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CommentThe best laid plans
Rival engineers accidentally lay on parties at the same location, Frank Lampard fails to organise a trip to the zoo and Building hacks somehow conspire to win an intelligence test...
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CommentCausing death and saving lives
The bill on manslaughter and corporate homicide that is midway through its second reading in parliament must ensure that senior managers can be held personally to account
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CommentThe times they have a-changed
Tony Bingham It used to be seen as bad form to adjudicate negligence claims against professional gentlemen. On the other hand, that does seem to be what parliament intended...
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Men behaving badly
A survey by the Chartered Institute of Building reveals that many in construction have a shockingly complacent attitude to corruption – and don’t even realise that certain practices are criminal
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CommentIt’s going to be a long, long time
STATE YOUR CASE — The latest idea for disposing of nuclear waste is to offer councils financial incentives to bury it in their backyard. But, says Nigel Robson, the progress is measured in decades
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CommentRead the signs
Thanks for the interesting article about waste management (27 October, page 46).
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Silent voices
Regarding your news article on Polish workers (27 October, page 14), I seem to come across many articles concerning the welfare of Eastern European labourers and what they should and shouldn’t have or do.
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Rogers and the Olympic icon
Isn’t the pessimistic tone of Building’s review of progress on the Olympic stadium a little premature (27 October, page 26)?
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Man from the JCT
Jeff Brown’s article on JCT 2005 and third-party rights (27 October, page 54) refers to a glaring omission.
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NewsWhat do you think of it so far?
MAKING THE NEWS — Gleeson’s interim chief executive waits to hear if he’s got the nod
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WWF urges five year target for zero carbon homes
Green pressure group calls for government to make zero carbon condition of public funding
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NewsAn arrival in Dresden
Dresden station reopened this week after a £94m refurbishment designed by Foster and Partners and Buro Happold.
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NewsWaiting to get better
It’s been pumped full of cash, had its hospitals replaced, its contractors reorganised and its clinics transplanted, and it’s still £1bn in debt and most of its procurement methods don’t work terribly well. Mark Leftly reports on what’s gone wrong with the government’s health policy
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FeaturesBeer, cannabis, glue and a generous helping of lime
No, not a recipe for a quiet night in, but rather the ingredients of Adnams’ deep green distribution centre. Thomas Lane went to Suffolk to meet a brewer with a difference
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NewsWhat we’ve got cooking
SME FOCUS — Fit-out specialist IDM is thriving by targeting upmarket clients such as Jamie Oliver
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FeaturesStarting out
For managers on site, taking responsibility for health and safety can be a matter of life and death. And for graduates in their early twenties, that responsibility can weigh very heavily indeed.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Eric Parry hails one bucolic estate in the Square Mile, and rails against many, many others, all over the country