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Innovative Technology Award
WinnerBovis Lend Lease Contractor Bovis Lend Lease is not content with driving up standards of waste minimisation and site efficiency. It has pressed ahead with creating a really smart way of recycling a commonly used site material – plywood.The category’s winning concept Re-Plas – short for Recycled Plastic Board - ...
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Sustainable Consultant of the Year
WinnerBioRegional Consulting Probably best known for the BedZED eco village in Sutton, south London, BioRegional Consulting stood out for the diversity of its work. As well as its groundbreaking efforts in eco housing it has also been involved in sustainable forestry, sustainable farming and recycling. It uses the One Planet ...
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Sustainable Contractor/Construction Manager of the Year
WinnerSkanska This Swedish contractor takes a very methodical and complete approach to sustainability, underpinned by a host of tools, training and monitoring strategies that ensure it is as green as possible. What is so commendable is having hit its targets it simply ups the ante and sets an even tougher ...
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Building 99% Campaign Award for Refurbishment
WinnerParity Projects This Carshalton Grove Eco-Renovation development could have been considered as near impossible to develop sustainably. An inefficient three-bedroom semi-detached Victorian house built in 1890 there is also no south facing roofs to easily utilise solar power and the interior had no cavity walls to easily insulate. A challenge ...
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Best Sustainability Initiative for the Public Sector
WinnerAspire Defence Capital Works - Project Allenby/Connaught, Aldershot and Salisbury WinnerAspire Defence Capital Works has successfully shown how to embed sustainability into a major programme of works, covering everything from quality of build through to community involvement and innovative recycling. The team behind the scheme are delivering an £8bn green ...
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Sustainable Building of the Year - Largest Project
WinnerFeilden Clegg Bradley – Heelis BuildingHeelis, the National Trust central office in Swindon, is an exemplar in two vital areas. One is that it demonstrates that buildings with normal commercial constraints can be made significantly greener for little extra cost. The second vital area is the commitment from both the ...
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NewsGovernment to spend £1bn on apprenticeships
The government's new skills investment programmes targets 400,000 quality placements by 2011
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FeaturesWind power costs breakdown
Peter May runs through the basics of wind power and assesses the costs, life cycle and annual outputs of differently sized turbines
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CommentWorth their weight in what?
There is a consensus now that the quality of adjudication is fine, but the same cannot be said about the cost of hiring an adjudicator. Just ask the clients that got a bill from one chap for £30,000
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Tell us all your secrets
Did you know that the Freedom of Information Act could apply to your PFI contracts, and that all the obvious reasons why it might be a bad idea to disclose such information may be without force?
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CommentPut paid to those with no scruples
10 things you need to know about … abuses of the Construction Act
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Multiplex Constructions vs PC Harrington
Multiplex is facing a legal battle with contractor PC Harrington over a £45m concrete works contract
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NewsBDP profit slumps as staff costs soar £5m
UK’s biggest architect operates at £20,000 loss despite turnover rise and buoyant market
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Departure of Erinaceous founders delayed by ‘large pay-off’
Neil Bellis and Lucy Cummings, the founders of beleaguered property services company Erinaceous, are demanding “large pay-offs”, and this is delaying their departure, according to sources close to the firm.
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NewsISG snaps up Pearce and plans Asian shopping spree
Contractor boosts turnover to £1bn as it buys Bristol outfit Pearce for £22m
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Willmott Dixon poaches Balfour man
Willmott Dixon has poached Martin Adie, a Balfour Beatty project director, to head its operations in the south Midlands.
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NewsTreasury backs decision to reject off-site renewables
Energy provided through the national grid will not count towards zero carbon homes rating
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NewsRidge wins contract to relocate Devon eco-school
Consultant appointed QS and CDM co-ordinator for the £5.5m scheme to relocate Dartington Primary School
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NewsCredit crunch could threaten new builds
Industry likely to remain busy next year but new developments could suffer from credit crunch and rising material cost, says report
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NewsQueen congratulates F+G for work on new Eurostar
Associate director congratulated at the King's Cross St. Pancras Station opening ceremony