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CommentHansom headaches
This week, there’s a spot of mild concussion for a housebuilder’s chairman, some trouble with the clientele at a fashionable Highbury eatery, and Paul Morrell turns the volume up to 11
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CommentWhat would you do with the regs?
The Building Regulations have already achieved a great deal, says Andrew Stunell (the man in charge of them) - but now he wants you to tell him how they could do even more
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CommentQuentin Shears: A night to remember
’On a river there is no escape. A boat party is where corporate hospitality meets factory farming’
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FeaturesInternational costs 2010
Now that the great global roller-coaster seems to be slowing down, where has it left tender prices? Paul Moore of EC Harris looks at how economies around the world have fared …
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Features101 under 28: They’re the young generation and they’ve got something to say
101 Under 28: This week, Building launches a project to find out what construction’s younger generation really think about the industry they’ve chosen to spend their careers in. Roxane McMeeken conducted an initial survey of our sample group, then took three of them to the pub to grill them further ...
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FeaturesInsulation retrofit: Sealing the house
So how do you get a leaky Edwardian building to be so airtight that it can be heated with a single towel rail? Robert Prewett, the architect behind the retrofit, takes us through the project’s first steps …
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CommentThe land of the Dachdeckermeister
Germany’s technical and political approach to sustainable construction is much more advanced than the UK’s. So why don’t we steal a few ideas from them
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On turning a blind eye: Traditional Structures vs HW Construction
If you notice that a supplier has mistakenly failed to charge for an item on their tender, can you accept the price, keep shtoom and then hold them to it?
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NewsAecom buys Davis Langdon for £204m
Takeover after months of negotiations ends the independence of one of UK industry’s biggest names
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NewsGove set for council showdown
Sandwell council delegation to confront education secretary over scrapped BSF schemes
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NewsUnions warn of strikes over TfL cuts
TSSA and RMT to ballot members as transport commissioner warns of £1bn funding reduction
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Renewables industry puts orders on hold after government u-turn
Fears grow among microrenewables installers after failure to bring key legislation forward
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CommentRichard Steer on Aecom's takeover of Davis Langdon
What does the takeover mean for the UK cost consultants who value their independence?
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Greens and developers unite against planning reform
Royal Town Planning Institute leads call meeting with Pickles on localism
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NewsDavis Langdon & Aecom: A history of mergers and aquisitions
The firms have a 100-year history of mergers and takeovers
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NewsLaing O'Rourke and Costain win £300m Bond Street job
Consortium beats Balfour Beatty and Vinci/Bam Nuttall consortium to Crossrail-linked upgrade
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NewsConnaught lenders start selling loans
Barclays is one of the banks selling their Connaught loans to hedge funds specialising in distressed debt
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NewsLloyds writes off £3bn from property portfolio
Banking group’s six-month figure ’driven’ by acquisition of HBOS real estate book