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NewsBovis Homes directors waive cash bonus
Housebuilder’s bosses surrender controversial cash payments in favour of share payouts
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NewsBalfour Beatty wins £47m North West fire contract
Contractor confirmed as preferred bidder for contract to upgrade 16 fire stations
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NewsMajority call for EPCs in smaller public buildings
Response to EPBD proposals reveal support for display of energy certificates in buildings as small as 250sq m
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NewsClapham gets a makeover
Studio Egret West has designed a 12-storey building in south London to be built by United House
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Comment
Explanations on why the jobs figures and output figures don’t seem to match
The Office of National Statistics has released an article that throws some light on the figures for construction jobs.I for one have been rather confounded by the construction jobs figures which seem to have understated the devastation on the ground, particularly in the wake of the collapse in house building.Indeed ...
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Comment
Joy deferred as CIPS shows construction activity grows for first time in two years
So the construction activity indicator produced by the buyers’ body CIPS finally points to growth after two years of measuring falling workloads. But this seemingly uplifting moment appears to have brought little joy.The March figure popped its head above the 50 no-change mark on the back of rising activity in ...
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NewsStarting your own business, part 16: The cashflow challenge
As your firm grows you need more capital to sustain it, which may mean having to be in debt to the bank for a time
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FeaturesStructural Eurocodes: A lowdown
From 1 April all public funded projects must be designed to the Eurocodes standard, which means large and small firms should be aware of their implications
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NewsBleak and tortured: Kapoor's Orbit is hardly an Olympic ideal
The widely panned sculpture's biggest flaw is its lack of meaning
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NewsTransforming lives
A new trust hopes to help school children take full advantage of the educational, creative and sporting facilities Building Schools for the Future will create for them
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NewsRider Levett Bucknall wins top employer award
Consultant has been hailed as Britain’s top employer by Corporate Research Foundation and The Daily Telegraph
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NewsCapita project manages £12.7m leisure centre
Consultant completes external work on the Darwen Leisure Centre in Lancashire
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NewsWYG is QS and project manager on Surrey school refurb
Sustainability at the forefront of the £2m scheme at Ashley Church of England Primary School
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Shanghai International Cruise Terminal
Architecture students Rachel Harding and Jo Parsons comment on the Sparch-designed building
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NewsMaking mischief
Director at Knowles questions if the amendments to the Construction Act will in practice achieve one of the stated intentions of the bill during the consultation process to make ineffective the use of ‘Tolent clauses’
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NewsChandlerKBS announces promotion
As associate, Ulf Oebius will continue to manage the Paris accounts
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NewsTrench Farrow is project manager on Merton’s super schools
The project management arm of WYG will work on an £8m project to transform four schools
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NewsEC Harris receives APM Accreditation
Consultant is the first built asset consultant to be awarded the European accreditation
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NewsEver vigilant
You know those metal discs that sometimes appear right in the middle of the road? It turns out they’re even more dangerous than we thought! Thanks to Nick Dodd for this one