All Building articles in 28 August 2009 – Page 4
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Payments in Dubai: On the receiving end
Veterans of the Middle East will tell you that the region doesn’t play by the same rules as, say, Europe or North America
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Turnover drops at Rok
R&M firm Rok’s turnover fell by a third in the first half of the year after it scaled back new-build work
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Devon’s deadline: Perils of e-tendering
If a contractor has to submit an electronic tender by a certain deadline, what excuses can it offer if it’s a few minutes late? Well, as this case makes clear, there aren’t many …
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More job cuts feared following exodus of directors at DTZ
There has been an exodus of directors from property agent DTZ over the past month, Building has learned, as the company refused to rule out making redundancies
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Green guide misuse could steer zero-carbon housing off course
A guidance note is always open to personal interpretation
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Contractors warned on swine flu
Lawyers are warning contractors to review their construction contracts in preparation for a possible swine flu pandemic
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What consultation?
Are other readers, like me, disgusted and frustrated at the so-called consultation on Parts L and F of the Building Regulations
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Train drain: Impact of ConstructionSkills’ cutbacks
ConstructionSkills’ cutbacks could mean companies get 20% less in training grants than before, which is why it is important to be aware of all the changes
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Diversity in construction: transforming lives
If a job candidate isn’t white, male and able-bodied, the construction industry doesn’t seem to want to know them. So a training organisation called NET Ambitions is trying to get employers to diversify. Emily Wright talked to three people whose lives have been transformed
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Firms turn to debt collector as Dubai pay crisis deepens
Financial Solutions agency sees sevenfold jump in clients – who are chasing £7m in unpaid bills
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Gleeds drafted in to check Olympic fees paid to CLM
ODA brings in consultant to review delivery partner’s pay, after it earns £151m in year to March
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Centre of excellence
This HLM-designed secondary school in Bridgend, Wales, has secured planning consent
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Carbon countdown: How can the UK make the step change required for zero carbon?
Whether you like it or not, the Government’s 2016 target for all new homes to be built to Code Level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) is set to remain
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How lower rental income will hit build programmes
Housing associations’ rental income may be about to drop by up to £260m
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My Dubai hell: David Marks breaks the silence on payment problems
Many UK firms are owed money by Middle Eastern developers, but few are willing to talk about it. Roxane McMeeken spoke to one man who was prepared to break the silence
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Mixed picture for Bovis
Bovis Homes has posted a first half loss of £8.6m, but benefited from a surge in private reservations
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Lockerbie release boosts UK firms
The return to Libya of a man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is expected to improve business for British construction firms in the north African country
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Boost for Brum
Birmingham council has reached financial close on the first stage of the city’s £2.4bn Building Schools for the Future programme with Catalyst Lend Lease and Building Schools for the Future Investments