All ɫTV articles in 04 December 2009 – Page 4

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    Abbey returns to profit

    2009-12-04T10:44:00Z

    Housebuilding division of Anglo-Irish group contributes to £3.7m pre-tax profit but plant hire business makes a loss

  • Bellway
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    Bellway's reservations up 51%

    2009-12-04T10:32:00Z

    Trading update shows improvement for the four months to end of November on last year mainly in south England

  • ɫTV

    ISG predicts upturn in London market

    2009-12-04T09:44:00Z

    Chair of fit-out firm says there are signs of recovery in the capital but that activityin its regional businesses are likely to reduce

  • Tony Pidgley
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    Optimistic Berkeley buys 12 sites in six months

    2009-12-04T09:18:00Z

    Housebuilder’s chair Tony Pidgley says there are signs of stabilization in London and South-east market

  • ɫTV

    Norman Askew leaves Taylor Wimpey

    2009-12-04T08:52:00Z

    Chair of housebuilder to step down from board by the end of 2010

  • Safety blunder
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    Fancy a quick game of bridge?

    2009-12-04T01:35:00Z

    Stefan Barron came across this distinctly unsafe conduct when on holiday in Ljubljana, Slovenia. We suspect that, in addition to the obvious lack of a harness, EU regs may take issue with using mains electricity underwater

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Where there’s smoke

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    We won’t know for some time the details of the devastating fire in Peckham last week

  • Rosie Olley
    Comment

    Small wonder

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Since your article on my and two other graduates’ search for a job was published, (11 September, page 34) I have spent most of my time looking for my perfect surveying job, which I had begun to believe did not exist

  • Paul Morrell
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    Morrell’s low-carbon team meets

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    The low-carbon construction innovation and growth team, led by new chief construction adviser Paul Morrell, met for the first time on Tuesday

  • The £29m North Leamington school, designed by Robothams Architects, has opened
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    Spa quality: North Leamington school

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    The £29m North Leamington school, designed by Robothams Architects, has opened

  • Rupert Choat
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    Join the queue

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    The scramble for cash has only just begun

  • ɫTV

    Microsoft hotshot joins Morgan

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Patrick De Smedt, former chair of Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Asia, has joined Morgan Sindall as a non-executive director

  • Sir Michael Latham
    Comment

    Vive la restoration: Sir Michael Latham on the importance of heritage stock

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    What better time than now, when the construction of new buildings is at a low ebb, to focus on the restoration and maintenance of heritage structures

  • A generous hub accommodates a buzz of social activities at the Maartenshof care centre in Groningen in the Netherlands
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    HAPPI thoughts: a radical rethink of homes for older people

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    A panel of housing experts that goes by the name of HAPPI has come up with a radical rethink of this country’s approach to providing homes for older people. Martin Spring takes a look at its findings

  • Features

    Raising the green standard

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Bennetts Associates went home a double winner as construction’s most eco-friendly practitioners were honoured at ɫTV’s Sustainability Awards

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom: Gift of the gab

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    The silver tongues of the industry have been a-wagging of late, and would have you believe that the Titanic is unsunk, Paul is John and the RICS never changes its mind

  • ɫTV

    Stalled Foster hotel to restart

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Construction work on the stalled Silken hotel in London, designed by Foster + Partners, is expected to restart in January after bank BBVA decided to develop the scheme rather than sell it

  • Comment

    In Latham’s footsteps

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Paul Morrell may not be a “fan of partnering” but I trust he will do all he can, as chief construction adviser, to resist the swing back to pre-Latham forms of procurement

  • Comment

    Fire safety first

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    BBC London’s recent exposé on fire safety risks at social housing blocks doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Across the UK’s social housing sector, awareness and understanding of the requirements of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2006 (RRFSO) is worryingly low

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    Payment rules: Financial mechanics

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    The new Construction Act may be but a distant prospect, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make a few educated guesses as to how its payment rules will work