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Arcadis to acquire AYH
International consultancy Arcadis is set to snap up UK QS and project manager for £16m.
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Dubai projects threatened by rising material costs
Report by consultant Davis Langdon suggests excessive demand means prices are set to continue to increase.
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Research blames employers attitudes for poor health
Survey reveals employer complacency on occupational health as HSE figures show no progress since summit.
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Housebuilders lobby for year’s delay to Part L tests
Home Builders Federation seeks time to develop simplified method for meeting air-tightness requirements.
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Features
Just the job
John Montague exchanged life at a billion-pound turnover contractor for a career in charitably funded ‘social enterprise’.
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Appointments
ContractorGeoffrey Osborne has appointed Rod Peck operations manager for its South Midlands homes division.HousebuildersAffordable housing provider Lovell has recruited Siân Byrne as business development manager for Wales.Warren O’Callaghan has been appointed part exchange manager at Fairclough Homes’ northern home counties division based at St Albans, Hertfordshire.Gary Belcher has joined Northampton-based ...
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Tougher sustainability regime on the way
A panel of 28 high-profile executives met for the first time last Thursday to thrash out a sustainable procurement plan,
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Pycroft sets out Mace’s five-year expansion plan
One hundred days into the job, Mace’s chief executive aims for £400m turnover by 2010 and targets USA
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Comment
Some strings attached
As the plan to build sustainable communities on public land begins to take shape, we should make social inclusion a condition for funding and planning permission
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Regeneration expert to advise Miliband
Communities and local government minister David Miliband has appointed a regeneration and local government expert as his first special adviser at the ODPM
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Features
Doing good by stealth
The new chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation is a quiet American. But Hank Dittmar’s lack of showiness is well suited to a charity that is aiming to slowly and subtly transform urban England.
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Jarvis appoints FM boss to oversee business sell-off
Support services group hires ex-ISG managing director to co-ordinate the sale of its accommodation service
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Mears boss starts work in buoy
Stuart Black officially took up the role of chief executive of social housing repair and maintenance business Mears this week.
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Rouse warns private firms to stop building ghettos
Commercial housebuilders threatened with loss of public funding unless they construct more mixed communities