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We gotta rep to protect
It has been brought to our attention that your publication (10 October, page 95) used the term “formica” in a manner that could be interpreted to mean decorative plastic laminates in general.
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A Christmas cheer
On behalf of our charity Wishes 4 Kids, I would like to thank you and all those involved for the generous donation of £6,000 that was raised during Building’s poker tournament in October. We decided to use the money to grant the wishes of six very poorly children.
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CommentSafety blunders: Dances with death
We had an astonishing selection of entries to our health and safety blunders competition in 2008. Here is our selection of the best, which reveal how construction workers around the world laughed in the face of danger and demonstrated shocking brutality towards trees…
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CommentCountdown to Christmas!
Regardless of our straitened circumstances, fun must be had. Chris Addison explains how, with a bit of ingenuity and a set of crayons, we can make the most of what we have
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CommentBuilding buys a pint... for Quattro Design Architects
This must be some sort of a record. No, not the drinks tally, which is tame by some standards, but the distance that tonight’s group has travelled. Representatives from architect Quattro Design have made the trip all the way from the West Country – Bristol and Gloucester to be exact.
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CommentComplete baubles
Plenty of seasonal fare here: a ghost story that Dickens would have been proud of, at least one joke worthy of a Christmas cracker, 10 Santas, and a well-earned nap in a snoozarium
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FeaturesBuilding's Review of the Year 2008
We know, we know, the year we’ve just had was about as enjoyable as the tooth-drilling scene from Marathon Man. But it was certainly dramatic, and if you look hard enough, you might even find one or two Frank Capra moments to celebrate. Building presses the rewind button
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CommentSleeping through it all
When we published our third issue of this year with the cover line “The slump of 2008”, few of us could have predicted just how quickly the water would rise around the construction industry.
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NewsMerrily on high
Kier Group has brought festive spirit to Parliament Square by decking out a crane on its UK Supreme Court site in Christmas lights.
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NewsVictory in Vienna
Sir Peter Cook and Zaha Hadid have won design competitions for two of the five buildings at Vienna Business University’s £225m campus.
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2012 press centre to stay put
A deal with developer Westfield to move the 300,000ft2 Olympic press centre, part of the £385m media centre, to the Stratford City development is unlikely to go ahead, according to Olympic sources.
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BAA break-up
BAA could be forced to sell Stansted, Edinburgh and Gatwick airports after the Competition Commission confirmed proposals to break up the company.
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Bath Spa legal action
Carillion and Grimshaw are being sued for £21m by Bath and North-east Somerset council over the Bath Spa project.
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Major contractors join new trade body
Mace, Carillion and Balfour Beatty are among the first companies to sign up to the UK Contractors Group, the new trade association to be launched in January.
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NewsBourne again
Sheppard Robson has received planning permission for the £40m Lansdowne campus at Bournemouth & Poole College.
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Latest construction appointments - 19 December 2009
WSP names new associate director and associate in South-east
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20,000 new homes stand empty across the UK, ministers told
More than 20,000 newly built private homes are unsold in the UK, senior industry figures have told the government.
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SMEs face 120-day payment wait
Subcontractors are having to wait more than 120 days for payment as the downturn hits construction supply chains, it has emerged.
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NewsWell, well, well
This £16m Well Being Centre in Belfast integrates health, social services and leisure facilities.