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NewsShapps delays definition of zero carbon
Housing minister Grant Shapps has been forced to row back from a pre-election promise to get the definition of zero carbon finalised “within weeks” of getting into office
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Officials covered up £705m Part L saving
Civil servants covered up potential savings of £705m in order to help former housing minister John Healey justify scrapping proposed changes to Building Regulations that were designed to make existing homes more energy efficient
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NewsWSP: UK firms must go abroad for bulk of work
Chris Cole, the chief executive of consulting engineer WSP, has warned that UK consultants will do more business overseas than in the UK within two years owing to the shrinking domestic market
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T&T seeks companies for Uganda PPP
Turner & Townsend is seeking contractors and architects to work on Uganda’s first PPP - a £350m upgrade of the country’s police estate
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Jamie Cullum to headline industry charity bash
Singer Jamie Cullum, supported by Diversity, the group that won Britain’s Got Talent last year, will headline this year’s Alliance Ball.
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Correction
Building would like to clarify that Tracy Wright, quoted in the Hays Construction & Property international salary survey feature (“Foreign Offices”,23 July, page 34), works for Digby Morris, and not Hays, as suggested in the display copy.
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Guess x estimate
Dare I suggest that your article on SAP has the world upside-down (23 July, page 22)?The science world has only the vaguest quantitative measure of global warming and the contribution to it of carbon dioxide; the possible contribution of the UK to making a change in this is swamped by ...
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Commit to low carbon
Given the continuing delays to the Renewable Heating Incentive (16 July, page 13) and the recent announcement of funding cuts for low-carbon technology, we could be forgiven for thinking the government has lost its conviction in the fight against climate change
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Miller Group
I refer to your article “Breaking the shackles” (23 July, page 16), which includes Miller Group in a list of refinanced housebuilders, all of whom, with the exception of Miller Group, are majority owned or controlled by Lloyds Banking Group
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Take our advice
Your leader on the government’s health reforms and clients’ need for solid advice struck a chord with us (16 July, page 3)
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Q+A from the Building forum
Building’s Forum members will offer advice on all sorts of dilemmas
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FeaturesCost model: Part L
The upcoming changes to Part L will crank up the low-carbon agenda. The authors consider the costs and their influence on design
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NewsVinci to replace Kier on £10m Heathrow T3 refurb
Contractor is replaced ’by mutual consent’ with BAA after project ’not delivered as hoped’
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East Anglia’s green energy centre falls three months behind
An “exemplar” biomass energy centre at the University of East Anglia, built by Morgan Sindall, is three months late in becoming operational
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NewsPFI deal signed for £50m Central Library in Liverpool: Library fine
A £50m PFI deal to renovate the Central Library in Liverpool was signed this week, following four years of planning. The 150-year-old building has now closed while the work is carried out by contractor Shepherd along with Amber Infrastructure.The architect on the scheme is Austin-Smith:Lord. The library is scheduled to ...
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FeaturesUnder floor building services: ground control
An M&E contractor on a south London civic centre project has come up with a neat way of packaging all the services together at floor level. Stephen Kennett gets down to the detail
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Newswetroom floors
Concealed wet floor shower tray manufacturer On The Level has introduced a system for creating wetroom floors using larger tile formats