All ɫTV articles in 12 November 2010 – Page 4

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    Construction firms spared squeeze on government jobs

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Cabinet Office will demand efficiency savings not price cuts from building contractors

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    Common mistakes in ... multiparty disputes

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    In the third in a series on dos and don’ts on major projects, Ben Mullard offers his tips on how to better your chances of victory in multiparty disputes

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    Insurance giants left in the lurch by Rok collapse

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Axa, Tesco and Aegas eye alternative suppliers; Sale of social housing division speeded up

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    ISG targets US retail clients

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    ISG is targeting high-profile retail and commercial clients in the US for the first time as part of a new strategy to win work with America-based businesses across the globe

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    What went wrong at Rok? The City view

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    “Hindsight is a wonderful thing,” says Andrew Brown, an analyst at Panmure Gordon, “but Rok’s first major profit warning was two years ago, related to the slowdown in their regional contracting business.”

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    Circle line

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    In the 1991 recession, I joined the last London Underground major project team for the Jubilee line extension.

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    Regional plans ruling will not be challenged

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    The government will not appeal a High Court ruling this week that the communities secretary Eric Pickles acted unlawfully in scrapping the regional plans which set housing targets across councils in England

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    Are contractors putting the squeeze on the supply chain?

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    In a disturbing trend subcontractors are being asked to reduce costs and even make upfront payments or risk being removed from main contractors’ supplier lists. Coercion or market reality?

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    Cedar shingles

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    John Brash western red cedar shingles have been used on the new Booths supermarket in Hesketh Bank near Preston, to create a building that sits comfortably in its semi-rural location

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    Capita restructure

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Capita Symonds has restructured its business, cutting its divisions from four to three and rebranding seven recent acquisitions.

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    Cameron's trade visit helps UK firms land China work

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Benoy, Arup and David Lock win lucrative contracts following prime minister’s mission

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    SFO means business

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    It is sometimes said compliance with the new Bribery Act is impractical in the construction sector (“Where the buck stops”, 29 October, page 34)

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    Bovis warns of uncertainty

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder Bovis Homes has seen a rise in profit margins but has warned of “uncertainty concerning the near term direction of house prices”.

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    Hammerson's Vinod Thakrar: Think I’ll bite?

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Time was when some contractors found Hammerson such an exacting client, they steered clear. Now Vinod Thakrar, the man in charge of its supply chain, has them lining up to talk to him. Luckily for them, he’s after fresh blood

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    My digital life: Mark Bew

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Are you into social networking?

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    Potters Bar firms prosecuted

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Jarvis and Network Rail will be prosecuted over the Potters Bar rail disaster, which killed seven people in 2002 after a train derailed.

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    LandSecs eyes distressed assets to increase work

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Developer Land Securities aims to increase the value of its development pipeline by up to £500m over the next three years by targeting distressed properties across the UK

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    Glen Howells Architects: In the Lime light

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Glenn Howells Architects has redesigned the public square outside Liverpool Lime Street Station

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    Anti-pollution roof systems

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Icopal has launched the Eco-Activ roofing range. The product line-up includes Noxite, a flexible roof waterproofing membrane made with recycled bitumen, which is then coated with a granular titanium dioxide finish that turns harmful nitrogen oxides in the air into harmless nitrates.

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    Ice age

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Samsung Construction and Hugh Broughton Architects have completed a competition entry for a new Antarctic base