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NewsGovernment sets 2008 deadline for energy certificates
Energy Performance Certificates will be required for all buldings constructed, sold or let from October 2008
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NewsBovis rings the changes at troubled northern division
National shake-up continues as Coleman replaces Colin Harvey with Australian Peter Varga
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CommentHow to fund a revolution
Last year, I proposed the formation of construction city academies to combat the lack of basic skills in young people. Now, here’s how we should finance them ...
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Shark-infested contracts
Artworks often provide the centrepiece for a development. No problem, you might say. Until you know that Damien Hirst’s shark was commissioned for £50,000 and sold for £7m. There’s a lot of room for negligence writs there …
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Barnet to sell off playing fields to fund school building
North London borough hopes to raise £60m to finance primary schools’ renewal programme
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Vinci shares rocket amid takeover rumours
Billionaire investor Pinault may bid for ownership of French construction group
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NewsTaylor Wimpey: the deal of the decade
It is the merger that has been tipped, on and off, for the best part of a decade, but few would have thought that a £5bn deal between Taylor Woodrow and Wimpey to create the UK’s largest housebuilder would finally be hatched in a “dingy roadside cafe on the M40”.
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NewsBlue cocktails and Bingham welcome Phase One professionals
Building's networking event for new professionals attracts over 200 guests at its first event in East London
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NewsWillmott Dixon builds model for zero-carbon schools
BRE to showcase exemplar as Partnerships for Schools makes pledge to go green
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CommentSeconds out
The second adjudication in HG vs Ashwell demonstrates exactly what’s wrong with adjudication: the people who dispense it must be better regulated.
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NewsBDP says it is ‘on target’ despite fall in profit
Profit at Building Design Partnership (BDP), one of the UK’s largest architectural practices, has fallen a third because of changes to an employee payment scheme.
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NewsBlockbusters
Company focus Hurley Palmer Flatt’s energy service involves more than just its clients ...
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NewsHLM to design emergency jail at Belmarsh
HLM has been appointed to design a prison next to Belmarsh jail in south-east London. The move is part of home secretary John Reid’s urgent drive to expand prison accommodation in the UK.The firm is working on a project, which will hold 700 prisoners, as part of an Interserve-led consortium ...
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Bovis rings the changes at troubled northern division
National shake-up continues as Coleman replaces Colin Harvey with Australian Peter Varga
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Red tape victory for Building
The government has launched plans to modernise the Building Regulations, following pressure from the industry, led by Building magazine.
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NewsWillmott Dixon builds model for zero-carbon schools
BRE to showcase exemplar as Partnerships for Schools makes pledge to go green
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NewsRICS demands action on efficiency of existing stock
Institute calls for VAT to be cut to 5% for the refurbishment of energy-inefficient buildings
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FeaturesDouble or nothing
Engineer Carolina Lameiras used to be a member of the ICE. Now she’s studying for an IStructE chartership. In the last of our series of heads to heads, she asked the presidents of both institutes the same tough questions