All articles by Vern Pitt – Page 24
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Government's Green Deal jobs estimate falls by 35,000
Wildly varying estimates for job creation levels represent ‘best and worst case scenarios’, government claims
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Renewable heat subsidy to create 500,000 jobs
Incentives to increase the affordability of installations of renewable heat systems will result in 126,000 installations by 2020, claims government
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Use road pricing to fund infrastructure, says ICE
Road users should be charged more at peak times says report by Institution of Civil Engineers
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RIBA: Architects should charge extra for green design
Call from the RIBA’s director of practice to follow US model to create greater ‘transparency’
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Abu Dhabi payment raises hopes for Austin-Smith:Lord
Troubled architect received a part-payment of £2.4m from the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage late last week
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Atkins cuts over 800 UK staff as global profit rises
Most of the 878 staff lost from the UK business this year worked in Atkins’ transport division
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Shepherd Construction back in the black with £4m profit
Parent company Shepherd Group posts profit of £31.5m and turnover of £611m
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MPs back FIT campaign to protect 25,000 solar jobs
MPs joined 300 campaigners calling on government to change plans to cut solar feed-in tariff by 50%
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Give Highways Agency greater independence, review recommends
Greater commercial focus and changes to governance structure are the key to delivering savings, report says
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FITs cut could cost government £230m
Energy consultancy’s analysis shows huge tax loss to the Treasury if jobs are lost because of cuts to government subsidies for solar power
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Incentives question mark over Green Deal
Businesses will have to wait until Chancellor’s autumn statement to discover how the £14bn green retrofit scheme will be incentivised
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Willmott Dixon to build £33m Redcar leisure and business centre
Architects S&P and +3 and engineer Buro Happold are also lined-up to work on the project, which is due to start in the New Year.
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Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands win UCL campus job
Architect Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands is already engaged in masterplanning a £500m redevelopment of University College London’s existing site
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Comment
Solar industry lobbies MPs overs FITs cuts
Campaigners prepare to lobby MPs over the 50% cut in solar feed-in tariffs. Read live coverage here
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Shepherd doubles its annual profits
Contractor’s industrial division powers Shepherd to profits of £31.5m for the year to June 2011
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Government to offer £50bn of work online
Plans to move procurement online come as part of a radical shake-up of the public sector procurement process
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Thames Estuary airport gains Treasury support
Senior Tory figures are understood to be in favour of a island airport in the Thames Estuary, which would cost up to £50bn
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Outlook for architects' workload remains bleak
RIBA Future Trends survey says practices reluctant to take on new staff amid market uncertainty
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Features
Public sector cuts: Client feedback
Public sector clients slashed projects in response to the chancellor’s swingeing cuts. But as the results of the Constructionline ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ Index show, the pain is by no means over