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CommentUndercover recruitment
Following on from your article on unscrupulous headhunters (15 June, page 42), we had an interesting experience with a recruitment agency recently.
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Not so robust
The Robust Details scheme is held up by many as a sure-fire, hassle-free way to comply to Part E.
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Small packages
I received the 2007 UK construction industry Key Performance Indicators pack by post. The CD-Rom and guide booklet together weigh 116 grams and will fit in an A5 jiffy bag.
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The modern way
To meet targets in the housing green paper for increasing the UK’s housing supply, modern methods of construction (MMC) will have to be considered on a wider scale.
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FeaturesSunand Prasad
Politician and academic – not to mention architect – the new RIBA president certainly has the CV to tackle the top post in British architecture. But does he have the policies?
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FeaturesHousebuilders or planners - who should set sustainability targets?
An almighty row has been brewing between local authorities, who want to set their own sustainability targets, and developers who claim this is causing chaos. The two met last Tuesday to thrash out their differences...
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NewsFirms under fire as number of apprenticeships drops
50,000 applications expected for just 7,000 places - Demand for degree places also up
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Listed warehouse
Work has started on the refurbishment of the grade II-listed St George’s warehouse in Huddersfield.
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Balfour on framework
Balfour Beatty has been appointed to Barking and Dagenham council’s civil engineering and highways framework agreement.
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Willmotts 9m school
Willmott Dixon is to build a £9m special educational needs school in Coalville for Leicestershire council.
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Tough job for Gleeson
Gleeson Building is to refurbish Crystal House in Preston, voted the city’s ugliest building.
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More Redrow plots
Redrow has bought an extra 163 plots on an 11-acre site to expand its £28m Priory Fields project in Church Gresley, Derbyshire.
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Aylesbury station
John Laing has reached financial close on Aylesbury Vale Parkway, a train station that will provide a direct service for Chiltern Railways to London Marylebone station.
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Barratt tops spenders list for second quarter
Barratt’s £2.2bn takeover of Wilson Bowden took it to the top of the acquisitions league for the second quarter of 2007, in a table dominated housebuilders.
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Tender prices tipped to rise 34% over next five years
Tender prices for construction work are expected to rise significantly faster than inflation over the next five years, says the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS).
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Sharewatch — Rok solid in uncertain times
There was better news in the property and development sector last week, where concern over the impact of the credit crunch had prompted falls.
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NewsInside the spinning top
These are the first images of the completed Serpentine Pavilion, which opened last week in London’s Hyde Park.
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Main contractors in firing line from payments campaign
Specialist contractors get behind government’s new Fair Payment Charter in bid to cut disputes
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CommentLet’s stop ignoring all this talent
The news that the industry has cut the number of apprenticeships by over a quarter this year should make every one of us hang our heads in shame (news, page 13).