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NewsNetwork of wind turbines shut down after design flaw found
Quiet Revolution’s helical machines hit by moisture leak and critical report from Southwark council
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NewsTraining body reviews grants after £10m loss
ConstructionSkills set to cut training grants to firms as multimillion-pound loss announced for the second year in a row
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NewsOlympic park legacy company still to clarify remit
New chief executive admits large parts of the body's budget and remit are still being negotiated
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NewsHCA funding cut puts paid to Greenwich school plans
Hopes that agency would fund removal of gasometer abandoned after £70m cut to its budget
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NewsConstruction Bill amendment frees up PFI lending
Last-minute amendment as bill passed by Commons will reduce investment risk for PFI consortiums
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NewsGreen experts attack adviser’s role
Government’s brief for chief construction adviser role criticised for too little focus on sustainability
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Forecasts suggest some rays of hope, but huge uncertainty remains
For those with an optimistic nature there was some good news to be seen in the latest set of industry forecasts with both the Construction Products Association and Hewes trimming how much they feel output in the industry will fall.Indeed the three forecasts came closer together in this round of ...
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NewsGreen light for 50MW biomass plant in Tees Valley
Aker Solution will develop £200m green power station to supply 80,000 homes with energy
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You've hardly changed at all
Constructing Excellence’s review of the progress we’ve made in the 11 years since Sir John Egan, who was chairman of BAA at the time, published his report should come with a health warning: reading this may cause severe depression.The review, Never Waste a Good Crisis, was put together by an ...
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Pessimism postponed
Bellway boss John Watson is naturally a glass half-empty kind of guy and was in “muted recovery” mode at the housebuilder’s full-year results this week.Yes reservations were down from 6,556 to 4,380 and the average selling price fell 9% to £154,005. And yes the company posted the first loss in ...
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NewsThe nesting instinct
Charles Bosher spotted this creative contraption somewhere west of Reading
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FeaturesDefence Technical College: building a Welsh town from scratch
A £700m military college the size of a small town, to be built in the next four years. Not so clever now, are we? Capita, you take the training facilities, Brownrigg the living quarters. HLM, you’re with me. Now ’op to it!
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CommentFee rates: What's a lawyer worth?
Lawyers are discounting fees and moving away from hourly rates, but limits on them taking a share of sums recovered in a dispute may disappear
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Appointing consultants: Bully-boy tactics
The suspicion is growing that public authorities are using their dominant position to impose onerous conditions on consultants’ appointments. It’s the last thing the industry needs
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CommentAdjudication awards: Logical deductions
If a party loses an adjudication and is ordered to pay up, can it set this sum off against anything it thinks it is owed from a subsequent adjudication award?
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FeaturesFirst aid kit: rebuilding after natural disasters
As eastern Asia counts the cost of yet another natural disaster, Roxane McMeeken reports on a British-designed housing system that needs no training to put together and could prove invaluable to the rebuilding process
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Ventilation systems
Vent-Axia has expanded its Lo-Carbon series of energy-efficient ventilation products with the launch of a range of low-energy DC residential fans
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Solar hot water heating
Viridian Solar has developed Cirrus, a solar heating system suitable for installing in tall residential blocks
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Stormwater management
Wavin has enhanced its AquaCell stormwater management systems with the introduction of the AquaCell Plus. The unit is designed for use in extra deep installations or in conjunction with AquaCell Core and Lite to make it easy to inspect the installation with CCTV cameras
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Complete building envelopes
An integrated external building envelope, delivered by ICF-Tech walls, Sheerframe windows and Masterdor doorsets, is being used on 12 Code for Sustainable Homes level five dwellings for Woking Borough Homes