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NewsFirms fined over lorry death
Two companies have been ordered to pay almost £800,000 in fines and costs after a driver was run over and killed by his own lorry
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NewsPlas Newydd: All hands to the pump
National Trust property in Wales is part of £35m green retrofit pilot scheme
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CommentMy digital life … Paul King
The Green Building Council chief executive on converting to Macs, guitar heroes of the sixties and seventies, and temperamental iPad Notes
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NewsBRE wins role on £4bn Chinese marina project
Consultant will provide sustainable building advice while client seeks further UK expertise
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CommentDoing business in Iraq: Tread carefully
A decade after the invasion of Iraq there are opportunities for UK firms in the country’s infrastructure sector. But they must be aware of the legal framework they will be working in
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NewsEight-month delay to £600m government framework
Exclusive: Firms face uncertainty as retendering for one of the largest public sector frameworks for consultants delayed
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CommentGreen rating systems: Bespoke solutions needed
An assessment of the problems with green building rating systems following last week’s feature article
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CommentPermitted development work will not help
Eric is getting in a right pickle (Pickles promises to revise home extensions plan, www.building.co.uk, 16 April 2013). This is a piece of ill thought-out legislation, which will not create more work for the building trade and will just cause a lot of neighbour disputes. There are already too many ...
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CommentDownward spiral continues with Osborne
The chancellor is to blame for blocking the industry’s recovery
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NewsFirst private finance schools worth £300m
Details emerge of first three batches of privately financed priority schools to come market
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CommentStop kicking up a fuss
The lawyers in this case raised a number of clever, interesting technical objections. Which were quite rightly dismissed. Let’s just stick to the facts, eh?
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CommentHansom: Out on the tiles
Nocturnal celebrations of a bacchanalian nature are a feature of this week’s hectic schedule - leaving more sober heads to advise on flood defences, though a junior minister puts a spanner in the works
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CommentThe next 170 years
Despite gloomy market forecasts this industry is making quiet progress and continues to innovate, and that deserves recognition
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CommentWonders & blunders with Mark Legg
Mark Legg is mesmerized by the fusion of old and new at King’s Cross but finds Croydon’s ‘formidable’ Lunar house an undignified example of modernist architecture
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NewsBam wins £27m batch of priority schools
Exclusive: Bam Construct has won a £27m batch of schools through the government’s flagship school building programme
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NewsCostain drops out of battle for May Gurney
Costain says it will not make a revised offer for May Gurney following Kier’s proposed £221m takeover of the firm
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FeaturesThe world's first eco-doll's house
This educational toy to encourage green awareness was not a favourite of George Osborne
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NewsKier gains support for May Gurney takeover
Kier secures early backing from around a third of May Gurney shareholders for proposed £221m takeover