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CommentClose shaves
While Willmott Dixon employees escape with their jobs, Make’s staff avoid being crushed by a steel tree and Gordon Brown dodges Mandarin quantity surveying manuals
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Every cloud
I read your piece “Construction firms will take credit crunch hit in 2008” (11 January, page 20) with interest. It claimed insolvencies across all industries are set to rise 8.3% to 13,492 next year, with construction singled out as one of the biggest casualties.
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CommentThe QS and the cockroach
As a loud and proud QS I have been reading about the imminent demise of our noble art for as long as I can remember.
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Nuclear clear-up
Contrary to the impression given in your quote from me in the article “The path to power” (18 January, page 28), the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and I are very clear about our policy on nuclear power.
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Cutting the atom down to size
Oh dear, two energy-related errors in the 11 January issue. First, kWh is a unit of energy while kW is a unit of power, not vice versa (page 75).
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Going for green
The news that the Olympic Delivery Authority’s business network will help companies across the UK compete for London 2012 business opportunities is a welcome announcement.
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Playing a risky game
I note every week the array of pictures sent in by vigilant readers detailing clear health and safety breaches seen on building sites, often in this country.
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Sharp slide in profit at Wolseley with more bad news on the way
Pre-tax profit at Wolseley, the materials producer, fell by a third in the five months to the end of December as a result of the global credit crunch.
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RSK buys Building Service
Environmental consultant RSK Group has bought building envelope and testing specialist Building Sciences.
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Carillion green light
Most of Alfred McAlpine’s shareholders have approved the £572m takeover by Carillion.
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On the move
Turner & Townsend managing director Bruce McAra has said the company’s flotation will take place in February or March despite the recent downturn in the stock market.
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Healthy results
Turnover at Multibuild has increased 16% to £71.2m in the 12 months to 30 September 2007.
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Before the storm
The Council of Mortgage Lenders said 2007 was the strongest ever for gross mortgage lending, reaching about £362bn, an increase of 5% from £345bn in 2006.
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Turn to Europe
McBains Cooper has appointed Campbell Devine as head of European consulting to raise the firm’s profile with a variety of projects in the commercial and hotel sectors.
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NewsLatest figures show suddenness of housing market fall
Housing tracker … but Weston Homes and Bellway made most hay when the sun shone
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NewsHousing stats: New-build sales and completions in December 2007
Those December figures in full … the slump in the private sector is offset slightly by social housing
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HOK poaches Skanska man
Architect appoints PFI expert James Berry as second-in-command in the UK
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Mitie’s bank job
Mitie has won a £7.5m contract to fit out 70,000ft2 of office space at the Bank of Ireland’s headquarters at Bow Bells House in the City of London.
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Lovell in Norfolk
Affordable housing specialist Lovell is to start work next month on a £4m housing scheme in Norfolk for housing group Circle Anglia.