All Editorial articles – Page 3
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CommentCitywatch: Morgan sindall’s big gamble
Construction analysts spent most of the week marvelling at the speed with which Morgan Sindall had slapped £28m on the table for the social housing arm of Connaught
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Mears and British Gas link up to bid for energy contracts
Mears has announced a strategic partnership with British Gas to tap into funding from the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target and the Community Energy Saving Programme.
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Berkeley keeps silence on shock St George boss departure
Berkeley Group has declined to comment on the reasons behind the sudden departure of Tony Carey, the managing director of the firm’s St George business, after 17 years on the main board of the company.
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Green bank
The Green Investment Bank proposed by the coalition to fund infrastructure is likely to be publicly funded, business secretary Vince Cable said this week
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CommentNot with a bang but a whimper
We’re fighting our corner with all the eloquence and ferocity of a strangled budgie, and as yet more thousands are laid off, no one is there to so much as protest at our fate, says Richard Steer
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NewsApples and pears … Thomas lane previews the ipad alternatives
Given the critical acclaim and instant success of the iPad, it’s hardly surprising there is a rash of emulators. Like the iPhone clones, most of these tablet computers run Google’s Android operating system, which has generally been well received. Like the iPad, users have thousands of apps to choose from. ...
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NewsDavis Langdon aims to become ‘the next McKinsey’
QS to move into high-level management consultancy to offset lack of new construction work
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Aukett to make fresh swoop after Archial collapses
Deal between the firms on the cards after UK’s sixth-largest architect falls into administration
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ACS bids for control of Hochtief
Spanish contractor ACS has made an offer for a controlling stake in German rival Hochtief. If the deal goes through, it would create one of the biggest construction groups in the world.
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FeaturesHays 2010 salary guide: Do we have to fight about it?
There’s no way to sugarcoat this: contractors’ pay is down and benefits are under threat, too. Roxane McMeeken looks at the figures in the Hays 2010 salary survey and asks how employers and employees can stick together through the hard times
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NewsAbramovich building secret £20m nightclub
Roman Abramovich is understood to be building a secret £20m music venue beneath Chelsea FC’s stadium
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Kier puts faith in frameworks as profit rises 10%
Pre-tax profit at Kier rose 10% to £55.5m from £50.6m last year, largely thanks to its framework deals.
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Balfour Beatty picked for £250m Irish road PPP
Work on 57km stretch of motorway will start early next year
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CommentLess really is less
To retrofit a building for energy efficiency, it’s no good tinkering with insulation or installing a heat pump. Only whole-structure solutions will change our future
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Infrastructure warning
John Cridland, the CBI’s deputy director-general, has warned the government that it will repeat the mistakes of the past if it neglects infrastructure investment in its Comprehensive Spending Review
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Maglev's inflexible
The only problem with maglev (and the reason it is not being adopted widely, even in China) is its inflexibility and inability to handle the passenger flows moving between cities (3 September, page 38).
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How much wood?
I found the words in Building’s leader (27 August, page 3) and the article on timber frame fire risk (page 9) incredible
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CommentHansom: Leaping lizards
There’s much hurling this week as industry leaders chuck themselves off buildings, press officers throw themselves into their work and Ann Widdecombe launches herself into the highland fling
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NewsGod’s work
Architect Paul Davis + Partners and contractor Wallis have completed the restoration of St George’s, a grade II-listed church in north London.