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FeaturesWinging it: Eddie the Eagle on sport and building
Eddie the Eagle, aka Michael Edwards, soared to international stardom when he flopped in the 1988 Winter Olympics ski jumping event. After the glow faded, he finally came back to earth as a Gloucestershire builder. Emily Wright asked him about a life of brilliant improvisation
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Greg Verhoef: Get workers to think for themselves
If you want workers to be safe on site, you have to get them to think for themselves. So, we need less bureaucracy and more reliance on our natural sense of danger, says Greg Verhoef
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NewsRenewed energy: Willmott Dixon's primary care centre
Willmott Dixon’s £17m project for Sunderland Teaching primary care trust aims to become the UK’s first BREEAM “outstanding” primary care centre next month
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NewsContractors attack rise of ‘eBay’ tendering
Fears raised over growth of tendering system that allows bidders to compare and revise price
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Brookfield to pay CBUK £3m
The ruling that Cleveland Bridge UK must pay Brookfield Construction £4.2m after its legal battle over Wembley stadium has been partly overturned
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Hammerson to favour French contracts over new UK work
Hammerson is to focus on French rather than UK schemes in 2010 it revealed in its 2009 results this week
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NewsInto the deep: Snøhetta's marine lab
Norwegian architect Snøhetta has designed this 16,000m² laboratory as part of a research centre for marine technology company Marintek
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Proposal to pay off Nimbys slammed as ‘cheque-book’ planning
Tory proposals to allow developers to come to financial arrangements with objecting neighbours in order to secure their support have been denounced as “cheque-book planning”
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The man from Rio
Alexandre Techima, the infrastructure manager of Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympics programme, is the latest speaker to confirm his attendance at Building’s Global Infrastructure Forum in May.
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Stamp duty changes
Stamp duty must be revised to encourage private investment in new homes for rent, according to MPs
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Affordable homes
Housing minister John Healey this week signed off £500m of spending under the National Affordable Housing Programme to pay for 8,000 new affordable homes. He said 3,000 would be available through the HomeBuy scheme.
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Nakheel chief leaves Dubai firm
Nakheel’s chief commercial officer has left the state-linked Dubai developer, as its parent Dubai World tries to restructure $22bn (£14.3bn) of debt
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McCann Homes finance boss buys out chief executive
The former finance director of £73m–turnover family-run housebuilder McCann Homes has bought out the chief executive as part of a major restructure
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NewsMysterious cities of gold: Beijing's energy-producing park
The Chicago and China offices of architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have designed a plan for an energy-producing central park in Beijing’s Dawangjing district
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NewsParis of the east
Piling works by German building firm Bauer International FZE have begun for the Louvre Abu Dhabi
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Tories plan to lift lid on PFI deals
The government’s procurement agency is working up plans to publish the contents of contracts with public bodies
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Two firms eye Earls Court demolition job
Plans to tear down the iconic Earls Court exhibition centre in west London will gather pace next month with the appointment of Keltbray or McGee on the estimated £25m demolition job
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NewsStacking up nicely: WAM's Architecten's Inntel hotel
The £13m, 12-storey Inntel hotel in the Dutch town of Zaandam near Amsterdam is nearing completion
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Latest construction appointments: 26 February 2010
Two senior managers, Kevin Nishioka and Dawn Timan, have joined Ernst and Young’s real estate tax practice.