All articles by Vern Pitt – Page 24
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Laing O’Rourke wins £100m Olympic media centre job
Contractor picked to transform media centre into a technology hub
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Treasury slashes £7bn from green levies
Budget latest: Move designed to boost energy intensive industries
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Four contractors picked for £1.5bn Heathrow work
Exclusive: Four firms make the cut for massive programme of works, but Laing O’Rourke, Skanska and Vinci are among those that miss out
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Haydon sale hits profit at Mears
But social housing provider reports rise in profit from continuing operations
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T Clarke reports 41% rise in profit
Chief executive warns there will be no ‘meaningful recovery’ in the UK construction market until 2015
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Contractors applaud faster HS2 delivery plan
But lawyer warns starting the second phase of the line three years early may not be possible
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Higgins plans to slash HS2 timescale by three years
Sir David Higgins’ report recommends private investment in redesigned Euston scheme
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Help to Buy to be extended to 2020
Chancellor announces plans to prolong the life of the housing loan scheme
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Features
Interview: Neil Martin
It’s been all change in Lend Lease’s European business, with recent years marked by management instability and falling profits. Can the managing director of its construction arm Neil Martin succeed where others have failed and turn the business around?
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ECO cuts will cost 14,000 industry jobs
Government admits proposed changes to Energy Companies Obligation will slash energy efficiency spending by £900m and create 14,000 fewer jobs
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Comment
Mipim dispatch: The dawn of a new era?
This year’s Mipim conference may herald a new era for construction in London – with new problems to go with it, writes our man in Cannes
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Pidgley warns housing becoming ‘political football’
Mipim latest: Chair of developer Berkeley Group implores politicians not to turn housing into 2015 election campaign issue
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Scape reveals new £1bn infrastructure framework
Exclusive: New framework will be awarded to single contractor and will focus on flood defence and other civils projects
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Mace and Kier hit out at project bank accounts
Bosses warn main contractors will hike their prices if clients demand they use project bank accounts to pay their supply chain
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Ministers told it's 'critical' to draft Part L 2016 now
Exclusive: Industry leaders unite to urge action after government fails to schedule meeting to discuss future of energy regulations
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Government admits its retrofit cuts will cost 14,000 jobs
Government’s impact assessment on its proposed changes to Energy Companies Obligation shows spending will be slashed by £900m, costing 14,000 jobs
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Worker killed on London's Crossrail project
Sprayed concrete worker killed by falling concrete in Crossrail tunnel
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Olympic village handover faces further delay
Exclusive: Conversion of athletes’ accommodation into residential properties running three months behind schedule
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Galliford Try faces £700k claim over office ‘leaks’
Contractor’s subsidiary accused of building “defectively designed and constructed” office blocks