All ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø articles in 15 October 2010 – Page 5
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How SMEs cut carbon: Best foot forward
SMEs have a vital role to play in helping the UK meet its carbon reduction targets. So they’d better be ready for the challenge, says Kristina Smith, because more and more clients are relying on these firms to help them shrink their carbon footprint
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Belfast's new troubles
Regarding the planned spending cuts in Northern Ireland, if ministers would get some sort of PPP in place to fill the public sector funding void, privatise water and other public bodies and sort out the planning system, the cuts would not be so severe
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Ucatt cries ‘bias’ in election ballot probe
Union complains about investigation into election of general secretary Alan Ritchie
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Comprehensive Spending Review: Brace yourself for bad news
Kier topped our monthly business barometer chart thanks to contracts worth £160m. This time last year it was also in the lead, but then its haul was £660m
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Speedy Hire hit by bad debt
Plant hire group Speedy Hire is set to lose £1.7m because the collapse of Connaught has left it with debts that are unlikely to be paid and equipment that will not be recovered
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Credit crunch returns as lenders turn away buyers
Redrow’s Steve Morgan warns of ’nosedive’ as lending falls and tighter mortgage rules loom
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McClay Library wins RICS award
Shepley Bulfinch-designed library at Queen’s University in Belfast wins sustainability award
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Aukett to end year debt-free
Listed architect Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has announced that it expects to have eliminated its debt of £1.4m when it reveals its end-of-year results
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Shepherd plans London assault
Richard Vining, the new chief executive of Shepherd Construction, has announced that the company will open a central London office to boost its position as a national contractor
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DJ Deloitte sets up QS arm
The former head of Davis Langdon’s commercial sector surveying team will head a new cost consultancy division at Drivers Jonas Deloitte (DJD)
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Arena Stage, Washington by Bing Thom: Through a glass darkly
Peer closely and you’ll make out not one theatre behind that glass facade, but three. It’s Bing Thom Architects’ audacious response to the need to make artistic and architectural sense of two dysfunctional theatres in a deprived area of Washington DC. Ike Ijeh was wowed
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Hill wins APWA award for Californian project
Consultant’s work for South Bonnyview Road Widening project named 2010 Project of the Year
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Academy award
Willmott Dixon has signed a £25.7m contract with Northamptonshire council for the 1,100-place Kettering Science Academy.
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Government to enforce 30-day payment period
The government is to make 30-day payment periods compulsory in order to enforce prompt payment to subcontractors.
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Comment
A decade on from PPC2000: Carry on partnering
A decade after it was written, a review of PPC2000 shows that it really does pay to partner, no matter how chilly the economic weather is becoming
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ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Intelligence Q2 2010: Surprisingly buoyant
The gloomy forecast in the Tracker is in stark contrast to a surprisingly buoyant second quarter. Now, the good news, from Experian Marketing Information Services
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Barratt boss pockets £568k bonus despite firm’s £163m loss
The total pay package of Mark Clare, Barratt’s chief executive, shot up by more than two-thirds this year, despite the firm making a £163m loss.
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Galliard reports £16m loss despite 50% rise in turnover
Galliard Homes’ pre-tax loss fell to £16.8m in 2009, on turnover up more than 50%, according to accounts posted this week
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Latest construction appointments: 15 October 2010
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services has appointed John Sharp as the company’s business services director.
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Grosvenor framework saves 10% on £250m pipeline
Four-strong team will handle all construction work across 120ha Mayfair and Belgravia portfolio