All Building articles in 2005 issue 01 – Page 3
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Industry struggles with latest regulations
Fresh rules and government legislation that come into force this month are causing major problems across the industry
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Comment
Interview: Rupert Jackson
Just three months into the job, the judge in charge of the Technology and Construction Court has already established a reformist agenda.
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NewsIsambard’s Kingdom
Architect Cartwright Pickard, in partnership with structural engineer Dewhurst Macfarlane, has won a design competition to work up designs for a School of Engineering and Design at Brunel University.
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Comment
Punishing penalty
P&O operated a freight service and a yard at the port at Liverpool. In the yard P&O employees loaded and off-loaded containers to and from ferries. The containers were lifted from the HGVs by large trucks. An employee of P&O standing in the yard was struck by one of these ...
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Comment
Playing by the same rules
I read with interest the article on the Glendoe hydroelectric power project in Scotland (3 December, page 10).
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Terror of the tape
Bullets won’t stop them. They can control heat, electricity, fire – even time itself. They are the regulations pouring out of Whitehall and Brussels, and there’s hardly a business in the industry that’s safe. But is there a way of turning them to your advantage?
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Workers for UK companies among victims of tsunami
British firms operating in Asia assess their human loss, including 29 staff working for consultant Halcrow.
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UK firms pledge assistance in repairing tsunami damage
Millions of pounds in cash and resources promised by construction companies in aftermath of Asian disaster.
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NewsJarvis staff face bleak year as job cuts continue
Morale at support services group Jarvis was low this week despite upbeat statements from chief executive Alan Lovell over Christmas.
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Norwest Holst wins £8.5m contract for White City station
Rail station will form part of major transport node at the White City Development in London.
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Jarvis's £539m losses explained
Break down of Jarvis’s 2004 losses reveals a loss of £199m in the firm’s accommodation arm.
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Kier sells stake in Neath Port Talbot hospital for £5m
Contractor doubles the value of its original investment and holds on to FM contract at hospital.
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NewsTaylor Woodrow predicts record profits
Housebuilder says there are signs that housing market will pick up in second half of 2005.
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T. Clarke snaps up Smith Contracting Services for £4.2m
Electrical contractor expands into Scotland with purchase of 170-employee firm.
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NewsGrowing commercial activity boosts prospects for 2005
Profit expecations in the construction industry are at a five-year high according to a RICS survey.
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Bovis Homes set for record profits
Housebuilder predicts a healthy housing market in 2005 after annoucing it will make record profit for the year ended December 2004.
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Wolseley beefs up UK distribution network
£100m investment in distribution network will include a new national distribution centre in Leamington Spa.
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NewsTUC leader calls for pensions shake-up
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber says employer contribution pensions are damanging the morale of construction workers.
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NewsArup to engineer European Patent Office HQ
Arup and Belgium architect XdGA have won the competition to design the European Patent Office headquarters
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NewsHolcim considers takeover of Aggregate
Aggregate Industries says that shareholders should accept an offer of 138p per share if it is made.
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