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Winner tipped for last Olympic job
Stanton Williams emerges as favourite for Eton Manor as MPs slam spiralling 2012 budget
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NewsCity unconcerned by ‘storm in an OFT cup’
The City reacted with studied indifference to last week’s accusations of bid rigging by the Office of Fair Trading, writes Tom Bill.
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Developers could defer payment on public land for housing
Developers planning to build homes on publicly owned sites may be able to defer payment for the land under plans being developed to stimulate housebuilding during the market downturn.
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T&T turns into public company
Turner & Townsend has changed its structure and become a public company as part of its continuing efforts to float on the stock exchange.
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Morgan Sindall reports fall in demand for fit-out work
Morgan Sindall has said the credit crunch began to hit areas of its fit-out business in the first quarter of 2008.
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NewsAlsop's reveals designs for Headingley cricket ground
Five-storey pavilion at Yorkshire test ground will become a university teaching facility during the winter
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Industry misses integrated teams target
The head of Constructing Excellence has said he is disappointed by the industry’s progress towards integrated project teams and supply chains.
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Capita makes another purchase
Capita Symonds has bought consulting engineer NRM Bobrowski for an estimated £1.5m.
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NewsIce cream cocktails on the house at Phase One Shoreditch
Ices laced with cocktails and the tales of an Olympic fencer were the highlights of Building's latest social for new professionals
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Vadera pledges that Whitehall will become model client
Baroness Vadera, in her first interview as construction minister, has promised to make Whitehall sign up to the best practice charter originally produced for the 2012 Olympics.
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Small builders feel the chill as housing market evaporates
Construction workloads have fallen to their lowest levels since spring 2006, according to figures from the Federation of Master Builders.
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NewsFamily of dead woman calls for carbon monoxide alarms
Police and HSE investigate death of 26 year old killed by carbon monoxide in Barratt home
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What’s going where in London
The credit crunch may be tightening, but over £2.5bn of schemes are still being built in the City
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Mace boss predicts ‘healthy’ 2008 as profit rises 46%
Stephen Pycroft, the chief executive of Mace, has said the consultant will have a “healthy” 2008 despite the market downturn.
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FeaturesThink 08: a taster
Think 08 will take place at the ExCeL centre London on 7-8 May. Here’s a taster of some of the firms that will be taking part.
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Government under fire over diploma launch
Industry bodies have attacked the government over its launch of the construction diploma, saying employers have been left with little confidence in it, writes Sarah Richardson.
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Crispin & Borst’s profit boost
Crispin & Borst, a subsidiary of French construction company Vinci, has posted a 3% rise in pre-tax profit from £3.3m to £3.4m in the year ended 31 December 2007.
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Reform the Regs: The first battle is won
Building has claimed victory in its fight to reform the regs (which just leaves the small task of implementing all the tough new environmental regulations mentioned elsewhere in this supplement). Thomas Lane rates how well the government has answered our campaign demands
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NewsThe Code for Sustainable Non-dwellings
In December, the UK Green Building Council published a report into the feasibility of replicating the Code for Sustainable Homes for all other building types. Nick Cullen of engineer Hoare Lea looks at what that report recommends and whether we can expect zero-carbon non-housing any time soon …