All Building articles in 17 July 2015 – Page 3
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Features
This week in 2010
The 2010 Top 150 Contractors and Housebuilders tables show solid ground may finally be in sight
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Top 150 contractors: Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow
This year’s contractors and housebuilders Top 150 list shows the sector pulling out of recession and with a spring in its step. But with big losses for some contractors pushing down profits, and margins increasing by a mere 1.2%, the danger remains they could still fall flat on their backs. ...
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News
Keepmoat wins £18m Aberdeen refurb project
City council appoint Keepmoat to overhaul seven towers in city in two-year deal
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Shaftesbury win planning for Chinatown scheme
West End developer to reconfigure retail and refurbish block in Chinatown in advance of Crossrail opening
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Barclays hits back at HPF in £5.7m court battle
Barclays has hit back at consultant Hurley Palmer Flatt in the firms’ ongoing High Court battle
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Comment
Levelling the playing field
The first moves are being made to harmonise energy ratings for all non-residential buildings across the EU
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Features
Network fail?
Network Rail is a huge client for the UK construction industry but with the Department for Transport increasingly frustrated by engineering overruns, can chief executive Mark Carne safeguard the company’s future?
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Comment
Online poll: Zero carbon target
Is the government right to abandon its target for all new homes to be zero carbon by 2016? Vote here
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Features
Economics: Market forecast
Revised figures for Q1 2015 saw market pricing volatility increase, with a project’s attractiveness playing a crucial role in this current trend. Michael Hubbard of Aecom reports
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Housing Design Awards 2015: Winners
This year’s Housing Design Awards show that the sector’s return to strength has brought with it bold and experimental design, with council housing and housing for older people in particular taking some unexpected forms
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Comment
Planning’s not the problem
Despite the chorus of approval these measures will do little to boost supply of homes in the short term
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News
Planning reforms ‘won’t deliver’ more homes
Government measures will give developers new brownfield permissions, but fail to address lack of resources
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£700k Skanska grant heralds invasion of green robots
Research project will develop construction robots that could boost both on-site and off-site sustainability
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Heathrow to tender for £18.6bn runway ‘this year’
Chief executive expects to tender for work by 2016 after Davies Commission backs expansion at site
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Comment
Keeping the lights on
News that the Ferrybridge and Longannet power stations are closing early has the industry searching for alternative measures
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Comment
Getting back on track
Caught between the need for essential enhancement work and a tighter government leash, Network Rail may need to rethink its route to reform
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News
ISG hit by further £10.5m of restructuring costs
Ongoing losses on four live contracts due to subcontractor insolvencies
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Carllion revenue up as firm bags £80m Oman job
Order book stays strong despite inpact of election jitters in May
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Helical Bar reveals plans for Covent Garden scheme
Fitrm reaches deal to purchase West End site for £42m for new mixed-use scheme
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Features
CPD 13 2015: Introduction to sanitary pipework design
The latest module in our CPD series examines the regulations, standards, materials and other key factors to consider when designing pipework layouts. This module is sponsored by Marley Plumbing Drainage
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