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Green park
The Beechwood Business Park office scheme in Dover is believed to be the first office built to Passivhaus standards.
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Latest construction appointments - 12 March 2010
New East Manchester has appointed Ian Slater deputy chief executive for its regeneration arm
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Park your Tardis here: BBC's Cardiff Bay studio
Igloo Regeneration has lined up four contractors to bid for the construction of a £25m BBC studio in Wales
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Legal & General backs away from private rental initiative
Insurer will not invest hundreds of millions in £5bn scheme after Treasury fails to guarantee returns
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Barratt told recession no defence for mothballing scheme
Barratt could be forced to pay £9.5m after losing a landmark lawsuit over a development it shelved during the downturn
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Something to shout about
One of the best bits of news we’ve heard in a long time was delivered by Ed Miliband last week
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Amec sues Thames Water for unpaid bill
Amec Group is suing Thames Water Utilities for £1.1m, after the water company refused to pay it for construction and maintenance work
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Tony Douglas finds role at demolition firm Keltbray
Tony Douglas, the former chief operating officer of Laing O’Rourke, has been appointed a non-executive director of demolition contractor Keltbray
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No more repeats: Episode two of BBC Broadcasting House
With a very public dressing down still ringing in its ears, Britain’s most venerable broadcaster has a point to prove on phase two of the £1bn redevelopment of Broadcasting House
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Countdown to 2012: Our year on the Olympics
Catching up on the past 12 months in the life of Building's young 2012 team
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Deregulation: Fixing New Zealand’s £5bn leak
Cutting red tape is one thing. But total deregulation is about as sensible as turning on your bathtaps and going on holiday – as thousands of soggy Kiwis now know
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Insurance: Are you prepared to take the risk?
Insurers say they are suffering disproportionate losses from buildings built using modern construction methods. Unless the industry acts, says Thomas Lane, they may pull cover
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Cordon sanitaire: MAAP’s mental health facility
How do you make a mental health facility secure without it feeling like a prison? The answer MAAP Architects proposes is to turn the buildings themselves into a perimeter fence
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Off-site hospital
Yorkon has handed over what it claims to be the largest UK hospital to be built off site
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Movers and makers: 12 March 2010
Recent tests at BRE has confirmed that Hydropanel partition walls meet all the requirements of BS 5234-2: 1992 including criteria for stiffness, resistance to surface damage by a variety of objects and the effects of door slamming, as well as resistance to crowd pressure. It also underwent lightweight and heavyweight ...
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Water controls
Douglas Delabie, under its Chavonnet banner, has launched a range of water controls to help prevent hospital-acquired infections
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Washroom fittings
A number of products from Rada have been incorporated into a £270m healthcare project in Newcastle-upon-Tyne that will see services transferred to the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Freeman Hospital
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Mould-proof grouting
Weber is rolling out its mould-stop technology to a number of its popular grout products including Weber joint fine flex, Weber joint wide and Weber joint wide flex