All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 824
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Profile 22 boosts fleet
Profile 22 is driving enhancements in customer service and company growth through substantial investment in a new delivery fleet.
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Archive TitlesBends to suit your needs: Huddersfield's Novaglaze offers 21st century bending
Glass bending specialist Novaglaze has supplemented traditional techniques with a new bending and tempering furnace.
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Archive TitlesHeywood Williams Writes Off £61m in 2003
Heywood Williams has reported losses of £71.8m for the financial year 2003, £61m of which relates to goodwill write-offs. The group has taken drastic action to reverse the slide: the DIY window and door businesses and the composite door operations have been closed, the UK head count has been reduced ...
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Archive TitlesK2-FMB Partnership is THE BIZ
Interbuild 2004 is to provide the forum to launch an innovative partnership between conservatory roof system manufacturer, K2, and the Federation of Master Builders.
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Archive TitlesK2 rides roof glass sales
Installers have recognised a latent, but fast-growing consumer demand for glass, especially for specialist glass, such as K2’s Celsius thermal performance glass.
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Archive TitlesA fab future's ahead: strong order book helps keb plot course to £15m turnover
While many fabricators are taking a look at new build, partnering contracts will be the backbone of KEB's business for years to come, and the company has the order book to prove it.
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Archive TitlesIdeal project uses PVC-U: system 10 pvc-u systems specified for high-profile project
The innovative Staiths South Bank development in Gateshead embodies the Government led Home Zone philosophy, and features System 10 windows, French doors and foiled curtain walling in bespoke colours
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That’s the way to do it
We have been commissioned by the College of Occupational Therapists to provide guidance to make minor disability adaptations without occupational therapy assessments easier. If this is something you are already doing, we’d like to hear about it: please email f.heywood@bris.ac.uk.
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Think Tank
The principal principleMy council's tenancy conditions state: "The tenant must occupy the property as their only or principal home and must not hold an interest in another habitable property that could be used for occupation by the tenant." So what is your view of the following situation – have similar ...
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Public & private
Roman Haluszczak explains the rules around councils' new right to prudential borrowing
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This is the key
I understand L Smith's frustration ("Key worker scheme is unjust", 2 April, page 22) but I feel I need to correct a couple of misunderstandings. Key Worker Living is based on the proven need to recruit and retain frontline public sector staff in London and the South-east. The high-value equity ...
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Here’s an idea …
I have a good job and earn a good salary for my age. My bank will lend me £70,000 but that doesn’t go very far in Sheffield.As housing associations should be able to procure housebuilding services at an exceptional rate, could they not build me a decent home in a ...
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Gypsies, Jews and how we're missing the point of immigration
Twenty years ago, I moved into a squat in Somerstown, near St Pancras in central London. Shortly afterwards, we were evicted to make way for "rehab" which, then, meant slapping some paint on council flats but now means celebrities in a private hospital.
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Yorkshire group moots 'half home' model for key workers
Key workers and private investors could share the cost of buying a home under a model being explored by a North Yorkshire local strategic partnership.
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Goodwill hunting
New Islington & Hackney chief Brendan Sarsfield wanted tenants to know he cared what they thought, so he and his 200 staff popped round to tell them personally. Kate Freeman tagged along.
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The market gets a helping hand
It may seem like only yesterday, but Richard McCarthy has now been in charge of delivering John Prescott's vision of sustainable communities for six months. The former chair of the National Housing Federation and Peabody supremo started work as the ODPM's director general for sustainable communities in October and to ...
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Archive TitlesThe storeys so far
The storeys so far: East London’s Newham council is considering a planning application for this 22-storey tower in Woolwich, on the north bank of the River Thames. The block, designed by architect TP Bennett, will provide 117 homes, 33 of which will be for key workers. Negotiations for a housing ...
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Put down your shotguns
Re: "Northern associations face prospect of shotgun weddings" (2 April, page 9). We commend the Housing Corporation's John Carleton for his courage, but we consider this another foolhardy approach. The corporation may not have much time for the Audit Commission but we would ask Carleton to read its report, Group ...
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Archive TitlesHostel death probes 'should be done independently'
Homelessness charity criticises internal inquiries after man dies in London hostel
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Glasgow council to monitor GHA's progress on promises
Britain's largest registered social landlord is to have its progress monitored by Glasgow City Council to ensure it keeps promises made to tenants before transfer.