All Building articles in 30 October 2009 – Page 4
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NewsBuilding and NES launch commercial EPC index
Initiative aims to tackle problem that 75% of commercial builds are illegally marketed without an EPC
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NewsWYG posts £129m loss but seals rescue deal with lenders
Engineering consultant makes massive writedowns, but secures its future with debt-for-equity swap
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Shoots without roots
Last Friday’s figures for Britain’s GDP confirmed that the economy is still in recession and although we will come out of it in the final quarter of 2009, construction will remain in recession
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News
Tories pledge ‘swifter’ planning
Bob Neill, the shadow planning minister, has signalled that there would be a “presumption in favour of development” on sites that otherwise met planning policy under the Tories
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Comment
No laughing matter
For some time I have been uneasy about the direction of your health and safety blunders
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NewsHouse party
Coop Himmelb(l)au’s design for the House of Music in Aalborg, Denmark, wraps a block of music, educational and performance spaces around a 1,300-seat symphonic concert hall
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NewsA home for Harry
A planning application has been submitted to Haringey council for a 56,250-seat stadium for Tottenham Hotspur
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NewsGilding Guildford
Guildford council has given the green light to an £11m library at the University of Surrey’s Stag Hill campus in the town
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Comment
Get over it
What is all the fuss about over these OFT fines (Hays fumes 2 October, page 10)?
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Comment
With friends like these …
Gillian Birkby (16 October, page 50) hits the nail on the head in berating public bodies for their unreasonably onerous appointment terms
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Features
Market forecast: Still a way to go
Despite signs of recession abating in some quarters, 2010 will remain tough for the building industry, particularly with public sector work likely to shrink
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Comment
She who laughs first …
I always find it interesting to read articles about women in construction (23 October, page 36)
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CommentHansom: Epic tales
Construction folk fight the good fight this week; they clash with an A-list celeb, stagger through hurricanes, take on insane safety regs and eat all the pies
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NewsManslaughter rules could ‘signal end’ for small firms
New guidelines recommend fining guilty firms a minimum of £500,000, irrespective of size
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NewsNot a pink elephant in sight
The £2.4bn regeneration of the Aylesbury estate at Elephant and Castle in Southwark, south London, has been the given the thumbs-up by the government’s planning inspector following an examination in public last month
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Comment
How do I... draft a letter of intent?
In the latest of our series on tackling your own legal affairs, Deborah Primett explains how to draft the ever popular, ever problematic letter of intent
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Comment
Legal costs: And you say we won?
As Costain vs Haswell shows, judges are using exact measures to work out who pays how much of the legal costs. The results should give a lot of litigants pause for thought
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Rhondda valley correction
On 14 August 2009 Building published an article entitled “£36m hospital asks M&E engineer to foot bill for faulty floors”