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NewsSafer Skyline campaign: crackdown on cranes
Building's latest campaign calls on industry to clean up its act
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NewsPre-tax profit leaps 26% at T&T
Pre-tax profit at consultant Turner & Townsend (T&T) has leaped 26% from £12.5m to £15.7m for the year ending April 2006.
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NewsKen Makes over his old home town
Architect Ken Shuttleworth unveils proposals for mixed-use Birmingham scheme
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NewsUS contractor wins UK’s biggest fit-out job of 2007
StructureTone set to crack top-end UK fit-out market with Willis Building in the City
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NewsBig game Hunter
Making the news Sir Tom Hunter is the media-shy multimillionaire out to capture Crest Nicholson
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Structures
In our latest specialist update, the experts from Gardiner & Theobald outline lead times, costs and the issues most likely to cause sleepless nights for the piling, concrete frame and structural steelwork sectors
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The military philosophers
The Ministry of Defence likes PFI procurement but prefers to do it differently to the rest of Whitehall. Things will start to change in August, however, so contractors had best take account of the latest thinking ...
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CommentMind the GAAP
TAX TIPS - The ripple effect of the Enron scandal is affecting accountancy standards in the UK, and will result in some companies showing higher returns – and possibly paying more tax
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CommentTell us where it hurts
Open mike The government’s push for large framework deals is proving costly for smaller firms. So a new Strategic Forum survey aims to find out how bad it’s getting.
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Developers ‘face uncertain year’
Developers are facing an unpredictable year despite the recovery in the commercial market.
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De Kieviet’s gambit
Company focus BuildOnline has just merged with a US rival – and now it’s going global
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FeaturesDry stone flooring
Stanhope was sick of waiting around for screed to dry, so it asked some suppliers to work out a way of doing without it. Thomas Lane kicks off a flooring special by explaining how they did just that.
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What to specify: flooring
Everything you could possibly want to do to a floor is covered this week, from laying it, carpeting it, heating it, colouring it and protecting it, to fixing balconies and inserting sockets into it.
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What to remember: Floor screed
Don’t want to lay your fancy finish on that bumpy, lumpy sub-floor? You need a decent screed – but there’s more to applying one than mixing cement and sand, says Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg
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FeaturesDome improvements
WHO FITS IT - Mark Holden of 4m tells Building about the intricacies of laying down resin flooring in the Millennium Dome
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FeaturesSporting chance
WHO MAKES IT - Gerflor’s French staff were sick as parrots when London won the 2012 Olympics. But the UK office was over the moon – it had big plans to supply floors to the new arenas.
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in December 2006
This month’s data from the NHBC
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Start at home
The lack of impact of the RICS’ campaign against the government’s restrictions on QSs coming to work in Britain shouldn’t really come as a surprise (“RICS frustrated by failure of visa campaign”, 5 January, page 14).
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No move to east London
A postscript to the article “Foster consortium set to bid for Olympic media centre” (5 January, page 11) implies that the proposal to move some key departments and channels to Salford may not happen.