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Brazilian wins Pritzker
Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been awarded the 2006 Pritzker prize for his work in the city of São Paulo.
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HSE targets designers in drive to cut site accidents
The Health and Safety Executive is to look at how changes in the design process can reduce accidents on site.
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NewsHave we got mews for you …
HLM Architects residential development in Islington, north London, has recently been completed by the Aitch Group.
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Little Britain to support Paralympic sailing team
Britain's Paralympic sailing team is set to benefit from this autumn's Little Britain Challenge Cup, the annual construction industry sailing contest.
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London tower architect named
The architect of developer Great Portland Estates' 12-storey office building on London's South Bank has been revealed as Allford Hall Monaghan Morris.
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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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NewsHe'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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NewsLemley 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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CommentThe 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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NewsCBI 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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NewsOlympic 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.