All Building articles in 26 April 2013 – Page 3
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NewsEight-month delay to £600m government framework
Exclusive: Firms face uncertainty as retendering for one of the largest public sector frameworks for consultants delayed
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NewsPlas Newydd: All hands to the pump
National Trust property in Wales is part of £35m green retrofit pilot scheme
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CommentGreen rating systems: Bespoke solutions needed
An assessment of the problems with green building rating systems following last week’s feature article
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CommentDoing business in Iraq: Tread carefully
A decade after the invasion of Iraq there are opportunities for UK firms in the country’s infrastructure sector. But they must be aware of the legal framework they will be working in
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CommentDownward spiral continues with Osborne
The chancellor is to blame for blocking the industry’s recovery
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CommentPermitted 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 ...
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CommentStop 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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CommentKier-May Gurney: A good deal?
Building’s assistant editor Joey Gardiner on the Kier’s proposed takeover of May Gurney
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NewsBam 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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NewsScotland funds offshore wind development
Scottish government boosts sector with £15m to develop new foundation designs
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NewsInfrastructure 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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NewsRowecord Engineering in administration
One of the UK’s largest steelwork contractors falls into administration, with 430 jobs set to go
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CommentMy 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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NewsAustin-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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NewsPlans for UK's biggest Passivhaus development unveiled
Scheme would entail 150 homes being built in rural village in Herefordshire
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NewsCrest Nicholson wins £600m barracks job
Housebuilder Crest Nicholson appointed to Aborfield Garrison scheme by Ministry of Defence
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NewsLegal case against £275m incinerator defeated
Spanish contractor FCC to build scheme in Buckinghamshire that will generate 22mw of electricity
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NewsVinci wins first phase of £450m Swansea campus
Contractor to build student apartments and academic space
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NewsWillmott Dixon wins £22m retirement village
Firm to repeat its work on Denham Garden Village in Buckinghamshire at new site in Hampshire