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  • St Barts Hospital
    News

    Employers' body rounds on NHS over PFI delays

    2006-04-21T09:42:00Z

    CBI report claims that procurement process wastes an average of £2.45m per major hospital scheme

  • News

    New CPA president takes on energy price crisis

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    John Colley sets out his stall on key issues for building product manufacturers ahead of government talks

  • Blair: Determined to protect firms
    News

    Blair sounds out firms over animal extremist threat

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Government to ask construction companies whether climate of intimidation makes them reluctant to tender

  • News

    EP chair shakes up senior management team

    2006-04-21T10:04:00Z

    Dennis Hone becomes chief operating officer ahead of John Callcutt's appointment as chief executive next month.

  • A textbook case: Delays led costs to escalate £28m at St Bart’s Hospital in London at the start of the year
    News

    Employers' body rounds on NHS over PFI delays

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    CBI report claims that procurement process wastes an average of £2.45m per major hospital scheme

  • Scene of the collapse: HSE investigators are on site
    News

    HSE on site for investigation into tragic scaffold collapse

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    The Health and Safety Executive is continuing its investigation into last week's fatal scaffolding collapse in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

  • News

    Training centre set for royal visit

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    The Duke of Edinburgh is to make a visit to a flagship construction training centre in Norfolk to demonstrate his support for practical skills training.

  • News

    Industry to plead for more advice on energy directive

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Sustainability experts to lobby the government for help on energy certification of non-domestic buildings

  • News

    Hammerson to push on with £180m Bishopsgate scheme

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Developer to put 100,000 m2 mixed-use City scheme in for planning, despite jitters in the speculative market

  • News

    Sustainability

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    This weeks energy-efficient, environmentally responsible Specifier takes in the latest green products, how much domestic wastewater treatments costs and what to remember when complying with on-site renewable energy rules. Speaking of which, Sonia Soltani reports on these giant wind-harnessing solutions

  • News

    Mtech Supplement April 2006

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

  • Darren Richards, Mtech Group
    Comment

    Off-site, on target

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Off-site technology isn't new, but the industry is only just waking up to its benefits - about time too

  • Hill Partnerships
    Features

    The evolution of OSC

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Off-site construction has come a long way since the 1960s - but particularly in the past 10 years, as these case studies demonstrate …

  • Atkins’ World Trade Centre development in Bahrain includes the world’s first large-scale integration of wind turbines into a building’s design
    Features

    Sustainability

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    This week's energy-efficient, environmentally responsible Specifier takes in the latest green products, how much domestic wastewater treatments costs and what to remember when complying with on-site renewable energy rules. Speaking of which, Sonia Soltani reports on these giant wind-harnessing solutions …

  • Cladding maker Sto has supplied its StoTherm Classic external wall insulation system to Butlins’ Shoreline hotel on the beachfront at Bognor Regis in West Sussex.
    Features

    Products

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    From a beachfront hotel in Bognor to the world-famous flower show in Chelsea, and from heat exchangers to render, we look at the latest sustainable products and the places they're being put to use

  • Features

    Checklist

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Along with a raft of other tough regulations, specifiers are now facing the demands of PPS22, which requires 10% on-site renewable energy.

  • Features

    Costs: Treatment of domestic wastewater

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Anthony Waterman of Sense Cost Consultancy considers the respective benefits of two recent innovations in the treatment of domestic wastewater in small and rural communities

  • What’s in your package?
    Features

    What's in your package?

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Perks, not pay, have become consultants' secret weapon in the battle to attract and retain staff. And gym memberships won't cut it any more. Bosses are giving away anything from bike loans to lifestyle management services as salary rises stagnate

  • Jennie Price
    Comment

    The world is watching

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    The Olympic building project faces such intense scrutiny that only by committing to the highest standards can the industry avoid a nasty fall at every hurdle

  • Robert Adam & Alain de Botton - Portrait by Bohdan Cap
    Features

    The fast and the furious

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Alain de Botton (right) discusses his new book on design with philosopher Robert Adam.