All ɫTV articles in 2007 issue 49 – Page 5
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Erinaceous review imminent
Beleaguered property group Erinaceous insisted this week that it would present the results of its strategic review before Christmas.
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Edens Edge
Grimshaw this week revealed the design for the £70m dome known as The Edge at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
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‘Too little money on offer,’ say Gateway corporations
Development agencies asked for twice the £210m grant announced at Thames Gateway Forum
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French contractors dominate European market
Vinci heads league with sales of £16bn – but no UK firms appear in the top 10
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Credit crunch drives construction shares to year lows
Barratt worst hit as price slumps more than 50% in three months
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Comment
Competition comment
The quote in your article “Choose Wisely” (16 November, page 72) was inaccurate – we had won the RIBA’s Brooks Road Low Rise housing competition run for Newham council.
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Features
‘Perversely, some see us as a burden’
Project managers are the fastest growing force in construction but also one of the most divisive. Do they expertly pull the strings or tangle projects in knots? Stephen Kennett canvassed the opinions of some well-placed, if occasionally exasperated, observers
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It’s official: London is most expensive place on Earth to build
London had the highest tender prices in the world last year, according to a report by Rider Levett Bucknall.
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Comment
Rule Britannia
There is cause to celebrate, because – despite efforts to prove otherwise – ours is still a country of mad dogs, prudish, tea-gulping Englishmen and the best, if not cleverest, eco-warriors in the world
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Vaux brewery offer
Urban Regeneration Company Sunderland Arc has made an offer to buy the controversial former Vaux Brewery site in the city from Tesco.
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Comment
A no brainer
Less than 10% of construction firms train apprentices and only eight of the 63 largest companies offer regular employment to an apprentice through ConstructionSkills.
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Comment
ɫTV buys a pint … for BPTW Partnerships
Those good folk at architect BPTW know how to have a good time – as you can see from the roll-call of booze above.
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Willmott Dixon poaches council boss
Willmott Dixon has recruited the head of energy and sustainable procurement at Haringey council in north London to head its sustainability business.
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Baqus on brink of following Sweett onto stock market
Quantity surveyor Baqus is set to become a plc in the next fortnight.
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British consultant BACTEC to clear explosives in Lebanon
A British consultant has won a UN contract to clear explosives in Lebanon next year.
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MPs back Merton rule bill
A bill to give councils the right to implement the so-called “Merton rule” on renewable energy is to be put forward by MPs today.
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Audit office to probe Hips fiasco
The National Audit Office is to launch an inquiry into the failed attempt to bring in home information packs this summer.
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Greater London Authority attacks ‘mad’ housing bill clause
Developers and councils may be able to use a a clause in the Housing and Regeneration Bill to avoid building social rented housing on their sites, according to Ken Livingstone’s Greater London Authority.
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Atkins and Balfour to bid for Tube return
Atkins and Balfour Beatty, the firms that led the failed Metronet consortium, are to try to resurrect their relationship with London Underground by bidding for a place on a future tube maintenance framework.