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Balfour confidence
Balfour Beatty has said 2008 results will be at the top end of expectations.
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Alumasc write-off
Alumasc will write off up to £2.5m after finding an accounting overstatement in its engineering products division.
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Heijmans resignation
Guus Hoefsloot, Heijmans chairman, has resigned after the company forecast 2008 profit after tax of €50m (£40m) – down 11% on €56m (£45m) last year.
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Waterman on track
Consultant Waterman has said it is on track to hit City forecasts of £128m turnover in the year to 30 June 2008.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Adams Kara Taylor
Guy can’t believe his bad luck. He is meeting a construction magazine for drinks and finds himself sat between two women rabbeting on about the Sex and the City movie.
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CommentVarious positions
Mark Clare is staying, Ross Brewer is leaping, Lawrie Haynes and Boris Johnson can’t be seen, a female engineer is attracting attention and the Department of Health is getting hot under the collar
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Spanish housing market: The pain in Spain
The Spanish property market has collapsed, not only devastating the economy but also littering the coast with thousands of vacant properties. Is the UK housing market likely to suffer the same fate?
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John the Evangelist
Your leader (9 May, page 3), coupled with Sir John Egan’s personal comments (page 32), rightfully acknowledge the progress that has been made in implementing some of the recommendations of Rethinking Construction.
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Not like the nineties
The £200m package to buy unsold homes proposed in the draft Queen’s Speech is the government taking money from housing associations (16 May, page 10).
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Keeping them keen
Staff retention is and has for a long time been a major issue in the construction industry.
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NewsTerrain's gravity defying ski jump in Germany
The hurtling, cantilvered form of this 395m German ski jump expresses the dynamic, gravity-defying sport of ski jumping itself
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FeaturesRebuilding Trust: Britain's biggest clients back our campaign
In five weeks’ time, Building is to present the Office of Fair Trading with a list of firms that have backed our Rebuilding Trust campaign. Here, some of Britain’s most important clients tell Emily Wright why they’re doing just that, and why they think contractors and consultants should follow suit
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Water regs to cut waste and scalding
The government has proposed changes to the Building Regulations to improve water efficiency and reduce the danger of scalding.
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CommentRogue Customers
Clients who don’t pay can ruin small businesses and wreck the lives of their owners. James Clegg and Roxane McMeeken listen to the stories of three builders who think it’s high time something was done about the rogue customer
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NewsTales from the crypt
Work on the £36m refurbishment of St Martin-in-the-Fields is expected to be completed in June, almost two months later than planned.
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Subcontractors launch final offensive over payment reforms
Specialist groups have begun a final push to persuade MPs and ministers to introduce reforms to payment and adjudication rules in the Construction Act.
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MPs accuse industry of ‘feeble excuses’ on zero carbon
MPs have accused the housebuilding industry of making “feeble excuses” to avoid making new homes zero carbon by 2016 and “dragging its feet on renewables”.