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NewsInquest launched into death of worker crushed by crane
26-year-old man was dead by the time ambulance crews arrived
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NewsSidell Gibson acquires Birmingham architect
Large commercial practice buys long-standing Edgbaston firm Crouch Butler Savage
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NewsGensler unveils China's tallest building at Mipim
Standing 632m tall, the architect's Shanghai Tower will dwarf the neighbouring Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center
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Comment
Window shoppers aplenty but buyers dwindle in the housing market
There has been a big surge in window shoppers, but no increase in sales. In fact they are a little worse. That is the nub of the latest housing market survey from the surveyors' body RICS.Much will be read into the surge in interest with suggestions that this represents the ...
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NewsCivil Procedure Rules: Dalkia Energy and Technical Services vs Bell Group
Fenwick Elliot discusses a row over terms of a station repair project
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NewsBovis Homes posts £78m loss after 60% job cuts
Housebuilder writes down £93m and lays off almost 600 workers during 2008
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NewsVideo: The house built of water
Eco's new ECO2H2OUSE uses tanks of water in ceiling voids to help achieve thermal mass and Passivhaus standards. Tim Fenn explains
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NewsSir Robert McAlpine 'paid £26,000' to blacklisting firm
Details emerge of contractor's payments to private detective accused of keeping blacklist
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NewsRail union warns of safety hazards from delayed works
Whistleblowers identify 200 locations and 1,000 jobs under threat from deferred maintenance work
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NewsZaha reaps boom as pre-tax profits increase 400%
Turnover doubles and pre-tax profits hit £5m in year to 30 April 2008
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NewsBuro Happold puts 1,000 UK staff on notice
Engineer starts 90-day consultation on a new round of cost cuts
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Arup to build 30km Hong Kong sea bridge
Consortium wins contract to construct a £7.5bn bridge across the sea to Macau and Chinese city of Zhuhai
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NewsMinister welcomes new green building code
Beckett positive about UK-GBC's proposed framework to improve sustainability of new and existing non-domestic buildings
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NewsUK among top six producers of green goods and services
New report shows UK accounts for 3.5% of global output in sustainability related sectors, with US top at 21%
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Video: Brian Mark on using waste heat to cut CO2
Fulcrum Consultant director explains how capturing waste heat will help cut carbon emissions in existing stock
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Comment
Are the leaders of the contracting industry fit for purpose?
My attention was drawn to a letter sent yesterday by the Construction Products Association's chairman Adrian Barden to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform regarding the current plight of the construction industry.It makes hard, clear, well researched and convincing points. It outlines the problems and makes ...
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NewsUnions vow to sue 'blacklist' construction firms
Unite says it will sue on behalf of workers who have appeared on the blacklist held by the Consulting Association
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NewsGreen for go: sustainability in the JCT contract
Keeping an eye on sustainability during the credit crunch shouldn't be too hard, with the help of the JCT's new guidance note
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NewsOver 40 construction firms used illegal blacklist
Firms including Balfour Beatty and Laing O'Rourke paid annual fee of £3,000 to obtain sensitive information on workers
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CommentJan and me: Amanda Levete on Jan Kaplicky
Jan Kaplicky, who died in January, was a visionary architect whose creativity drove him to test the bounds of the possible, says his former wife and design partner