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FeaturesSpotlight: Utilities
As a recent NFB survey has found, connecting your site to gas, water and electricity can be a real headache for contractors. Brian Moone and Bob Hollingsworth explain the form
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CommentWhat is to be done?
Do you remember the joke doing the rounds in the last recession? What do you say to an architect? “Big Mac and fries, please.”
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CommentOut with the old
As the autumn trees are changing, we turn over a new leaf, with a different housing minister, some original vocabulary, a fresh-look logo and the option to go for tapas
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FeaturesBuilding's 2008 Poker Kings tournament: three of a kind
Building’s 2008 charity poker tournament ended in a dramatic contest between the final trio of players
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Government urged to abandon greenfield eco-towns
Sustainable communities development should be shifted towards extensions of existing conurbations
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NewsOne we made earlier
Modular contractor Spaceover has developed the UK’s first prefabricated two-storey family homes at its £10m Newhall development in Harlow, Essex.
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McBains Cooper goes global
Consultant McBains Cooper has launched a global division after opening two offices in South America.
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Problem contracts reduce Styles & Wood’s profit to nil
Ivan McKeever, chief executive of retail fit-out specialist Styles & Wood, has said the group will break even in 2008 as a result of margin shortfalls on projects completed last year.
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Pay plummets for Barratt bosses after difficult year
Barratt bosses have waived their performance bonuses in 2008 after a tough 12 months for the housebuilder.
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ODA may use Lehman offices
Journalists could end up using the former Canary Wharf offices of Lehman Brothers as a press centre during the 2012 Olympic Games, it is understood.
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BAA director to join Balfour Beatty as exodus continues
BAA capital projects director Andrew Wolstenholme is to join Balfour Beatty in February.
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NewsMarks’ capital
Architect Marks Barfield is designing 11 residential buildings in the Dubai Arts District
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NewsFit for a Sheikh
Atkins has unveiled its design for the Anara Tower in Dubai, which, at more than 600m, will rank among the world’s tallest structures
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Custard arts
Vinci subsidiary Weaver has started to restore the former head office of Alfred Bird’s custard empire in Birmingham.
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Fine for worker injury
TJ Myles & Co and Crispin & Borst have been fined a total of £44,000 after a worker was paralysed after falling on a construction site on Grosvenor Street, central London.
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Corrections
In our top 100 engineers section of the top 250 consultants tables (10 October, page 66) the figures for UK chartered staff for 2008 appeared in the 2007 column and vice versa.
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Here’s an idea no.14
A new school building made from pre-existing modular buildings has been completed in Brent, north London.
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NewsHSE crane decision attacked
Safety campaigners have expressed dismay at the HSE’s decision not to prosecute anyone in the wake of the Liverpool crane collapse that killed a worker last January.
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Union man who ran Crossrail bows out after 25 years
Frank Westerman, the union official who handled the major projects agreement on behalf of electricians at Heathrow Terminal 5, is to retire from the Unite union.