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NewsWetroom products
ACO Building Drainage has added a range of products to its wetroom drainage portfolio
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Comment
Salmond fishing
This is an open letter to Scottish first minister Alex Salmond to express my concern at the lack of direction from the government in addressing the pressing concerns of construction in Scotland
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Comment
Pull together
The current market conditions are forcing clients and their supply chains to review costs and tender processes. However, as an industry we must resist any return to adversarial, lowest price procurement processes
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Comment
Iconic architecture
Building (13 March, page 38) says the era of the icon is over and predicts more modest buildings post-recession. But you interview only architects. Why not some of the clients?
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FeaturesEdward Cullinan's Stonebridge estate: pride of place
Edward Cullinan’s mixed-use Hillside Hub completes the overhaul of a north-west London estate that John Major once avoided for fear of being shot. Dan Stewart finds it a reformed character
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FeaturesThe guts of the UAE: developer Gurjit Singh on Abu Dhabi
As Abu Dhabi prepares for next week’s Cityscape conference, top developer Gurjit Singh tells David Rogers why the emirate’s grand plans are still going swimmingly when so many in the world are dead in the water
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Balfour boss makes a million
The pay of Ian Tyler, the chief executive of Balfour Beatty, broke through the £1m barrier last year
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Wyllie gets 9% raise
Andrew Wyllie, the chief executive of Costain, took home a total of £723,634 last year – a 9% rise on last year’s figure of £663,679
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Notts firms profit falls
Turnover at Nottinghamshire civil engineering and building company North Midland Construction fell 4.3% from £211.3m to £202.2m in the year ended 31 December 2008
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NewsHousing starts on HCA land plummet by 72%
Numbers drop to 3,144 despite housing agency bringing forward £650m from future budgets
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Mortgages rise
The number of mortgages approved in February rose to 24,300, 4% more than January according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders
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Travellers site
Architect Fereday Pollard has produced a number of concept designs for a “model” inner-city site for the travelling community
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Sainsburys in Buxton
DLG Architects has submitted a planning application for a 66,456ft2 retail-led regeneration scheme in Buxton, Derbyshire, promoted by Sainsbury’s and Zurich Associates
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Solihull redevelopment
Solihull council has given the green light to the first phase of the redevelopment of The Green, a 39-acre business park in the town, designed by Aukett Fitzroy Robinson
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Lovell’s in Aylesbury
Social housing specialist Lovell has been selected by the Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust to carry out £2.5m of external housing improvement works to homes in the Aylesbury Vale
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Homeowner distress
More than 3,000 property owners contacted Property Portfolio Rescue in the first three months of 2009
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CommentSending out an SOS
When Alistair Darling delivered his pre-Budget report in November, most firms were hoping that it would launch a lifeboat they could clamber aboard to wait out the worst of the recession
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Threats of legal action rise by 70%
Law firms have noticed a sharp rise in threats of legal action as construction firms struggle to recover debts
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NewsSidcup winners
The Cathedral Group has won a planning appeal to build a mixed-use development in Sidcup, Kent