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CRH Europe appoints MD
Irish materials group promotes Mairtin Clarke to lead European products and distribution team
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Waterman Group profit up 13%
Environmental consultant posts positive set of result for the 12 months to 30 June
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NewsDCLG poised to appoint new head of Building Regs
Shona Dunn is set to succeed Anne Hemming in January, Mark Coulshed is made interim head
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Mace tipped to win £350m Shard
Mace is set to land the construction management role on the £350m Shard of Glass tower in London, which will be Europe’s tallest building when it is completed.
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NewsConservatives back radical reform of planning system
Tories call for streamlined appeals and the abolition of ‘use class’ orders to free up office space
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NewsDCLG poised to appoint new head of Building Regs
Shona Dunn is set to succeed Anne Hemming in January, Mark Coulshed is made interim head
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HSE clears second Battersea crane
The Health and Safety Executive has given the all-clear to a second crane on the Battersea site where two people were killed last week.
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Building intelligence Q2 2006: Slow start
Since the fall in output in 2005 – widely regarded as a blip – the industry has failed to bounce back at the speed predicted. But although public sector output declined in the first half of 2006, there has been an acceleration in the commercial sector
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Jarvis review sparks break-up rumours
Jarvis sparked rumours of a break-up last week when it announced that it had hired merchant bank Close Brothers to conduct a strategic review of the business.
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Hyder raises £7.8m war chest
Hyder Consulting has raised about £7.8m for acquisitions in Germany and Hong Kong by issuing new shares.
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McInerney Homes boosted by 80% increase in UK turnover
Irish developer McInerney Homes posted a positive set of interim results thanks to a strong performance by its UK operation.
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CommentPrefabrication in the sixties
Now and then — David Rogers on the government’s endless efforts to get the industry to embrace modern methods
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CommentIn a packed page
… this week we bring you airborne executives, amphibious journalists, frustrated ministers, belligerent philanthropists, disguised contractors and engineering gourmands …
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NewsHow can we build homes for all?
Home front — Without more available land and a faster planning process, the PGS will fail
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FeaturesWelcome to Pete Waterman’s ‘institute for the mentally insane’
The Pop Idol panellist, and man behind Kylie and Rick Astley, opens the doors to his ‘creative village’ – a 300,000ft² redevelopment of London’s County Hall
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CommentDont panic!
We all hope we’d cope in a crisis, but few of us plan for one. In the first of our security series Angus Darroch-Warren explains what to do when the nightmare scenario strikes …
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CommentA culture of risk
Denise Chevin’s leader about the economic impact of Eastern European workers on the UK construction industry (25 August, page 3) makes a lot of sense.
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College farce
The news that the National Construction College is facing closure (29 September, page 28) is the most ridiculous thing I’ve read in Building for years – we’re building the Olympic site on top of everything else and shutting down the facility we need to train people at the same time? ...