by saying existing capacity should be better used
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Costain’s £123m M6 job faces legal challenge
Campaigners argue government’s decision to grant planning permission to the £123m M6 link road was flawed
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Willmott Dixon wins £22m retirement village
Firm to repeat its work on Denham Garden Village in Buckinghamshire at new site in Hampshire
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Vinci wins first phase of £450m Swansea campus
Contractor to build student apartments and academic space
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Legal case against £275m incinerator defeated
Spanish contractor FCC to build scheme in Buckinghamshire that will generate 22mw of electricity
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Crest Nicholson wins £600m barracks job
Housebuilder Crest Nicholson appointed to Aborfield Garrison scheme by Ministry of Defence
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Plans for UK's biggest Passivhaus development unveiled
Scheme would entail 150 homes being built in rural village in Herefordshire
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Austin-Smith:Lord revenue falls 40%
Financially-troubled architect reports drop in business after problem project in Abu Dhabi but cuts losses
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My working day: James McArdell, Faithful+Gould
James McArdell on his path to becoming a graduate QS, the great outdoors in Wales and the ins and outs of forecasting costs
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Rowecord Engineering in administration
One of the UK’s largest steelwork contractors falls into administration, with 430 jobs set to go
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Infrastructure plan 'just a long list of expensive projects'
Public Accounts Committee says government’s national infrastructure plan lacks clear priorities and a strategic vision
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Scotland funds offshore wind development
Scottish government boosts sector with £15m to develop new foundation designs
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Bam frontrunner for £150m Saatchi job
Exclusive: Bam secures pre-construction role on Derwent’s redevelopment of the former Saatchi Saatchi office building in London
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Kier-May Gurney: A good deal?
Building’s assistant editor Joey Gardiner on the Kier’s proposed takeover of May Gurney
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Stop kicking up a fuss
The lawyers in this case raised a number of clever, interesting technical objections. Which were quite rightly dismissed. Let’s just stick to the facts, eh?
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Permitted development work will not help
Eric is getting in a right pickle (Pickles promises to revise home extensions plan, www.building.co.uk, 16 April 2013). This is a piece of ill thought-out legislation, which will not create more work for the building trade and will just cause a lot of neighbour disputes. There are already too many ...