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CommentMind the GAAP
TAX TIPS - The ripple effect of the Enron scandal is affecting accountancy standards in the UK, and will result in some companies showing higher returns – and possibly paying more tax
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CommentTell us where it hurts
Open mike The government’s push for large framework deals is proving costly for smaller firms. So a new Strategic Forum survey aims to find out how bad it’s getting.
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Developers ‘face uncertain year’
Developers are facing an unpredictable year despite the recovery in the commercial market.
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De Kieviet’s gambit
Company focus BuildOnline has just merged with a US rival – and now it’s going global
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FeaturesDry stone flooring
Stanhope was sick of waiting around for screed to dry, so it asked some suppliers to work out a way of doing without it. Thomas Lane kicks off a flooring special by explaining how they did just that.
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What to specify: flooring
Everything you could possibly want to do to a floor is covered this week, from laying it, carpeting it, heating it, colouring it and protecting it, to fixing balconies and inserting sockets into it.
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What to remember: Floor screed
Don’t want to lay your fancy finish on that bumpy, lumpy sub-floor? You need a decent screed – but there’s more to applying one than mixing cement and sand, says Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg
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FeaturesDome improvements
WHO FITS IT - Mark Holden of 4m tells Building about the intricacies of laying down resin flooring in the Millennium Dome
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FeaturesSporting chance
WHO MAKES IT - Gerflor’s French staff were sick as parrots when London won the 2012 Olympics. But the UK office was over the moon – it had big plans to supply floors to the new arenas.
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in December 2006
This month’s data from the NHBC
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Start at home
The lack of impact of the RICS’ campaign against the government’s restrictions on QSs coming to work in Britain shouldn’t really come as a surprise (“RICS frustrated by failure of visa campaign”, 5 January, page 14).
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No move to east London
A postscript to the article “Foster consortium set to bid for Olympic media centre” (5 January, page 11) implies that the proposal to move some key departments and channels to Salford may not happen.
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Stick to what you know
Tony Bingham’s hope that 2007 will be the year when architects do drawings, engineers do engineering and so on (5 January, page 54) is music to the ears of indemnity brokers and insurers.
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One man’s junk ...
Last week I spotted one of your “little gems of genius” (5 January, page 12) about the online marketplace whatdoidowiththis.com.
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CommentLet’s make this interesting ...
Sure, anyone can fall off a scaffolding and break a couple of bones, but how many fall off and drown in a river?
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FeaturesWillkommen zurück, pet (Welcome back, liebchen)
Our league of Europe’s top 300 contractors and materials producers kicks off with an analysis of the German market, which has just had its first year of growth in a decade. Mark Leftly looks at what’s caused the change – and what it means for British firms considering a trip ...
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NewsThe battle of Croydon
Croydon council struck developer Stanhope a blow this week by serving a compulsory purchase order (CPO) on the Gateway site in east Croydon.
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M&E firm Axima to abandon northern England
M&E contractor Axima has been forced to withdraw from the northern English market and restructure after being hit by financial problems.
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PGS provides chance for tax evasion, say critics
Nick Raynsford, the former construction minister, has warned that the design of the planning gain supplement (PGS) provides plenty of scope for tax evasion, further increasing pressure on the government to scrap the levy.
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Entrepreneur Beaton enlarges IT portfolio
Manchester-based entrepreneur Richard Beaton has acquired one of the leading IT software groups in the housebuilding sector.