More news – Page 2590
-
News
Bullock profit falls
Pre-tax profit at social housing contractor Bullock has fallen from £13.2m to £6.5m as a result of increased administrative charges, details of which were not revealed
-
CommentClients: what are they like?
Which clients deserve a medal? Which should be shunned like yellow dogs?
-
NewsGreen light for green homes
This design by Davy Smith Architects for a £14.9m affordable housing block on Digby Road in Homerton, east London, has been given the green light
-
News
Homebuy agents announced
The Homes and Communities Agency has named the organisations that can act as agents for its HomeBuy affordable housing scheme
-
News
London agencies give Elephant & Castle £1.8m boost
Transport for London and the London Development Agency have agreed to give a £1.8m boost to the regeneration of Elephant & Castle in the London borough of Southwark
-
NewsHousing stats: New-build sales and completions in February 2009
Private registrations are down to less than a third of this time last year
-
News
Ex-Crossrail chair quits race for 2012 legacy post
Former Crossrail chair Adrian Montague is understood to have dropped out of the running to chair the body driving the development of the Olympic park after the 2012 Games
-
NewsCheering up Gravesend: Clifton Wharf, Kent
Clifton Wharf, a riverside regeneration project in Gravesend, Kent, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox has been given planning approval
-
News
Byrne Brothers beats Doyle to £50m Shard concrete package
Mace has awarded Byrne Brothers the concrete package for the £425m Shard tower at London Bridge – a deal worth just under £50m
-
News
Two consortiums win Olympic plant hire contract
Two consortiums have been awarded licences to run two plant hire centres on the Olympic site in a bid to improve efficiency among contractors in the build-up to the 2012 games
-
-
News
Last year’s inflation continues to push construction costs up
The cost of all types of construction work is still increasing year on year despite the downturn, research carried out for Building by cost consultant Davis Langdon has shown
-
News
BAA vows to cut costs on Heathrow over next four years
BAA has said it will rein in costs on its upgrade of Heathrow airport by raising professional standards
-
News
Affordable Suffolk
Affordable housing specialist Lovell is set to build two schemes for Flagship Housing in Newmarket, Suffolk, jointly worth £3.7m
-
News
Scottish town revamp
Construction firm Land Engineering has been awarded a £2.75m contract to transform the centre of Kilwinning, Ayrshire
-
News
Terrace Hill thumbs up
Government offices have granted planning consent for two Terrace Hill schemes, a retail and leisure project in Bishop Auckland, County Durham and a Sainsbury’s food store in Helston, Cornwall respectively
-
News
Scottish parliament may sue for leaks
The Scottish parliament is considering suing building contractors after it emerged that it has spent almost £650,000 over the past year repairing ceiling leaks
-
NewsAcademy award: Hereford Academy, West Midlands
Willmott Dixon has been named preferred bidder for the £21m Hereford Academy in the West Midlands
-
News
Latest construction appointments - 27 March 2009
McBains Cooper appoints two for its London office
-
Features
Cost management: The new rules
After more than 80 years of using the standard method of measurement, the RICS is to publish comprehensive rules for calculating the cost of a whole project. Their author, David Benge, explains