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Atkins confident
Atkins has said performance in the year to date is in line with expectations despite a poor start to 2008 at its management consultancy business.
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Revised supermarket ‘impact test’ set to be announced
Rules to replace the town centre “needs test” on applications for out-of-town supermarkets are set to be announced this month.
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Berkeley wins award
The housing company Berkeley Homes has won the 2008 Sustainable Cities award presented by the City of London for its work to reduce emissions.
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Council house work
Birmingham council is set to sign off a £129m programme of investment in refurbishing council homes over the next year.
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CommentHow safe are the specialists?
Another well known family name looks like becoming history this week. In an echo of the famous sale of Laing to O’Rourke in 2002, Hills Electrical was taken over by one of its rivals for the nominal sum of a pound.
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The facts of life
I read with interest the copious articles (8 February, page 62-65) regarding the Office of Government Commerce’s Guide to Best Fair Payment Practice and the follow-on subject of project bank accounts.
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When theres nobody to chase
Tony Bingham’s boss, a main contractor, was very good at chasing retentions from employers and getting paid (25 January, page 60); the problem comes when the employer goes bust.
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An honest answer
Reading Amanda Levete’s arguments in support of nuclear power (8 February, pages 30 -31) reminded me of a conference I attended four years ago.
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What London needs
Further to your article on the establishment of a London board of the Home and Communities Agency (7 February, Building.co.uk), the availability of affordable housing in the capital is one of the city’s most pressing issues.
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Erinaceous at centre of second fraud probe
Troubled property consultant Erinaceous has become embroiled in a second fraud investigation.
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California dreaming
The £60m Broad Contemporary Art Museum designed by Renzo Piano opened this week in Los Angeles.
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Barr tipped for first Commonwealth Games win
Scottish contractor Barr is on the verge of winning the first construction contract for Glasgow’s 2014 Commonwealth Games.
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Carillion to create 1,000 jobs in the next two years
Carillion expects to create over 1,000 jobs in the next two years as a result of its £554m takeover of Alfred McAlpine.
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Crane website
The Strategic Forum is to set up a dedicated email address to which unsafe tower cranes can be reported.
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Willmott’s win
Willmott Dixon is to build the £27m City of London KPMG Academy on Homerton High Street in east London.
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Olympic training
The Olympic Delivery Authority has promised to recruit 2,000 construction trainees to work on the Olympic park and other 2012 venues.
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NewsWhats new, pussycat?
Celia Hammond is the former sixties model behind an animal trust that has rescued more than 170 cats from the Olympic site.