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Mears buys 3C
Social housing repair and maintenance contractor Mears has bought 3C Asset Management, the company formerly known as Erinaceous Property Management, for £12.5m.
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Building buys a pint … for Structure Tone
It’s a tentative start to the evening. The downstairs bar in Smiths of Smithfield is mysteriously shut. There’s an organic beer tasting event upstairs but by the looks on everyone’s faces that’s a non-starter
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CommentThe audacity of Hansom
Inspired by inaugural events across the pond, we indulge in some gentle globetrotting and encounter a failed QS in China, a cement protest in Greece and a lone Hungarian in the Middle East
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FeaturesVince Cable: 'This industry could collapse'
When the person who says this is Vince Cable, a man with a gift for eerily accurate economic predictions, you know things are serious
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CommentSuds law: Limiting adjudication materials
You can throw anything you want at an argument in an adjudication – even the kitchen sink – but it won’t wash if you don’t give the other side time to consider it
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On the safe side: Corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences
Fears about the vagueness and leniency of health and safety and corporate manslaughter laws have been assuaged by two new pieces of legislation
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CommentDo we still need Minter?: Late payments act
The Late Payments Act compensates companies for the costs they incur while waiting for their money, so we may be able to say goodbye to an old bit of case law
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NewsAbu Dhabi investor reviews UK projects
The head of Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, which owns the Excel centre in London, has travelled to the UK to review its projects
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Latest construction appointments - 30 January 2009
John McAslan + Partners has appointed Pauline Nee head of historic buildings
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Confusion over Scottish EPCs
The introduction of energy performance certificates in Scotland has been thrown into confusion after it emerged that separate government-backed energy rating software can produce radically different results for the same building
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NewsDelivering energy infrastructure
Energy minister Mike O’Brien will be among 19 keynote speakers at Building’s Delivering Energy Infrastructure conference next month
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FeaturesPlanning: what's happened to section 106?
Affordable housing, roads, health facilities, schools, even public art – all these were paid for out of developers’ section 106 contributions. But that was in the good times. Now the well’s run dry and the question everyone is asking is: where’s the money going to come from?
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CityWatch: A bad week to be in Barratt’s boots
This was the week that Barratt went into administration – the shoe shop, that is.
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Forever bursting bubbles
I was interested to read Gideon Amos’ latest defence of the government’s eco-towns programme (16 January, page 30). However, I fear history will view this initiative as being merely the froth on the top of the last housing market bubble: not amounting to much now that the bubble has burst
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CommentThe passiv approach
There is always so much we can achieve by “doing the simple things well” – it’s a widely used sentiment and it’s nearly always true
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An even-handed approach
The article Sheep vs Grass (16 January, page 42) was a lovely idea, and a simple, clear list of green duds and gems would be great.
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Parental concern
Nick Raynsford (16 January, page 30) you says he is upset with “misleading and pejorative media coverage”. I suspect that most of the upset is with “media coverage” of any kind. The John Roan proposition is flawed and coverage simply exposes the things that you (my MP) and Greenwich council ...
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A little local thinking
The item concerning MPs’ call to local authorities to make better use of planning agreements to secure jobs for local people (23 January, page 23) may run into problems