All Building articles in 27 March 2009 – Page 5
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Comment
Figure it out
Re: ‘Colleges delayed’, 20 February, page 10, BAM Construction has 11 colleges currently at approval in design stage and waiting further substantial funding from the Learning and Skills Council
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CommentIn my expert opinion: How to pick an expert witness
Expert witnesses can make or break a case, so it’s vital to pick exactly the right (independent, knowledgeable and impressive) person for the job
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News
Jarvis drops freight
Jarvis has announced the closure of its freight container services business as a result of the recession
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CommentDon’t encourage them
As with the banking industry, we’ve seen an age where architectural incompetence and buffoonery was rewarded over professionalism
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NewsWomen in Property to tackle ‘male domination’ of Gulf
Networking and mentoring group to help women in Middle East challenge male-centred society
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Renew issues profit warning and cuts more jobs
Contractor issues profit warning and announces second round of job cuts
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Comment
Cut it out
I have just read your article “Robinson Low Francis slash staff pay 12.5%” (13 March, page 15)
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Features
Cost management: The new rules
After more than 80 years of using the standard method of measurement, the RICS is to publish comprehensive rules for calculating the cost of a whole project. Their author, David Benge, explains
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Last year’s inflation continues to push construction costs up
The cost of all types of construction work is still increasing year on year despite the downturn, research carried out for Building by cost consultant Davis Langdon has shown
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Two consortiums win Olympic plant hire contract
Two consortiums have been awarded licences to run two plant hire centres on the Olympic site in a bid to improve efficiency among contractors in the build-up to the 2012 games
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CommentClients: what are they like?
Which clients deserve a medal? Which should be shunned like yellow dogs?
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News
T Clarke turnover up
Electrical engineering and contracting firm T Clarke has reported a 64% rise in pre-tax profit from £8.2m to £13.4m in the year to 31 December 2008
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NewsCheering up Gravesend: Clifton Wharf, Kent
Clifton Wharf, a riverside regeneration project in Gravesend, Kent, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox has been given planning approval
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NewsGraduates should be given the chance to put education to use
Young people who’ve laboured to get an education must be given the chance to put it to use – for all our sakes, says Ray O’Rourke
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FeaturesSteel yourself: The Qatar National Convention Centre
Creating massive organic shapes out of metal is one thing. Getting them to support thousands of tonnes of structure is quite another. Thomas Lane reports on the building of the Qatar National Convention Centre
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FeaturesWe have to vs We can't: the Heathrow third runway debate
‘That runway will be built over my dead body. And i mean that literally’
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Four directors pull off Schofield Lothian buyout
Project management consultant Schofield Lothian has completed a management buyout from its £1bn-turnover parent company, Enterprise
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Bullock profit falls
Pre-tax profit at social housing contractor Bullock has fallen from £13.2m to £6.5m as a result of increased administrative charges, details of which were not revealed
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NewsBouygues UK reveals plan to buy repair firm
Bouygues UK has said it wants to buy a social housing repair and maintenance specialist by the end of the year