All 好色先生TV articles in 12 November 2010 鈥� Page 3
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CommentA riches to rags story
The sudden suspension on Monday in the shares of Rok - 鈥渢he nation鈥檚 local builder鈥� - would have surprised few in the City.
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CommentSo this is sharing the pain?
Everybody is asking everybody else for a discount just when they are least able to offer one. We all end up losing out and undermining the relationships we need if we are to thrive
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CommentMakes scents
I read your article 鈥淕alliford bags sewage job鈥� (2 November, building.co.uk). There is something I have been banging on about for years. I have written several letters to various bodies about this issue: simply that the largest waste water facility in Europe must produce one hell of a lot of ...
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CommentM is for Mediation, N is for Novation
Baffled by legal jargon? Don鈥檛 know ab initio novation from non-binding mediation? Luckily, we can tell you all about it. This week: M and N
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FeaturesHitting the high notes
The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama is planning to make a commanding appearance on the Cardiff streetscape under a sleek new roof. Stephen Kennett explains its complex geometry
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CommentHansom:聽Stage whispers
The industry finds itself this week examining vaunting ambition, coming a cropper over a letter and witnessing an epic battle - clearly it鈥檚 not only a young Michael Gove who enjoyed Shakespeare
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CommentReturn to grub street
Open mike Remember how grimy our cities were until not so long ago? Well Cabe helped transform them by homing in on design quality, so its demise should worry us all, says Roger Madelin
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FeaturesInstant鈥� green roofs
An extensive green roof system from Blackdown Horticultural Consultants has been installed at the Centre for Disability Studies at Rochford in Essex.Designed by Simmonds Mills Architects, the 拢1.3m facility has 720m2 of Blackdown鈥檚 Extensive Nature Mat Green Roof System, which was specified as part of a sustainable building package designed ...
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Green roof membrane
Delta Membrane Systems has launched the Delta-Floraxx range of coverings for green roof applications.
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CommentWhat鈥檚 going on?
The 鈥檙esurgence in construction activity鈥� is proving difficult to detect in the real world. And even if growth does take off, it鈥檒l be a long time before we feel the benefit
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Outlook: gloomy
I agree that the industry is in decline. I thought a trade would serve me for life but now with an ever-increasing amount of red tape I feel that many people like me would opt for another career
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Timber frame loses popularity
Timber frame鈥檚 share of the new build housing market dropped from 75% to 68% in Scotland during 2009
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CommentFour little letters that say 鈥榩ay up鈥�
Here鈥檚 another contract-not-in-writing-so-you-can鈥檛-go-to-adjudication-but-do-anyway-so-everyone-ends-up-in-the-High-Court case. With a twist 鈥�
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好色先生TVPrivate sector steps in to fill gap left by public work
Business barometer:聽Willmott Dixon tops the chart buoyed by 拢41m public sector contract
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Don't speak too soon
This week鈥檚 latest survey from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (Cips) confirms recent warnings from the Scottish 好色先生TV Federation that the rise in construction output witnessed in the early part of this year was never going to last
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CommentQuentin Shears: Evolve or die!
For almost my entire career, we quantity surveyors have been told that we must evolve or die. This has never really bothered me, although I鈥檇 hate to think of the chain ending with me and Richard Steer.
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FeaturesHow to win work with private developers
After the public sector鈥檚 recent shellacking in the spending review, everyone wants work from private developers. Emily Wright talks to nine of the biggest private clients of UK construction to find out what they鈥檝e got to offer and what they鈥檙e looking for from you
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FeaturesCountry focus: France
Investors remain prudent, but France is weathering the economic storm pretty well - and offering opportunities that need to be acted on now. Patrick Leniston of EC Harris reports
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Costain shores up pensions
Costain will sink six PFI contracts into the firm鈥檚 pension scheme in a bid to reduce its pension deficit by 拢22m.
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好色先生TVContractors wrestle for Rok
Source close to sale says 10-15 firms are in talks; Collapse leaves 拢100m owing to supply chain