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Appointments
ContractorsRegional construction group EBC has appointed Mark Hoyland commercial director for its Eastleigh and Reading offices.Tim Westwood (right) has joined Kier Regional as regional business development manager.Linford Building Group has appointed Steve Chinn marketing director. Ian Tyrls has been made design-and-build manager.Terry Whittingham has joined SOL Construction as business ...
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Cost Update
This quarterly analysis looks at prices for mechanical heating and labour rates for electrical contracting.
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A degree of skill
How a pilot course in construction and property aims to tackle skills shortages in the industry.
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Flagship enterprise
Green architecture, integrated community services, lifelong learning and lots of big drums are all showcased in Edward Cullinan Architects' Greenwich Millennium Village primary school.
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Fire-Resistant Facade
Schüco has designed a fire-resistant facade, the BF F30/G30, to prevent fire spreading between buildings or to create escape corridors within them.
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Revolution in retirement
McCarthy & Stone may be in the business of building retirement homes, but its attitude to IT is far from fuddy-duddy.
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Tim Walker
Prescott's site safety summit is only four days away, so it's no wonder the new boss of the Health and Safety Executive has his attention firmly fixed on construction.
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Skanska hits top with £149m in a month
Swedish contractor won most work in January, but Bovis Lend Lease still tops annual league.
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Appointments
ContractorsNottinghamshire-based civil engineering and building company North Midland Construction has appointed Mike Payne and Martin Queally general managers for their cabling and ducting division.Stephen Kelly has been appointed development manager for Morrison Developments. He will be based in Glasgow.Roger Mabey has been appointed to the board of Bovis Lend Lease ...
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Chaos theory
You can tell at a glance there's madness in the method used to design this canopy over Melbourne's Federation Square. Its structure is based on the mathematical model that describes the pattern of patchwork quilts …
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Reinforced concrete learning package
Products - On-site insulation for wall panels, lintels for a police station and a CD-ROM guide to reinforced concrete feature in this structures special.
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Designers in the safety spotlight
In the third of our series in the run-up to John Prescott's safety summit, Building asks if safety is a matter of design, and if designers are doing enough to combat site deaths.
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Faults on the line
London and Quadrant Housing Trust's repairs hotline was already overstretched when its maintenance budget was frozen. So it's developed an internet service to make everyone's life easier.
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Life on Mars
It may sound like science fiction, but the prototype of Foreign Office Architects' house for Mars is about to be unveiled as part of Nasa's Future Homes display in Sweden.
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Supporting rights
Tara Meagher, of law firm Beale and Company, clarifies a worker's new 'right to be accompanied'.
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Sheriff of the skyline
When Carl Powell arrived as Westminster's planning director, developers expected a high-rise bonanza. But the Texan has spent the last two years cutting them down to size.
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If you think it's bad here…
In the second of Building's safety series in the run-up to John Prescott's summit, we look across the Channel to see how Britain's site death record compares with the rest of Europe.
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Appointments
ContractorsRodger Tellis has been appointed construction director of Berkshire-based Greatworth Properties.Carillion has appointed Andrew Trewick (right) general manager of Nelso, its national partitioning business based in Walsall. HousebuildersGriff Marshalsay, previously with Berkeley Homes, has been appointed managing director for Charles Church's South-east division. Scott Bonnell has joined the southern Home ...
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The pinnacle, limehouse basin, london
Products - A smoke-detection system for saunas, plus The spec on the pinnacle of the Limehouse Basin development in London Docklands.