All ڶ articles in 05 November 2010 – Page 3

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    Mouchel pays heavily for public sector involvement

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Analysts predict two more years of suppressed profit as cuts to road schemes bite

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    Hansom: For one week only!

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Roll up, roll up … see the strong man lift the BSF bid document using only two transit vans! See Mr Memory forget his own policies! And, of course, we have beautiful buildings … totally nude!

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    Short and tweet: Julian Hakes

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The architect juggles his career as an architect and an emerging shoe designer

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    The home front

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Nick Raynsford If public indignation at the coalition’s housing policies were not enough to demonstrate their unpopularity, the doubts of backbenchers within the ruling parties should be

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    Standardised prequalification form: Save while you slave

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The coalition has a bright idea to save you billions of pounds on procurement. It’s a form called PAS91 and it’ll only take a couple of weeks to fill in…

  • Tom Broughton
    Comment

    Paul Morrell's first year at Whitehall: Paul's plan

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The government’s construction advisor has been in the job for a year - we take stock

  • News

    Styles predicts sales fall

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Styles & Wood has said it expects to see a sharp decline in its revenue when it releases its annual results at the end of the year.

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    Extreme mowing

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Nick Rhodes, of Oxfordshire housing association Sovereign Vale, sent in this photograph taken by one of his tenants. “This is a novel way to cut the top of a hedge,” he says.Email your “favourite” health and safety pictures to building@ubm.com or upload them to the ڶ Network at network.building.co.uk. The ...

  • Robert Akenehad
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    Will I win?: Early neutral evaluation

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    If only there were some way of finding out if you were going to win your case before you spent £200,000 on it. Well, actually, there is something rather like that …

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    Speedy sets up new division to ease move out of plant hire

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Tool hire firm Speedy has created a consultancy division to advise on site waste management, sustainability and health and safety, which will grow to “several hundred” over the next few years.

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    My digital life: Darren Shirley

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    “What’s on your iPod?” iPod, get with it daddy-O. iPods are for luddites

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    Government to take ‘obstructions’ out of developers’ path

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Construction minister Mark Prisk has said the government will reduce the number of hoops that developers must jump through before beginning construction

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    Green Deal to force landlords to upgrade homes

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Tenant could have right to demand that landlords make energy efficiency improvements from 2015 onwards

  • Dave Sheridan
    Features

    Dave Sheridan: His friends in the north

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    A year ago Dave Sheridan suddenly found himself thrust to the top of property services group, Apollo. Once he’d got over the shock he set out on a high-risk strategy of shifting the business away from London to the northern regions

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    Royal coup

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Foster + Partners is to design its first project in Luxembourg after winning an international competition in the grand duchy

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    Cost model update: small projects

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The recent changes to Part L could add up to 8% to the capital cost of building, says David Holmes of Davis Langdon. This is what that will mean for primary schools, social housing and small industrial units

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    FM contractors demand rebates from suppliers

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Carillion and Norland among facilities management firms asking supply chain for money back

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    Collaborative law: A new use for lawyers

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    US family lawyers have devised a dispute resolution method - collaborative law - that rethinks the roles played by clients’ legal advisers. Now it’s being used in commercial disputes

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    Prince’s Foundation clashes with RIBA on design reviews

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Battle to take over Cabe’s job hots up as architects claim foundation would be ’entirely inappropriate’

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    City watch: Here comes the cavalry

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Mouchel was not the only company that wavered on the market this week - Serco suffered a blip after it tried to pass on a government price squeeze to suppliers and was humiliatingly forced to apologise for it after pressure from Francis Maude