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T&T seeks companies for Uganda PPP
Turner & Townsend is seeking contractors and architects to work on Uganda’s first PPP - a £350m upgrade of the country’s police estate
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Jamie Cullum to headline industry charity bash
Singer Jamie Cullum, supported by Diversity, the group that won Britain’s Got Talent last year, will headline this year’s Alliance Ball.
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Correction
Building would like to clarify that Tracy Wright, quoted in the Hays Construction & Property international salary survey feature (“Foreign Offices”,23 July, page 34), works for Digby Morris, and not Hays, as suggested in the display copy.
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Guess x estimate
Dare I suggest that your article on SAP has the world upside-down (23 July, page 22)?The science world has only the vaguest quantitative measure of global warming and the contribution to it of carbon dioxide; the possible contribution of the UK to making a change in this is swamped by ...
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Commit to low carbon
Given the continuing delays to the Renewable Heating Incentive (16 July, page 13) and the recent announcement of funding cuts for low-carbon technology, we could be forgiven for thinking the government has lost its conviction in the fight against climate change
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Miller Group
I refer to your article “Breaking the shackles” (23 July, page 16), which includes Miller Group in a list of refinanced housebuilders, all of whom, with the exception of Miller Group, are majority owned or controlled by Lloyds Banking Group
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Take our advice
Your leader on the government’s health reforms and clients’ need for solid advice struck a chord with us (16 July, page 3)
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Q+A from the Building forum
Building’s Forum members will offer advice on all sorts of dilemmas
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FeaturesCost model: Part L
The upcoming changes to Part L will crank up the low-carbon agenda. The authors consider the costs and their influence on design
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NewsVinci to replace Kier on £10m Heathrow T3 refurb
Contractor is replaced ’by mutual consent’ with BAA after project ’not delivered as hoped’
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East Anglia’s green energy centre falls three months behind
An “exemplar” biomass energy centre at the University of East Anglia, built by Morgan Sindall, is three months late in becoming operational
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NewsPFI deal signed for £50m Central Library in Liverpool: Library fine
A £50m PFI deal to renovate the Central Library in Liverpool was signed this week, following four years of planning. The 150-year-old building has now closed while the work is carried out by contractor Shepherd along with Amber Infrastructure.The architect on the scheme is Austin-Smith:Lord. The library is scheduled to ...
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FeaturesUnder floor building services: ground control
An M&E contractor on a south London civic centre project has come up with a neat way of packaging all the services together at floor level. Stephen Kennett gets down to the detail
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Newswetroom floors
Concealed wet floor shower tray manufacturer On The Level has introduced a system for creating wetroom floors using larger tile formats
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Movers and makers: 30 July 2010
Jones of Oswestry, part of Technogroup, has introduced a colour swatch that shows technical data of slip-resistant finishes, as an option on its Suprasteel and Suprabloc access covers. The finishes provide enhanced surface slip resistance and a choice of visual effects on all sizes and duties of the firm’s solid ...
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NewsVinyl flooring
Karndean has added Oak Premier to its Art Select range of vinyl wood-effect flooring