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Consultants abandon ‘unreliable' Part L software
Architects and engineers switch to costly long-hand methods after giving up on BRE's compliance program
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Max Fordham defends first zero-carbon scheme
Environmental consultant Max Fordham has hit back after reports in the press that it criticised the performance of the first ever commercial zero-carbon development.
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Hollandia cuts secret Wembley deal
Wembley steelwork contractor Hollandia is understood to have made a secret agreement with Multiplex that it will complete its main work on the project by the end of the month, write the Building newsdesk.
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He's back …
Wakefield council has backed this design by SMC Alsop for The Orangery, a grade II*-listed building in Wakefield.
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Amec snaps up French nuclear engineering firm
Amec, the project management and services company, has bought French nuclear engineering company ATM Enterprise for *20.5m (£14.2m).
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Russia offers rebuild boom
Top UK firms have been approached to undertake billions of pounds of rebuilding work in Russia.
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Lemley to hire crack team to troubleshoot Olympic projects
Olympics to get standing dispute resolution board and to run schemes using NEC partnering contract
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Metronet plans Canary Wharf-Aldgate Tube link
Tube operator Metronet is to enter talks with London Underground over plans to provide a Tube link between Aldgate station on the Circle and Metropolitan lines and Canary Wharf station on the Jubilee Line.
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Employment tribunal to probe M&E blacklists
An employment tribunal on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project has been asked to consider allegations of blacklisting in the electrical sector.
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The rules of the Games
Back in February, Jack Lemley, the new chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority, waltzed into a room full of lawyers after two months in the job and set out his stall: disputes on Olympic construction projects will be dealt with during the construction process and not after it.
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CBI to set up PFI lobby group for members
The CBI is setting up a PFI lobby group, to be headed by John Pilkington of support services group Amey
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Goldman Sachs consortium set to join fight for BAA
BAA is likely to become the subject of a bidding war after it emerged that an investment bank could trump Spanish construction group Ferrovial's £8.75bn offer for the company.
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Record profit at Severfield
Steel fabricator Severfield-Rowen has reported a 60% leap in profit for the year to 31 December 2005, in record results for the company.
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Jarvis appoints John O'Kane finance director
Jarvis, the infrastructure support services group, has appointed John O'Kane finance director.
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Olympic Delivery Authority appoints 12-person board
Panel includes Lorraine Baldry, chair of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation, and Neale Coleman, policy director to the mayor of London.
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University gains fresh injunction against protesters
Oxford University wins High Court order to further llimit protest against construction of its animal testing laboratory.
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Treasury gives go-ahead for £559m QE hospital
Agonising wait over for Queen Elizabeth Hospital as Treasury gives PFI scheme the green light.
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Atkins boosted by Olympic work
Consultant says that contract wins in design group will help push 2006 profit towards the upper end of expectations.
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Balfour Beatty wins £400m power engineering deals
Largest contract, at £40m, for the construction giant is for the development of overhead transmission infrastructure in Queensland, Australia.
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Three workers seriously injured in scaffolding collapse
Contractor McAleer & Rushe issues statement following accident on Milton Keynes building site.