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NewsSkanska and Arup green venture looks to hit £200m
Details of green initiative add to evidence of improving London market emerging at Mipim
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CommentAgents have eye on traditional QS markets
New rivals are encroaching on surveying and engineering territory
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CommentAwful January construction output figures may just be the result of a hangover from December
Figures suggest that less work was done in January than in December
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NewsMarshalls’ profits up despite £11m winter hit
Landscaping group says it is looking to build activities overseas
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NewsCITB earmarks £25m new training cash
Training body says it will climb out of the red this year after cost-cutting and lower training grant take-up
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Building sports venues: It's only a game
Construction projects notoriously run over time, but when you are building a venue for an international sports event, time is of the essence. Here’s a few things to bear in mind
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FeaturesEast London Line big winner at Civil Engineering Awards
The awards took place last Friday honouring the civil engineers that make London run - from infrastructure, to buildings to the protection offered by the Thames Barrier.
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Don't be 'wilfully blind' to finance issues
A recent example of a firm going bust shows the risks company directors take if they neglect their duty to creditors and are ’wilfully blind’ to problems their business may face
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CommentProcedure costs: Please translate
If a judge wants a specific document prior to trial that one party has never heard of, you’d expect someone to ask for clarification. Not in this, unnecessarily expensive, case
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FeaturesNightingale Associates on healthcare specification
Public sector cuts and government proposals to hand healthcare commissioning to GPs means these are interesting times for healthcare specialist architects. Building talks to Mike Nightingale, founder of Nightingale Associates
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FeaturesFrameworks: Make room for the small fry
The government wants to make frameworks more open to small and medium-sized firms while at the same time making big savings in public sector procurement. Here’s what the construction industry can expect
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FeaturesPaul Wilson: Standing out from the dark
Whatever the fate of its stricken Irish counterpart, Sisk UK is determined to beat the recession with an ambitious strategy of expansion. Managing director Paul Wilson explains how he plans to make it work.
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CommentAsking for the moon
A lot of offices designed pre-recession and waiting to be built won’t meet the toughest environmental standards. Once we start building again, we have to aim higher
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Building buys a pint for… the Building Awards shortlist
Last week Building hosted a drinks reception for those shortlisted for the Building Awards. It wasn’t so much Building buys a pint, but Building lays on heaps of booze and everyone on the shortlist is invited. The Met Bar, famous in the nineties for its celebrity clientele, had probably never ...
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FeaturesWho wants to be in social housing?
Six months on from the collapse of Rok and Connaught, their competitors are scrambling to take their places against a backdrop of cuts and jittery clients. And now the big players are looking to muscle in on the social housing market
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NewsBalfour Beatty rules out major acquisitions
Firm wants to focus on ’augmented organic growth’ and PPP markets in the US and Canada
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CommentLet's dance
We’re in a party mood this week, as we toast the Building Awards 2011 finalists at an exclusive, and very sartorially aware, London venue. Now, has anyone seen my bow tie?
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NewsISG boss says London fit-out will not recover till 2012/13
Warning comes despite contractor’s profit rising 73% on £150m sales increase