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Deal for £500m Lloyds assets
Lloyds has selected Coller Capital as the preferred bidder for its integrated finance portfolio of assets, which includes stakes in social housing firms Keepmoat and Apollo
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Tyler bags £200k bonus
Balfour Beatty’s chief executive Ian Tyler took home a cash bonus of £202,860 in 2009, taking his total pay to £933,896
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CommentElephants should not be grey
The Strata tower (9 April, page 38) is as bold as it is ingenious
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Comment
Fun in the sun
I saw redundancy coming (“Have you been made redundant?” 8 April, building.co.uk) and went where my talents would be appreciated
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Comment
Short-sighted vision
The assertion by Homes for Scotland that energy-saving regulations will add £8,000 to the cost of new homes is myopic nonsense (“Green guidelines could threaten Scottish housebuilding”, 8 April, building.co.uk)
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Comment
After the fire
We are once again faced with deaths as a result of a fire in a tower block as James Shears and Alan Bannon tragically died in the fire in Shirley Towers in Southampton
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Comment
The whole truth
The last paragraph of this article (“Bowmer & Kirkland pays out first £10m salary”, 1 April, page 10) is slightly misleading
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Save the trees
I fail to see how you can propose the use of timber as a sustainable material (“How green is your brand?”, 12 April, building.co.uk). It takes many years for a tree to grow, unless it is of a pine variety
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NewsShould you be worried? What the act means for construction
The whole point of the act is to clarify and extend UK criminal law in reply to international pressure
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Features
The tracker: Same time next month …?
It’s business as usual, as tender prices are down for the 20th month in a row and many regions’ indices see no change. At least the weather’s behaved, writes Experian Business Strategies
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FeaturesElection 2010: The manifestos
The parties got their campaigns officially under way this week. So on this page we look at what Labour and Conservatives are proposing. Nick Clegg writes us a letter, we have a chat with our floating voters and check the web poll
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FeaturesRunning Countryside: Another bite of the Cherry
Two days after Countryside chairman Alan Cherry died, his sons were back at work. Graham, the housebuilder’s chief executive, talks to Joey Gardiner about the values his father instilled in him – and whether the company will be able to hang on to its vision in less certain times
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CommentScheming minds
The government has released a consultation on the Scheme for Construction Contracts that proposes big changes in the industry’s rules. Here’s what I think of them …
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FeaturesOpen letter to readers of Building magazine from Nick Clegg
Leader of the Liberal Democrats responds to Building's Charter 284 campaign for investment in infrastructure
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NewsBone Steel calls in receivers as 113 jobs go
Scottish firm goes into administration after slump in demand for structural steel
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NewsMaking a case for health and safety
It's not easy being a health and safety professional, but it's certainly important
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NewsTurner & Townsend Canada merges with local firm
Toronto-based construction consulting firm CM2R works across Canada and northern USA
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Snøhetta's marine lab in Norway
Two students from the Royal College of Art and Nottingham Trent comment on the Norwegian scheme
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NewsUK business bosses call for £500bn infrastructure investment
Report by Institute of Directors says this is amount that is needed over the next 10 years to keep the country competitive