All Building articles in 2006 issue 30 – Page 4
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Balfour Beatty slammed in final Hatfield report
A final report into the Hatfield rail crash has this week strongly attacked Balfour Beatty for failing to manage track inspection and maintenance.
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Comment
Give us our time back
Legal aid — This month our panel of experts locks horns with a client that has withdrawn an extension of time, sacked the architect and refuses to pay what’s due. Should the contractor down tools, lean on the new architect – or is adjudication the answer?
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Our undivided attention
Angela Smith gives her backing to Building’s 99% Campaign and argues that the government is already 100% focused on tackling the energy efficiency of existing stock
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Housing associations poised to bid for Olympic village
Registered social landlords have put forward expressions of interest in 4500-home scheme
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Gleeds in takeover negotiations with APS
Consultant Gleeds is in talks with project manager APS over acquiring it.
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CBUK makes Wembley appeal
Former Wembley steel firm Cleveland Bridge has submitted its arguments to the Court of Appeal challenging the judgment in the £50m court case with Multiplex in June.
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Volume firms increase affordable homes output
Social housing drove the growth in output by the country’s top private housebuilders last year. Three of the top five volume housebuilders built fewer homes for private sale in 2005 than they did in 2004, but increased their output of affordable homes.
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Comment
The king is dead, actually
According to Building (14 July), Lord Foster’s proposals to construct a 200-mile canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea have the approval of King Hussein of Jordan.
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99% Campaign
The BRE and CIBSE are among the latest names to sign up to Building’s 99% Campaign to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings.
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Features
Balfour Beatty back on top with £600m deals in June
Business barometer Giant leads all three contractor league tables, helped by £553m PFI hospital
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Gleeson to sell engineering business for up to £40m
Contractor continues with plan to refocus on regeneration and drop ‘non-core’ elements
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Turnover grows 23% at Capita Group
Capita Group, the parent of property and infrastructure consultant Capita Symonds, reported a turnover of £845m for the six months to 30 June, up 23% on last year.
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in June 2006
The latest data shows that regional completions are well up on last month, but sales have dipped since June 2005
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Wolseley buys firm for 1.35bn
Acquisitive building materials giant Wolseley has secured its biggest ever deal, with the £1.35bn purchase of Danish rival DT Group from CVC Capital Partners.
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Richard Rogers plunges £700,000 into the red
Architect records first-ever loss, putting it down to anticipated one-off expenditure
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