All ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV articles in 14 May 2021 – Page 2
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Features
Costing Steelwork 17: Market update
Costing Steelwork is a series from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork. This quarter provides a market update and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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Information - ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Digital Edition: 14 May 2021
PRISON BREAK - Bodmin jail now welcomes guests / MATERIAL WORLD - Shortage of key products is putting construction’s economic recovery at risk / BACK TO WORK - It’s not that offices will disappear more that they will have to be reinvented / KAY HUGHES The design director of ...
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Kier completes £241m equity raise less than nine hours after announcing it
Firm to use money to eat into £436m debt pile
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Countryside profit falls on fire safety writedown
Revenue at housebuilder soars but site sales and forward orders drop back
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Balfour on track to hit profit target as firm brings in former ITV boss as new chairman
Lord Charles Allen takes up post in July
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Equity raise and housebuilding sale set to rake in £350m for Kier by middle of next month
Contractor announces promised details of £241m cash call
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HS2 launches first giant tunnelling machine to dig under Chiltern Hills
2000-tonne machine named after Florence Nightingale will operate as a self-contained underground factory
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Industry demands urgent clarity over planning reforms
Ex-PM attacks government proposals as Queen’s Speech puts planning Bill at centre of legislative timetable
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Architect wins Stratford urban design framework
Brief comparable in scale to recent projects at King’s Cross and London Bridge stations
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British Steel hiatus prompts warnings about bigger jobs being hit
Manufacturer not taking new structural steel orders because of ‘extreme’ demand
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McAlpine to double civils and infrastructure work as covid bill sends it to £27m loss
Chief executive Paul Hamer tells ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV he wants firm to take advantage of government’s spending commitment with construction
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Comment
Countdown to COP26: A good start – but still a long way to go
As momentum builds towards COP26, developers are making impressive-sounding commitments with their net zero pathways and strategies
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Galliford Try starts on £10m makeover of Perry Barr station ahead of Commonwealth Games
Scheme likened by one councillor to a ‘high quality garden shed’
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Comment
Thoughts on the Planning Bill
The bill, which appeared in the Queen’s Speech this week, contains a wealth of provisions, many controversial
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Features
Bodmin Jail: unlocking the potential of a piece of Cornish history
Abandoned in 1927 and left to ruin for almost a century, it took a team of brave (or foolhardy?) developers to decide that Bodmin Jail had the potential to become a hotel and tourist attraction. Bats, pigeons, neighbouring builders and covid-19 ensured that realising their vision was easier said ...
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Light at the end of the tunnel as Crossrail finally enters key testing phase
Delayed railway due to open in first half of next year
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Construction growth returns to pre-covid level but materials shortages threaten to blunt recovery
Dark clouds remain but latest ONS figures reveal industry output has hit 18 month high
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Comment
Give us the tools and we will finish the job
As the UK economy goes up a gear, there’s plenty of construction work – but where are the materials to do it with?
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Features
The urgency of now: how can construction meet its green targets?
A report by the Climate Change Committee sets out a host of ambitious carbon reduction targets and points to where resources need to be focused. Thomas Lane looks at three of the areas of most interest to construction and assesses what it will take to meet the targets