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Banks ‘highly confident’ Barratt will not breach covenants
Sources close to the refinancing talks between Barratt and its lenders have dismissed speculation that covenants will need to be retested because of accounting rules
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Corus axes 2,500
Steel maker Corus has confirmed plans to cut 2,500 jobs in the UK and mothball a plant in south Wales
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McBains appointment
Consultant McBains Cooper has appointed Patricia Crittenden finance director
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Boot fears a kicking
Developer and construction group Henry Boot has warned writedowns on its property portfolio in 2008 hit the company harder than expected
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McInerney needs deal
Dublin housebuilder McInerney said it was poised to sign fresh banking deals to cope with the recession
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Jarvis shares plunge
Jarvis shares plummeted by nearly a third to 6p last week after news that Network Rail is set to “significantly reduce” its track renewal programme in the year to March 2010.
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Mears buys 3C
Social housing repair and maintenance contractor Mears has bought 3C Asset Management, the company formerly known as Erinaceous Property Management, for £12.5m.
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Building buys a pint … for Structure Tone
It’s a tentative start to the evening. The downstairs bar in Smiths of Smithfield is mysteriously shut. There’s an organic beer tasting event upstairs but by the looks on everyone’s faces that’s a non-starter
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CommentThe audacity of Hansom
Inspired by inaugural events across the pond, we indulge in some gentle globetrotting and encounter a failed QS in China, a cement protest in Greece and a lone Hungarian in the Middle East
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FeaturesVince Cable: 'This industry could collapse'
When the person who says this is Vince Cable, a man with a gift for eerily accurate economic predictions, you know things are serious
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CommentSuds law: Limiting adjudication materials
You can throw anything you want at an argument in an adjudication – even the kitchen sink – but it won’t wash if you don’t give the other side time to consider it
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On the safe side: Corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences
Fears about the vagueness and leniency of health and safety and corporate manslaughter laws have been assuaged by two new pieces of legislation
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CommentDo we still need Minter?: Late payments act
The Late Payments Act compensates companies for the costs they incur while waiting for their money, so we may be able to say goodbye to an old bit of case law
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NewsAbu Dhabi investor reviews UK projects
The head of Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, which owns the Excel centre in London, has travelled to the UK to review its projects
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Latest construction appointments - 30 January 2009
John McAslan + Partners has appointed Pauline Nee head of historic buildings
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Confusion over Scottish EPCs
The introduction of energy performance certificates in Scotland has been thrown into confusion after it emerged that separate government-backed energy rating software can produce radically different results for the same building
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NewsDelivering energy infrastructure
Energy minister Mike O’Brien will be among 19 keynote speakers at Building’s Delivering Energy Infrastructure conference next month
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FeaturesPlanning: what's happened to section 106?
Affordable housing, roads, health facilities, schools, even public art – all these were paid for out of developers’ section 106 contributions. But that was in the good times. Now the well’s run dry and the question everyone is asking is: where’s the money going to come from?
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CityWatch: A bad week to be in Barratt’s boots
This was the week that Barratt went into administration – the shoe shop, that is.