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  • Comment

    We will not be moved

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    It’s good that the Candy brothers won their breach of contract case against developer Qatari Diar (“Candy brothers win Chelsea Barracks case”, building.co.uk, 25 June)

  • Comment

    I saw the news today, oh boy

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    I noted with interest the news that local authorities are having to make substantial payouts on claims for damage to motor vehicles due to the state of the roads, caused by the severe winter weather

  • Comment

    In memoriam

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    On 11 September 2001, 67 British subjects lost their lives in the World Trade Centre attacks

  • Comment

    Q+A from the Building forum

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Q: Is a masters worth doing?

  • On yer head
    Comment

    1-peak challenge

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    It was Warren Pyle who spotted this “truly safety-conscious scaffolder” lugging some heavy planks up a roof. Don’t fancy using the perfectly good scaffolding tower? Nope? On your own head be it …

  • Boris
    News

    Mayor set to claim greater power over London housing

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    GLA officials in talks with communities department to devolve decisions on £1bn of public funding

  • News

    Housing stats planning applications in June 2010

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    More projects at detailed planning than a year ago, except in Scotland; Morgan Sindall tops client list

  • News

    Sector buoyed by last-minute social housing scramble

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Business barometer: Value of work tumbles but housing repairs put Apollo and Mulalley on top

  • We spotted 18 months ago that if there was going to be a contraction in education spending, it was going to be in BSF  Paul Sheffield, Kier
    News

    Kier dodges schools cutbacks

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Kier chief executive Paul Sheffield has predicted that his firm will be unaffected by cuts to the government’s investment in schools and predicted the firm’s outgoing financial director would be “swamped” with opportunities

  • News

    Connaught chief Tincknell steps down

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Connaught chief Mark Tincknell has stepped down following a profit warning three weeks ago that sent the social housing maintenance specialist’s share price crashing by almost two-thirds

  • News

    Taylor Wimpey seeks debt restructuring

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Taylor Wimpey is attempting to renegotiate its debt arrangements and free up cash in order to take advantage of returning demand in the housing sector

  • News

    Atkins bids for Saudi high-speed stations

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Atkins is a member of one of the six consortiums that have submitted bids to build four stations on Saudi Arabia’s new rail link between the cities of Mecca and Medina

  • News

    Green light for £93m Cumbrian hospital

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Laing O’Rourke has been given the go-ahead for a £93m hospital in Cumbria by the health secretary

  • News

    Latest construction appointments: 16 July 2010

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Birmingham council has recruited a strategic director of development. Mark Barrow was chief executive of Newcastle-under-Lyme council since 2007, and replaces former regeneration director Clive Dutton

  • Audi showroom in west London
    News

    Grand Prix

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    An Audi showroom in west London was one of four winners at the 2010 Structural Steel Design Awards

  • Gus Alexander
    Comment

    Planning applications: The age of consent

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Architects are spending more of their time doing designs purely to gain planning permission. But unless they’re going to help build them too, don’t expect them to be any good

  • Turner & Townsend
    Comment

    Building buys a pint … for Turner & Townsend

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    How many traffic lights did you pass on your way to work this morning?

  • AC Cobra
    Features

    My digital life: Chris Chiles

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Do you have, or intend to get, an iPad?

  • Croxteth
    Features

    BSF was not just about schools

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The axing of 735 projects has wreaked havoc on 735 communities, 26 in one city alone. That city is Liverpool, which stands to be £410m poorer as a result of the cancellation. So where does that leave deprived areas such as Croxteth?

  • Comment

    BSF and double dip: Handle with care

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The recovery will be fragile, so are BSF cuts enough to destabilise it?