All Building articles in 27 February 2009 – Page 6
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Comment
Stace buys a pint … for Building
It’s Tuesday afternoon, and I’m outside the Flying Horse as dusk falls wondering where all these old men in beige overcoats have come from
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Features
Government spending: what Gordon Brown won't be doing for you
Delays to parts of the Learning and Skills Council’s £5bn college building programme could stretch for up to a year
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News
Rivals set to challenge BREEAM
BRE could lose its monopoly on the energy ratings market for non-domestic buildings if plans due to be unveiled next week are implemented
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Comment
Break it up! How to deal with dispute
At a time when disputes are becoming all too common it’s vital to know how to manage them without destroying your company
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News
Bovis won’t have monopoly on Olympic village
Lend Lease has opened a tendering process for the £900m Olympic village that could result in the main rivals to subsidiary Bovis Lend Lease capturing a large amount of the work
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Comment
The sayings of Bernard Cribbins
We’re back in the seventies… the decade of endless teabreaks, sclerotic roads and paralysed government – as portrayed in the work of a certain popular actor
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News
Barratt bank covenants safe – unless there’s a meltdown
Housebuilder is confident it will not break agreements on £1.4bn debt as sales edge upwards
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Balfour up for games
Balfour Beatty replaces Mace on bidding team for 2014 Commonwealth Games village in Glasgow
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Comment
Can I have my money back? Claiming back failed tender costs
Money matters: Losing bidders may now be tempted to claim compensation if tender processes are not conducted fairly. But proving it can be tricky
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News
Viñoly’s glass chimney axed from Battersea design
Developer caves in to demands to abandon plans for 300m-tall sustainable structure
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Out of credit: how the banks took away the industry’s overdrafts
As a new report reveals that construction has had more credit withdrawn than any other sector, Tom Bill looks at the likely consequences
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Features
Underground, overground: the ICE award winners
From tunnels under the Thames to tree-top walks in Kew, London was the scene of some impressive feats of civil engineering in 2008. Yesterday, the ICE celebrated the best of them
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Comment
Kissing goodbye to your money? Creditors voluntary arrangements
Tony Bingham Your contractor wins an adjudication award but is subject to a creditors’ voluntary arrangement. You intend to take the case to arbitration. Do you pay up in the meantime?
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News
Ucatt and ConstructionSkills clash over apprenticeships
Apprenticeship Week marred by union claim that part-time training will ‘undermine government efforts’
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Lords save payment bond amendment
Two members of the House of Lords have agreed to take up amendments to the Construction Bill that were dropped in the wake of the scandal over cash for influence
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Siza takes RIBA gold medal and predicts new golden age
Renowned Portuguese architect says downturn will end ‘consumerist’ building design
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Calls to redundancy advice line soar as SMEs struggle
A record number of calls were made last month to the National Federation of Builders for help with issues such as redundancy
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Are you stuck in one-way traffic? Liquidated damages and the Construction Act
Rupert Choat Developers can’t rely on the Construction Act when they claim liquidated damages, but the contractor can when it reclaims them. How unfair!
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Shard developer tells Mace to finish by May 2012
The developer of the Shard has told Mace that it expects practical completion of the building by May 2012
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in January 2009
The future may still look grim for housebuilding, but sales were slightly higher than in December