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Robinson Low Francis to slash staff pay 12.5%
Consultant stops pension cash as senior Scott Wilson staff move to three-day week
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NewsTo illustrate my point …
Hugh Venables of marketing consultancy The Partners Group was writing a missive about the Work at Height Regs when he spotted these builders on the slate roof of the hotel across the road
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Zaha profit rises to £5m
Zaha Hadid Architects posted a fivefold increase in pre-tax profit to £5m in the year to 30 April 2008
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Balfour beats the downturn
Balfour Beatty has announced a 24% increase in pre-tax profit in 2008, up from £201m to £249m
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Warings back in black
Portsmouth contractor Warings returned to the black in 2008, posting a pre-tax profit of £202,000
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CommentCakes and ale? Fat chance
While bigwigs from our own industry forgo power lunches and business-class flights for the communal fridge and easyJet, at least Dubai’s know the value of pointlessly exorbitant gestures …
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NewsHawkinsBrown in Tooley Street: Young at heart
A refurbished London terrace will be turned into offices, a shop, restaurants and studios
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Changes to planning
Small building alterations could be made easier if a change to the planning system proposed by the Killian Pretty review, which the government will consult on by summer 2009, is made law
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New low for new build
The number of new homes built next year could slump to 70,000, its lowest level in 88 years and half the level expected this year, trade body the National Housing Federation has said
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Big win for Lovell
Contractor Lovell has won a £20m deal to improve homes for a Northamptonshire housing association
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Call for collaboration
Housing associations and local authorities should join forces as “planner-developers”, and work together through the downturn, the Town and Country Planning Association has said.
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Flooding advice
A toolkit for planning in flood risk areas from Baca Architects says the cost of making space for water in flood-prone developments may be cheaper than building flood defences.
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Planning applications: February 2009
The ODA broke the £2bn barrier last month but projects at planning stage were still down
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Do as you would be done by
With our construction supply chain under pressure, I read with great interest your article “Out of credit” (27 February, page 20)
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CommentThese things are important
Bernard Cribbins was the voice of The Wombles, not Paddington, who was voiced by Michael Hordern (27 February, page 32)
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Bargain basement
I read with interest the articles on markets that could ease the burden of recession and on the complex regulations associated with loft conversions (20 February, pages 46 and 62)
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Ready and willing
I am currently studying Building Surveying and the Environment at the University of Plymouth
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FeaturesPaul Hamer: saving White Young Green
After swallowing 18 companies in five years, the consulting engineer was bloated with debt and stranded in rapidly receding markets. Now its new boss, Paul Hamer, has to mount a rescue. Tom Bill asks him how he’ll do it …
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Bovis axes 50 staff – but saves 250 who were under threat
Bovis Lend Lease has reduced its staff count by 50 in the UK following a consultation in which 300 employees were at risk of losing their jobs
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NewsYou’re looking good, petal
Ian Simpson Architects has won an RIBA competition to design a £5m National Wildflower Centre in Knowsley, Merseyside