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NewsLaing O'Rourke shuts Gulf division after staff cull
Global payroll is cut by almost half as Middle East downturn forces contractor to close regional hub
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NewsGovernment to halt BSF projects within weeks
As pressure from contractors for clarity mounts, officials prepare formal announcement
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NewsSteelwork repairs hamper Shard progress
Mace’s deadline to build the Shard has come under renewed pressure after a key part of the 310m tall tower has had to be repaired
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NewsLend Lease prepares UK boardroom shake-up
Dan Labbad is to stamp his authority on Lend Lease’s UK business with a major management restructure
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Housing market slowing, says Halifax
Survey shows drop in house prices and 18% fall in sales compared to 2009
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NewsBLP launches sustainability tool
Software package is intended to simplify decision making at design stage
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NewsMoD prime contracts to be cut by £100m
Defence Estates to slash expenditure by reducing construction work to essential maintenance
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NewsBoyes Rees wins £3.5m Essex double
Cardiff firm bags contracts to build Royal Mail delivery office and Territorial Army cadet centre
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NewsHCA told to work up proposals for slimmed-down future
The Homes and Communities Agency has been told to work up a series of options for how it might be slimmed down to aid a ministerial decision about its future over the summer.
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NewsThe Siemens Pavilion: Going for green
Electronics firm Siemens has unveiled plans for a £30m conference and exhibition centre in London’s Docklands, which should be ready for the 2012 Olympics
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NewsCabe to call for single tough housing benchmark
Design quango wants standard, based on Building for Life, to be included in planning regulation
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NewsBank of Scotland abandons plan to sue over Silvertown
The bank which spent £60m and eight years working up plans for the £1.5bn development of Silvertown Quays in east London has withdrawn its threat to sue the London Development Agency over the termination of the scheme, Building understands.Two sources said Bank of Scotland, which had bankrolled developer SQL to ...
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FeaturesCracking Brazil
It’s hosting the 2014 World Cup, and the 2016 Olympics, and has emerged from the credit crunch with barely a scratch. So why aren’t more UK firms working there?
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NewsBaqus issues profit warning as public spending ‘disappears’
Listed QS Baqus has issued a profit warning as its public sector contracts dry up in the wake of the election
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Dubai property prices may fall 20%
Increase in supply blamed for rising vacancy rates in Middle East
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CommentUnfriendly fire
I write in relation to Chris Ryan’s comments in Wonders & Blunders (28 May, page 32) on Thomas Deacon Academy, of which I am a director
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Comment
Reasoning with the RICS
I note from last week’s issue (14 May, page 9) that you brought the QS Forum into what appears to be a growing row between the QS Professional Group within the RICS and the RICS itself. Your article asserts that the forum is set to hold “crunch talks” with RICS
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Comment
Save our stability
Preliminary statistics for the first quarter of 2010 show the number of Scottish construction firms becoming insolvent has doubled compared both with the last three months of 2009 and the same quarter last year
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Comment
Lack of meritocracy
I read with interest your article about work picking up in the South-east, particularly in the London region (building.co.uk, 20 May), but when I look at the range of jobs advertised, they appear to apply to surveyors or RICS-qualified people.I am wondering when I am going to get a job ...
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Comment
Crossrail solved
Surely a small tax on the major users of Crossrail - the banks - would adequately fill the foreseen funding gap (building.co.uk, 28 May)