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Sustainable TV: The newspaper house
See the unveiling of artist Sumer Erek's art installation, which was revealed to the public in Dalston, north east London, earlier this month
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Deeper and down for US house prices
As we consider, or for that matter dismiss the possibility of a house price crash in the UK it is perhaps worth taking a look at the shape of things in the US.The most respected figures for house prices come from the S&P/Case Shiller index and this shows prices down ...
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NewsCR Management announces two new appointments
Firm hires new senior consultant and delay analyst and planner
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NewsArup's Cambridge University site gets green light
£9.5m Institute for Manufacturing building first at the university to have biomass boiler
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NewsThink confirms leading green figurehead speakers
Herbert Girardet and Ché Wall amongst keynote speakers at the Think 2008 conference
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NewsHowe Dell school, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire Council commissioned the project to test the latest eco-friendly system with its most intriguing feature being the temperature control
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NewsElm Park, Dublin
Bucholz McEvoy Architects’ Elm Park is a stunning £300m mixed-use, sustainable extension to Dublin, made all the more attractive by the charmless dross that surrounds it
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NewsDangerous digger stunts found on YouTube
HSE warns about effects of dangerous clips after death defying digger stunt workman draws over 1,200 hits
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CommentThe stranglers
One hand is called administrative efficiency. The other is called funding projections. Together they are throttling the life out of education in the creative arts. We have to fight back while we still can.
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South Coast contractor Dean & Dyball is put up for sale
Balfour Beatty and Galliford Try could lead bidding for £262m turnover regional contractor
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NewsStudent hall by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang
This pavilion, designed by graduate students Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang, has been erected at the Architectural Association in central London
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Directors join Erinaceous exodus
Two senior members of staff leave troubled consultant to join EC Harris
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Consultant Wakemans promotes three to its board of directors
Also: development firm Targetfellow announces joint managing directors
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Skanska makes pensions compulsory for supply chain
Construction union Ucatt claimed a historic victory this week after Skanska became the first contractor to require its suppliers to offer their staff pensions.
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NewsTaywood boss bags £2m for seven months’ work
Bumper payouts for senior executives coincides with housebuilder’s plunge into the red
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NewsCrest slows construction of flagship Birmingham project
Chief executive admits sales rate has halved at £261m Park Central since credit crunch began
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FeaturesServer farms: Where the internet lives
They may look like simple sheds but server farms are the nerve centres of the digital age. And considering they can cost up to £1,000/ft2, building them is big business for M&E contractors. Report includes sustainability discussion
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Comment
An unfair adjudication: Humes Building Contractors Ltd vs Charlotte Homes (Surrey) Ltd
Humes Building Contractors Ltd sought to enforce by way of summary judgment an adjudicator’s decision for £158,486.26 plus VAT. The building contract was based upon a JCT Intermediate Form of Building Contract with Contractors Design 2005 Edition. Relations between the parties deteriorated and the defendant purported to terminate the contract ...
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NewsScotland opens £90m biomass power station
Steven's Croft in Lockerbie could more than doubles Scotland's biomass electricity
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NewsImages: Wilkinson Eyre's Dyson school in Bath
Council grants planning for Dyson design school despite complaints from heritage groups and the Environment Agency