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Treasury agrees to £20,000 ‘roof tax’
The Treasury has approved plans for a £20,000 “roof tax” on each new home in Milton Keynes.
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Developers line up to bid for £4bn stations overhaul
Stanhope, Helical Bar, British Land and Land Securities in line for work on Network Rail’s upgrade scheme.
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NewsRICS makes the commercial case for green buildings
Environment-friendly buildings offer high returns on investment and improve productivity, says RICS report
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NewsCPA warns over energy costs
The Construction Products Association has warned the government to sort out the UK’s energy supply as costs begin to bite into the margins of contractors.
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Chairman of Mace division banned from directorships
Jonathan Yurtsever, chairman of recruitment arm the People Group, will not challenge eight-year disqualification.
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NewsGleeds prefers limited status to LLP
Gleeds is to buck the recent trend among leading quantity surveyors by becoming a limited company rather than a limited liability partnership within the next five years.
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Treasury agrees to £20,000 ‘roof tax’
The Treasury has approved plans for a £20,000 “roof tax” on each new home in Milton Keynes.
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NewsChairman of Mace division banned from directorships
Jonathan Yurtsever, chairman of recruitment arm the People Group, will not challenge eight-year disqualification
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£15m Brighton hotel delayed
Myhotel Brighton, the exclusive hotel next to Brighton’s prize-winning Jubilee Library, has been delayed by nine months after its designs were overhauled.
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Developers line up to bid for £4bn stations overhaul
Stanhope, Helical Bar, British Land and Land Securities in line for work on Network Rail’s upgrade scheme
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‘Revolutionary’ Olympic skills database launched
Groundbreaking computer model will analyse number of skilled workers needed to build the 2012 Games
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CommentA nuclear spring
To plug the energy gap, Britain’s ageing nuclear power stations must be replaced. This is what government and industry has to do to get them up and running in time
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CommentWinning on penalties
Construction may one of the worst offending industries for wasting energy, but criminalising firms won’t necessarily protect the environment
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The dawning of an age …
Saturday night on Channel 4 boded well: baby off to bed nice and early, settle down with the wife and a nice glass of rioja, Kevin McCloud’s learned tones and a deserved early win for the Stealth House.
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… Crossed wires
… Crossed wiresThe Treasury castigates government contracts for being monstrously late and over budget.
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Strength in numbers
Ian Abley confuses co-operation with submissiveness in his attack on collaborative working (14 October).
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Nothing personal
Ian Abley’s column got me to challenge my thinking as a proponent of non-adversarial teamworking.
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Get to know each other better
I was interested to read recently published research by consultant Deloitte that highlighted the worrying yet unsurprising fact that “two-thirds of UK businesses do not even ask for detailed reporting” from suppliers.
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Don’t look up …
This is a photo from Khan el-Khalili in Cairo. The public (including us) thought nothing of walking under this JCB while it was in operation – it was being used for lifting concrete drainage sections. (It was a nice gesture that the guys stopped to smile at the camera.)
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FeaturesThe Dynamos
Your typical construction chief executive rises at 6am, goes for a run, eats a bowl of bran flakes, then has a day at work, an evening with clients and a couple of hours answering emails before retiring at 1am. Where do they get the energy from?