All Building articles in 6 March 2009 – Page 4
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NewsGreen for go: sustainability in the JCT contract
Keeping an eye on sustainability during the credit crunch shouldn't be too hard, with the help of the JCT's new guidance note
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NewsWolseley plans £1bn rights issue as profits plunge
Banks make new overdraft deal on its £2.48bn debt-pile conditional on raising cash from investors
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NewsOver 40 construction firms used illegal blacklist
Firms including Balfour Beatty and Laing O'Rourke paid annual fee of £3,000 to obtain sensitive information on workers
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NewsRevealed: the construction firms who used worker blacklist
Some of the biggest names in construction used illegal blacklist to vet potential workers
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Comment
Words of warning
I attended an interview yesterday to train as a domestic energy assessor (DEA), which I thought was new career with great potential
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CommentWoolly thinking
I read with interest your article on the 16 January titled “five green duds”
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NewsIf they sue, will they win?
If the contract doesn’t help them, Bellway Homes’ customers will find it difficult to prove their case
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Soaring to victory
Engineer Buro Happold and Explorations Architecture have won the design competition for a new foot and cycle bridge over the River Soar in Leicester
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NewsZaha rising
Watson Steel is near to completing the skeleton of Zaha Hadid’s Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow
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NewsA visit to the queen
Plans for an underwater museum in Alexandria have been given the go-ahead by the Egyptian government
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T&T's purchase
Consultant Turner & Townsend has acquired American construction cost management firm Busby & Associates for an undisclosed sum, taking its US presence to five offices and 130 staff
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NewsTreasury PFI rescue plan could pay out within weeks
Government hopes to begin making loans next month to up to £13bn of struggling schemes
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NewsTreasury was planning PFI rescue for six months
The government knew six months ago that it was likely to have to intervene in the PFI markets to avoid damaging delays, the man behind the multi-billion pound rescue package has admitted
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NewsA thousand and one lights
More than 1,000 lights have been installed in the atrium of Tower 42 in Bishopsgate in the City of London as part of a refurbishment
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NewsLife planning
This £8.2m community centre in Sutton, south London, has received planning permission
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NewsTee on the lawn
Grimshaw has designed a $95m (£67m) golf course on top of a water filtration plant in New York
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Comment
I know where you could start
Open mike: The government is pretty keen to get us to cut carbon emissions. So why are its own buildings so lamentably unsustainable?
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Keller: No upturn this year
The chief executive of groundworks specialist Keller, has said government stimulus packages will only begin to benefit construction firms “well into 2010”
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Comment
Local jobs for whom?
We have a small building business in Waltham Forest, which is about four miles north-east of the Olympic site. We have been in the area for the past 27 years and we employ about 29 men