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Balfour retrenches despite £141m profit
Balfour Beatty is striving for £30m in “cost savings” over the next year after recording a £141m half-year profit
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NewsKent sport centre: Super delivery
A £6m Centre for Sporting Excellence in Folkestone, Kent, has gained planning permission
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NewsLatest construction appointments: 13 August 2010
Repair and maintenance company Morrison has appointed Andy Cornaby central region managing director, and Gordon Brockington business development director
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CommentDavis Langdon takeover: Making painful progress
So the industry’s worst-kept secret is out: Aecom is taking over Davis Langdon
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Don't trust Shapps
How surprised are we in the architectural profession that another government promise has been broken (Shapps delays definition of zero carbon, 30 July, building.co.uk)?
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Don't trust Gove
Perhaps if Michael Gove identifies where the funding was coming from for both the capital and the revenue, the Academies Bill might be more believable (Gove defends “rushed” Academies Bill, 20 July, building.co.uk)
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Right tool for the job
Your article, Government’s carbon compliance tool ’inadequate’ (2 July, building.co.uk) raises an important question: why is the government continuing to spend money expanding the capabilities of SAP, when other alternative tools are already available in the form of SBEM and DSM?
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Smaller fish are endangered
Aecom’s deal to buy Davis Langdon for £204m will further reduce the opportunity for smaller consultancies to win major projects (5 August, building.co.uk)
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With a little understanding
The “big society” is working well, then (Prescott ’growth areas’ pull plans for thousands of homes, 6 August, building.co.uk)
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CommentBSF collapse: Acrimony, angst and anger
The collapse of Building Schools for the Future has left a lot of bad feeling, but in some ways the programme deserved to die - and we now have the chance to do it better
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CommentBuilding buys a pint ... for Humberts leisure
In the seventies you used to get lots of buff women with heaving breasts in vampire films, but now it’s just buff men
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CommentDavis Langdon - An Aecom company
One of the best known and respected consultants in the UK has been bought by a US firm 10 times its size. Here, Tom Bill asks whether DL was forced into a marriage with Aecom, and what will happen to the 91-year-old brand once two become one
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The tracker: Still sinking slowly
The ONS might have recorded a rise in output, but figures record a continuing gentle decline …
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NewsThis house has been designed to be highly sustainable. So why isn’t it?
The gap between design and built performance is seriously hampering our chances of meeting the 2016 target for zero carbon homes
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NewsColoured render
StoRend Cote has been specified on an affordable, low-energy housing scheme developed by Fyne Initiatives, the commercial subsidiary of the Argyll-based Housing Association, Fyne Homes.The homes are said to be the UK’s first social housing development built to Passivhaus standards. Designed by Professor Gokay Deveci of Robert Gordon University, each ...
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Blown insulation
Rockwool, manufacturers of non-combustible stone wool insulation, has launched Rockprime, a mechanically installed blown insulation for the loft area of homes
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Wood fibre insulation
Natural Building Technologies’ (NBT) Diffutherm and Pavatherm Plus wood fibre insulation boards have been used to insulate the external walls of a timber frame home development in Dundee
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Composite cladding panels
Cladding manufacturer Steni UK has extended its range of composite panels with sparkling black and white variants.
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Curtain walling
WHS Halo, manufacturers of architectural facades and entrance systems, has introduced an enhanced version of its System 10 curtain walling