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NewsQuarter of sites failed March safety checks
Health and Safety Executive blitz on 2,014 construction sites focused on refurbishment and roofing work
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NewsBuilding bosses join calls to scrap National Insurance rise
Heads of JCB and Aggregate Industries are among 21 business leaders opposed to Labour policy
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NewsRow erupts over cost of new housing rules
Concerns raised about effect on output as HCA sets out raft of space and quality standards
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NewsCarbon reduction regs come into force
Wall Engineering first to sign up to carbon reduction commitment
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NewsContractor fights to clear name in £7.5m sapphire 'asset' row
Peter Rank & Sons becomes second building firm in 12 months to deceive banks with gemstone
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NewsBalfour Beatty set to win £66m fire PFI
Balfour's Mansell subsidiary is understood to have beaten Miller Construction to North West contract
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NewsMorgan EST wins £500m cable contract
Morgan Sindall's infratructure business chosen by E.ON for 10-year framework
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NewsGovernment to court global investors for green bank
Sovereign wealth and state pension funds targeted by Treasury for £2bn investment vehicle
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NewsEurocodes replace British Standards
Ten structural Eurocodes replaced old British Standards today
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NewsNightingale could be going for a song
Parent company Tribal wants to sell architect but doubts arise over how timing will affect price and whether anyone wants a health specialist
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New buildings in Haiti not safe, charities warn
Buildings under construction in Haiti will not be able to resist future earthquakes, experts have said, writes Roxane McMeeken.
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HSE fears cuts will make it ‘reactive’
The Health and Safety Executive has warned that it may be forced to abandon preventative work if its resources are cut after the election, despite the fear of more deaths when building work picks up.
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Comment
Bleak and tortured: Kapoor's Orbit is hardly an Olympic ideal
London’s newly unveiled Olympic sculpture has been lambsated by a wave of criticsm and bad publicity. Does it deserve it?
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NewsJarvis: At last it’s all over
Jarvis was building a name for itself in the railway sector, until the 2000 Potters Bar accident. Eight years later, the business has finally come off the rails
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FeaturesSpecialist costs steel and concrete
The structures trades have been some of the hardest hit by the recession. Simon Rawlinson and Mark Lacey of Davis Langdon examine how specialist contractors and the supply chain have faced up to the challenges
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CommentElectronic disclosure: Paying lawyers to look at porn
Because they get into a court case and have to disclose all kinds of electronic documents, no matter how embarrassing. And the cost of doing that can be spectacular. David Rogers and Debika Ray report on a growing problem
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CommentWhat politicians really think
It is in a government’s nature to cut capital spending before public revenue. But the Charter 284 cause can be served by appealing to politicians’ worst instincts
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CommentWonders & blunders
Richard Steer is staggered by an extraordinary structure built for the last Olympics, but is worried that London’s efforts will be blighted by its industrial past
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