All Building articles in 30 April 2010 – Page 4
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Channel hopping
How many more consultations are they going to waste money on (MPs attack plans for 10-mile Severn barrage)?
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SomSomething to celebrate
The 2010 Building Awards took place last week at London’s Grosvenor House hotel
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Can Clegg be trusted with BSF?
The Lib Dems’ education policy sounds promising. But, like the other parties, they’re remaining ominously quiet about capital investment
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Vinci: Luton council broke tender rules
Vinci has alleged that Luton council breached tender rules in the latest chapter of the row over the town’s £52m guided busway scheme
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Labbad to take on Bovis in Lend Lease global restructure
Bovis Lend Lease is to come under the leadership of Dan Labbad as part of a shake up at Lend Lease, its Australian parent company
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Wonders & Blunders
Phil Reay-Smith loves the first purpose-built TV studio and its proximity to Coronation Street celebs, but is turned off by a new London hospital wing that looks ready to croak
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Birmingham's Cube by Make: Square deal
The £100m Cube in Birmingham has moved closer to completion with the installation of 20,000 panels to form a metallic facade
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Mears wins biggest ever deal
Social housing maintenance firm Mears has won a £300m 10-year deal with registered social landlord Family Mosaic – the biggest win in its history
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Redrow and Persimmon beat expectations
Housebuilders Redrow and Persimmon boosted the market this week with trading updates that allayed fears of a serious election slowdown in home buying
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Bill’s battle
Bill Rawcliffe is one of the many victims left by the collapse of Jarvis. So he started a campaign for justice, and failed to make progress. So, next stop the House of Commons
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The new face of banking: Middelfart bank
3XN’s bold and dynamic savings bank in Denmark offers unbeatable interest. Ike Ijeh opens an account
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BAM bets on civils despite record construction turnover
UK division delivers construction revenue of £1.1bn, but focus turns to rail, waste, roads and energy
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Babcock to slash Network Rail jobs
Only 320 jobs out of 1,200 will be saved when Babcock takes over the bulk of Jarvis’ rail renewal work, Building understands
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Going Dutch: The Hague performing arts centre
A team from Capita Architecture’s Cardiff studio – led by Wales Millennium Centre architect Jonathan Adams – has come up with this design after being invited by the city council of The Hague to enter a competition for a huge centre for the performing artsThe building will be located in ...
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Industry says Labour is best – but will vote Tory anyway
Building web poll shows Labour is trusted to keep spending, but Conservatives still have 7% lead
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The many lives of Joseph Aloysius Hansom
Talented inventor, kamikaze contractor, prolific architect, hopeless entrepreneur, socialist eagle fancier and of course founder of the magazine in your hands … Nick Jones reviews a biography of one of the Victorian age’s most remarkable characters
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All fingers and thumbs
This cavalier fellow appears to find his digits just get in the way and has set about taking decisive action
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Balfour and Laing O’Rourke vie for Alder Hey PFI hospital
Two of the country’s biggest construction firms will go head to head for a £288m PFI children’s hospital in Liverpool
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Choice in an age of uncertainty
These days it seems nothing can be taken for granted, whether its simple travel plans or the fact that the Lib Dems are bound to come third. Which can be a good thing
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In praise of doing less: adjudication scheme
The scheme for adjudication is being redrafted to fit the new (deep breath) Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act. If only they would write it on just one page