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  • Ringrose: “No more repercussions from irregularities”
    News

    Interserve takes £43m hit after financial scandal

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Support services firm to stay in industrial market despite taking hit over ‘financial irregularities’

  • Nervous: pathfinders believe their funding may be cut this summer
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    Pathfinders fight for funding

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Report shows programme has attracted developers in areas that had been avoided for decades

  • RIBA president Jack Pringle talks to Building’s Angela Monaghan (right)
    News

    Mipim special

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Talking points

  • News

    Jowell set to announce final cost of Games this week

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    As Building went to press, intense negotiations were continuing between the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and the government over which of them would manage the contingency funds for the Games.

  • News

    Key staff leave Treasury PFI unit

    2007-03-16T01:00:00Z

    Three staff to leave private finance unit over the next two months

  • Comment

    Let’s talk tactics

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Part 36 of the rules covering offers to settle litigation will change next month. From 6 April you will no longer be obliged to tie up a chunk of cash for months on end

  • Smout: predicts 48% profit rise
    News

    Gleeson Building makes it into the black

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Eighteen months after its management buyout, Gleeson Building is about to declare an increased profit

  • Shuttleworth:’We want to make sure every school building is excellent, built to the best standard.’
    News

    Shuttleworth given crucial schools role

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Cabe asks architect to recruit 30-strong panel to ratchet up standards

  • News

    Ikea’s flatpack homes to go ahead despite Cabe hostility

    2007-03-16T09:58:00Z

    Gateshead scheme wins planning approval regardless of watchdog’s ‘significant reservations’

  • Comment

    It’s quiet – but is it too quiet?

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    It’s odd, says Steven Williams, but even though PFI schemes are invariably complicated and expensive, few seem to end up in court. So why is that? And how long will it last?

  • News

    Rogers pulls out of Olympic velopark

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers Partnership (RRP) has pulled out of the race to design the Olympic velopark and has ruled out involvement in any other large venues for the 2012 Games.

  • News

    Key staff leave Treasury PFI unit

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Three important members of staff will leave the Treasury’s private finance unit in the next two months, fuelling fears that the team behind PFI policy will lose its most talented members.

  • UK debut: The BoKlok range will be used in Gateshead
    News

    Ikea’s flatpack homes to go ahead despite Cabe hostility

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Gateshead scheme wins planning approval regardless of watchdog’s ‘significant reservations’

  • John Callcutt
    Features

    Honest John

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    John Callcutt’s housebuilding review is likely to be as candid as the man himself

  • The Binder boiler is a serious piece of machinery: you may have to take the roof off to fit it in
    Features

    Help me, Rhondda

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    When Nightingale Associates was appointed to design the £22m Rhondda Valley hospital in South Wales, a 108-bed facility due for completion in April 2008, it wasn’t aware that it was going to end up installing the largest biomass boiler the NHS has seen.

  • Biometric access and attendance registration systems are becoming increasingly common in public and private schools
    Features

    Safe and sound

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Healthcare and education Good design in schools entails reconciling security with the needs of investors looking to maximise the use of premises.

  • Features

    Lighting rafts

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    SAS International has announced that its System 600 acoustic lighting rafts are now available as a range of standardised designs.

  • Features

    Food and formica

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Formica high-pressure laminate was used to create colourful screen-printed walls for a cafeteria at Acland Burghley School in north London.

  • Features

    Hospital hand units

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Hospital bedhead services specialist Static Systems has brought out a range of patient hand units suitable for those with disabilities.

  • Features

    Acoustic flooring

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Commercial flooring specialist Polyflor has launched an acoustic flooring system.