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BSS bullish
Distributor BSS said it is confident that revenue and earnings for the full year will be slightly ahead of market expectations, following a particularly strong quarter.
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Eatonfield up 71%
Housebuilder and commercial property group Eatonfield has posted a 71% jump in turnover to £5.8m for the second half of 2007.
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T Clarke’s profit rise
Electrical engineer and contractor T Clarke has posted a 24.2% rise in pre-tax profit to £8.2m for the year ended 31 December 2007.
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SMC optimistic
Architect SMC expects turnover in the second half of 2007 to be £23m, up 9% from £21.1m in the first half of the year, following a restructure of its management team.
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Housing Bill survives revolt by Labour backbenchers
A major backbench revolt by Labour MPs nearly succeeded in halting the progress of the Housing Bill to the Lords this week.
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Liverpool homes
Liverpool council has transferred more than 15,000 tenant homes to Liverpool Mutual Homes.
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Lovells in Leicester
Lovells is to build a £13.5m mixed-tenure housing development in Beaumont Leys, Leicester.
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£25m services deal
Raglan Housing Association has signed up property services contractor Ian Williams to a 15-year, £25m maintenance deal on homes in Bedford and Leicester.
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Regional strategies
Regional development agencies’ housing, planning and growth strategies will have to be signed off by a “forum” of the region’s council leaders, the government has said.
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Investing in the North
Martin Crookston, director of Urban Studio, is among the regeneration figures appointed to oversee a commission to encourage private investment in the North.
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Rogers slams Thames Gateway
Architect Lord Rogers has accused the government of overseeing the creation of “shoddy Toytown houses” on the banks of the river, with the Thames Gateway scheme.
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NewsWell fit: Foster + Partners’ Willis Building
StructureTone completes fit-out of architects sustainable timber building in the City
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NewsFrench toast: Pritzker prize to Jean Nouvel
Star architect of Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris is 32nd winner of the Pritzker prize
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Fifth of surveyors report drop in workload over first quarter
Growth in construction workloads fell to its lowest level for more than a decade in the first quarter as the credit crunch hit the industry.
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Strategic Forum gets to work on supply chain integration
The Strategic Forum has produced an action plan to promote supply-chain integration.
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MPs to approve skills targets
A report on the work of the sector skills council for construction was due to be approved by parliament as Building went to press.
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Birmingham shortlist
Foreign Office Architects, OMA, Foster + Partners, Hopkins, Mecanoo, Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Wilkinson Eyre are shortlisted to design the £193m Birmingham library.
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Morgan in St Helens
Morgan Ashurst has won a £5.3m deal to design and build a 30,000ft2 business park in St Helens, Merseyside, for Langtree.
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ECA training fund
The Electrical Contractors Association has launched a £10m training fund for areas that do not qualify for government funding, such as adult training.