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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.
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NewsCurve with verve
Planning consent has been received for Virage, a £18m commercial development in Maidenhead by CSD Architects.
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Tender prices may drop 10% in 2009
Building tender prices could fall 10% in 2009, according to the latest economic forecast from EC Harris.
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NewsSquare deal
Westminster council has approved plans to build a 2,100m2 hotel and cinema complex on the south-west corner of Leicester Square.
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NewsPower tower lowered
Keltbray has successfully completed dismantling and removing concrete pack support structures from the Willington A cooling tower in Derbyshire, built in the fifties.
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Dearth of green projects may cause assessor shortage
RICS warns industry may lose thousands of green home inspectors with developments for training being scrapped
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NewsUnions criticise HSE’s influence over inquiry into its work
Unions, safety campaigners and MPs have questioned the involvement of the Health and Safety Executive in a government inquiry into the body’s work.
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NewsCapita Symonds launches graduate skills programme
BusinessWise is a joint venture with Urban Vision and the University of Salford
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NewsDavis Langdon picks up numerous building awards
Winners include National Tennis Centre in Roehampton and Blue Fin Building