All Building articles in 6 June 2008 – Page 4
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Credit crunch brings back long working hours
Economic climate is forcing more employees to work over 48 hours a week again in sectors such as construction, warns TUC
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Housing slump deals blow to Welsh scheme
Redevelopment of listed former hospital in North Wales no longer viable because of falling housing market
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Countryside to slash build programme by third
Countryside Properties will this year cut its development programme in half in the North, according to chairman Alan Cherry, writes Joey Gardiner.
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NewsBrick giant shuts factories as housing market dries up
£2bn-turnover Wienerberger to axe 80 workers, close two plants and suspend work at others
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British firms to help rebuild after Chinese earthquake
Atkins, Arup and Davis Langdon are among companies drawing up plans for reconstruction effort
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UK body to advise New York after tower crane deaths
Strategic Forum offers ‘hand across the water’, as latest accident brings death toll to nine since March
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NewsBovis Homes threatens 90-day payments
Bovis Homes is imposing a 90-day payment schedule on subcontractors unless they agree to cut their prices.
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NewsOff their trolleys
The Competition Commission wants to make the Office of Fair Trading a statutory consultee on supermarket schemes – which is a splendid way to make regeneration even more difficult, says Jackie Sadek
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CommentSecret things
Another perilous descent into the turbid underworld of the industry’s psyche, where we discover Bouygues’ secret shame, spy on Sir Terry Farrell and make a surprising discovery in the underwear department
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NewsPointing the way
This £140m tower in central Croydon, designed by Rolfe Judd, has received planning permission.
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CommentMe and my pod
The podcast was fun. First of its kind here at Building. Rudi Klein and yours truly were interviewed by Building’s ace interviewer, Chloë McCulloch, about the government’s changes to payment rules.
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CommentOpen mike: Sun seeking
Instead of relying on small-scale on-site renewables, Europe could benefit from importing solar power from countries that have plenty of it, says David Weight
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The job's the thing
With reference to your consultants’ salary guide feature (16 May, page 42), you herald surveying as being “where the real money is”
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May Gurney results
Pre-tax profit at infrastructure and support services group May Gurney has risen 12% from £15.2m to £17m in the year to 31 March 2008.
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Lack of inspectors threatens green law
Industry leaders have warned of a “massive shortfall” in the number of assessors needed to implement the EU’s flagship environmental law in the UK, writes Stephen Kennett.
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QSs queue up for health framework
Cost consultants are preparing to apply for a framework to build 25 hospitals and 50 health clinics within the next five years.
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CommentWeb watch - In your face
If people want to build big horses in Kent towns or vast pylons in city squares, all in the name of art, then good luck to them, says Alex Smith. Of course, it helps that these schemes look good on the web too …
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NewsA nasty end
Phil Atkinson writes: “The pick-up was followed along the M25 for a couple of miles by two or three lorries, whose drivers would have been decapitated if they had stopped too late.”