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The Building Communties awards 2005
Welcome to the Building Communities Awards 2005. This is the fifth year of these awards, although the first under the new name. The name has been changed this year from the Building Homes Awards to the Building Communities Awards to reflect the rapidly evolving housebuilding environment. Along with the name ...
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Building intelligence Q2 2005: Ups and downs
Construction was a mixed bag in the second quarter of this year, reports Experian Business Strategies, as new work orders went up 12%, output dropped 13%, London’s R&M output declined and everywhere else’s increased …
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FeaturesDriving force
Five thousand workers lost their jobs in the tragic, well-publicised closure of MG Rover’s Longbridge factory. Now, there is a scheme to retrain them that could also help ease the construction industry’s skills crisis. A brilliant solution – so why won’t more firms jump on the bandwagon?
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FeaturesI’ll be seeing you …
Stephen Williams has just been appointed head of construction at the Health and Safety Executive. As Building discovered, he is a man with an intense interest in the industry – and plans personally to visit as many sites as possible.
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FeaturesThe defeated champions
Tessa Jowell has become the ministerial design champion. Building asks how she can succeed where so many have failed, while Peter Stewart, assesses if government is now wise to design
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Comment
Risky business
I refer to the articles on the PFI in your 23 September issue, and wonder whether the UK contracting industry will ever learn. PFI is not working as it could, agreed. But there’s no point blaming the public sector clients – that’s just too easy. It is the market that ...
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Something missing …
I am a black architect and was surprised, disappointed and somewhat concerned that Building’s cover page article on 16 September did not include any black or Indian graduates. This, I am sure you will agree, is unacceptable considering the demographic make-up of London in particular and the country in general. ...
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… but a fan gained
If the main problem faced by the industry is attracting young people (16 September), then the solution is right there on page 46.
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Ruskin and retentions
The letter from Peter Whitbread (16 September) on the subject of retentions requires a response.
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Same old story
As I read Tom Potbury’s article about age discrimination (16 September) I must confess to a wry smile.
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Pipe gripe
I was rather depressed to find that your review of the University College London Hospital (23 September) seemed to mention virtually every aspect of the hospital’s construction other than its drainage material.
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Early warning
Your article (26 August) on land designated for employment use being bought for affordable housing in London raises some interesting considerations.
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Galliford Try buys surveyor Pentland for up to £2.8m
Contractor and housebuilder Galliford Try has bought chartered surveyor Pentland for an initial sum of £1.1m, to be followed by a maximum additional payment of £1.7m, depending on future profits.
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Equion sells PFI stake for £6m
Equion, the investment vehicle wholly owned by John Laing, has sold its 50% stake in Defence Management Holdings to services company Serco for £5.9m.Defence Management won the PFI contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the Joint Services Command and Staff College in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, where construction was completed ...
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‘Property pensions’ set to boost housebuilding
The government’s plan to allow investors to include some kinds of residential property in tax-efficient pension plans is expected to lead to a boost in housebuilding next year.
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ODPM on brink of resolving ‘roof tax’ problems
Yvette Cooper, minister of housing, has given the go-ahead for a roof tax-style deal to kickstart housing development in Bedford.