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UK raises emissions target
Government increases from 60% to 80% its target for cutting carbon emissions by 2050
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K is for key performance indicators
A-Z of construction law Our beginner’s guide to legal basics reaches K, and the increasingly important notion of the key performance indicator
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Alan Sugar’s firm sues surveyors
Sir Alan Sugar’s property company is suing chartered surveyor Wilks Head & Eve for negligence.
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Bovis Lend Lease stands down team at £300m Walbrook Square
Bovis Lend Lease has removed its project team from the £300m Walbrook Square development in the City of London amid continuing doubts over its future.
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Corus cuts steel output by 20%
UK and Netherlands plants slash production in response to economic crisis
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Costain closes Chelmsford office
Costain is to close its Chelmsford office after a strategic rethink.
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Mace’s price for building Shard rises by about £85m
Main contractor on landmark project offers guaranteed maximum price in region of £435m
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88% of projects hit by problems with utilities
The problem of getting a site connected to a gas, electricity or water supply has grown even worse in the past two years, according to a survey from the National Federation of Builders.
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Accordia is first housing scheme to win Stirling prize
Feilden Clegg Bradley praised by Home Builders Federation for ‘high-quality design’
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Feed-in tariff 'meaningless' without figures say experts
Sustainability champions urge more detail from government
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Whoops! I dropped my brush
Lee Levy of NLC spotted this heart-stopping paint job on a hotel building site in Aruba.
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Features
It’s a balancing act
Last year, employers had one overriding problem to address: how could they recruit/poach/scrounge/bribe enough decent people to handle the endless stream of projects flowing from well-capitalised clients?
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Brave new world
Many companies are mounting expeditions abroad to escape the UK downturn, but with global expansion comes a whole set of interesting problems.
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Treat your staff with honesty and humanity
Thousands of people have been made redundant in the past few months and more will probably follow. How should a good employer handle this painful process? Josephine Smit found out
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Why do we give benefits?
Some firms shower their staff with cars, flexitime, parties and sabbaticals on the understanding that their generosity will be rewarded. Debika Ray finds out if it is
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The big picture: Employers guide 2008
So now we know which construction’s best employers are, but what else does all that data tell us? David Rogers crunches the numbers
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Crumbling cookies
Your wallet may feel a bit light right now, but that’s just the way things are sometimes. Cheer up, put on a cuppa and mull over Guy Browning’s creative economies, starting with …
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Lean machine – Southwark council HQ
So many commercial developers crank out the same old generic office space. But here’s one that dares to be different. Stephen Kennett visits Southwark council’s low-energy headquarters in London – and, no, there’s not a false ceiling anywhere
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Insulated dampproof courses and waterproofing
Hyload Insulated DPC, the structural waterproofing product from Ruberoid Buildings Products, has been designed to minimise cold bridging when closing masonry cavity walls.
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Products in brief
The Galvanizers Association has published a new guide, Galvanizing and Sustainable Construction, which aims to help architects, specifiers, engineers, developers and their clients use galvanized steel in the context of sustainable construction.