All ڶ articles in 05 November 2010 – Page 3
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Mouchel pays heavily for public sector involvement
Analysts predict two more years of suppressed profit as cuts to road schemes bite
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Hansom: For one week only!
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
The architect juggles his career as an architect and an emerging shoe designer
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The home front
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
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Standardised prequalification form: Save while you slave
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…
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Paul Morrell's first year at Whitehall: Paul's plan
The government’s construction advisor has been in the job for a year - we take stock
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Styles predicts sales fall
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
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 ...
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Will I win?: Early neutral evaluation
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
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
“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
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
Tenant could have right to demand that landlords make energy efficiency improvements from 2015 onwards
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Features
Dave Sheridan: His friends in the north
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
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
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
Carillion and Norland among facilities management firms asking supply chain for money back
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Collaborative law: A new use for lawyers
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
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
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
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