More news – Page 1997
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NewsCityWatch: Taylor Wimpey's sale fails to impress
After a marginal rise in shares and then decline, Taylor Wimpey’s sale meets with ambiguity from analysts
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NewsWWF zero carbon exit splits industry
Mixed reaction from industry stakeholders regarding WWF’s resignation
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NewsKilburn masterplan progresses
Planning permission has been gained for stage two of north-west London site
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NewsWYG eyes up six firms as possible acquisitions
Despite taking £12.1m in writedowns of companies bought, firm is considering bolt-ons
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NewsInfrastructure costs plan revealed
Senior industry figures will drive plan to save £3bn a year on infrastructure costs
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NewsKeltbray blames market conditions for 86% drop in profit
A multi-million pound investment in rail and waste businessess was also responsible
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Candy & Candy makes loss of £890,000 and restructures
Move sees staff decrease from 110 to 93 and Christian Candy resign as director
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NewsSerpentine Gallery to include garden
Peter Zumthor’s design for 2011 Serpentine Gallery will include ’a garden within a garden’
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CommentGreat leaders of our time
The industry, and indeed the world, is on the move and to stay on top chief executives have to predict where it’s going. The successful could even win a Building Award
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CommentDemolition: Hold off on that wrecking ball
A heritage group has won a major legal battle regarding controls over demolition. It means nearly all demolition now needs planning permission
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CommentDos and Don'ts: Interface issues
In the latest in our series on dos and don’ts, we look at interface issues - what they are and how to manage them when they arise
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Comment
Spread the word
Hansom is right (25 March, page 19) that the CIOB has better things to do than worry about a definition of construction management; and we’re doing them
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CommentMore nuclear, please
Having been struck by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, then flooded by a tidal wave over 10m high, the Fukushima reactors, understandably, suffered some damage
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Defects after completion
Dominic Helps wrote an illuminating account of what damages a client might expect if serious faults are found in an otherwise completed and occupied building (18 March, page 47)
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NewsNuclear reactor design sign-off delayed after Japan crisis
Generic Design Assessment originally planned for June will not come out until September
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Features
Lead times: January-March 2011
Despite some components being harder to find and enquiries up, lead times remain overwhelmingly stable, with only two sectors reporting an increase in the last quarter. Brian Moone of Mace reports