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NewsBalfour Beatty buys Dean & Dyball for £45m
Group bags another contractor as it looks to strengthen civil engineering presence in southern England
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NewsFirst new build EPC produced
Elmhurst Energy claims bragging rights for certificate for Leicestershire David Wilson home
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Features'You can’t have sex if you’re bored' – the sex in architecture debate
Will Alsop, Jonathan Meades, David Ubaka and Ben Addy debate the merits of eroticism in architecture - is there too much, too little and what exactly does sex have to do with buildings?
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NewsNew York crane collapse prompts safety review
Site inspection and procedural review to follow crane collapse that killed six
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NewsMetronet in row over £144k wage for labourers
Reports suggest consortium pays some labourers £79 an hour on tube upgrade
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NewsPlans unveiled to restore Mumbles Pier
Swansea Bay pier, rebuilt in 1956, will recieve £4m as part of regeneration package to make it a tourist destination once more
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NewsCrane collapses prompt school site fears
Safety fears for children at Pimlico school in wake of recent spate of UK crane accidents
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Nuclear plant designs gain initial approval
Regulators give go-ahead for four power station designs to proceed to next assessment stage
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Debts of £36m drive Meadgate Western into administration
Early asset sale safeguards development sites as administrator says housing slowdown gave final push to struggling developer
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Appeal court upholds £260k fine for site death
FJ Chalcroft (Construction) ruled at fault after unsecured rail let worker fall to his death
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JCB group hit by £450k fines after site deaths
Two companies in the group found to have breached safety laws after separate site accidents
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Housing policy facing the crunch
For those not convinced that the credit crunch has spilled over into the “real economy”, a quiet chat with an estate agent or house builder may be worth the effort.The news that two more bidders have joined Barratt in walking away from English Partnerships' flagship carbon challenge project at ...
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NewsChelsfield hires OMA as architect for Commonwealth Institute
Rem Koolhaas's practice chosen for radical restoration of grade II building in Kensington
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NewsGifford boss moves to sustainable software firm
Richard Quincey joins Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) as technical director.
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Leaky promises over EPCs
Back in 2002, the Government promised it would be able to implement every last scrap of European energy performance building legistlation on time. What happened next? Not an awful lot, says Andrew Warren of the Association for the Conservation of Energy, apart from a lot of CO2 emitting.
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NewsFort Dunlop
An old tyre factory lives again, with a trendy makeover that’s drawn the creative industries to the outskirts of Birmingham
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NewsEco-experts to advise Whitehall civil servants
The government is setting up a Centre of Expertise for Sustainable Procurement to push departments to go greener