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Agency urges firms to reduce hazardous waste
Environment Agency calls on small businesses to join waste reduction scheme.
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Faber Maunsell team to advise on Mars station
NASA brings in extreme-environment experts to design research base.
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CommentKeeping the law in order
The DTI is to draft a bill to amend the construction act. This is a heroic enterprise, but don't forget it's the courts that really decide what the rules mean
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News"It's alright, I'm only four storeys up without a ladder..."
Another selection of cringe-worthy health and safety blunders from home and abroad.
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FeaturesHow green is your house (and the rest of your life)?
In a world becoming increasingly eco-conscious, Building decided to sign up three key industry figures with gas-guzzling lifestyles to be whipped into shape by our eco-guru. Katie Puckett discovered just how big their carbon footprints are, and how they plan to cut tonnes from their CO2 emission totals in 100 ...
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Was it worth it?
A claimant who rejects a defendant's settlement offer had better be sure it can win a bigger sum at trial, otherwise the legal costs could make it all pointless
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CommentTaking power
With the search for a more secure energy supply pointing to a nuclear revival, the building industry must be ready to exploit opportunities when they come
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CommentSixty-six and rising
The Turner Report proposes a national pensions scheme and an increase in the state pension age. Brian Griffiths suggests some points the government might like to consider
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CommentWonders & blunders
Toyshop owner Peter Baldwin, better known as Derek from Corrie, enjoys a night at the Prague opera. What would Mavis say?
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FeaturesCost model: Swimming pools
Britain's swimmers haven't had much success recently - so if we want a gold rush in 2012, we must start building competition pools now. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the key design and economic issues and breaks down the costs of a 50 m pool with dry sports ...
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FeaturesJust the job: from fashion to facades
Kate Cresswell tells Emily Wright why she was happy to leave high fashion to go into construction
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Bellway and Bovis disappoint customers
Bellway and Bovis are the worst housebuilders for customer satisfaction, according to a Home Builders Federation study that shows nearly all house purchasers report defects in their properties.
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FeaturesThe old friends
The old friends giggle as the photographer asks them to move ever closer. The RIBA HQ in central London is playing host to two of the foremost signature architects of the past 30 years, and they respond by embracing and mocking each other as they ham it up for the ...
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FeaturesCosta del Cockney
A sparkling white apartment scheme, straight out of a Mediterranean resort, has just been built in the heart of London's East End
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FeaturesLet the fun and games begin
Last week, ODA chairman Jack Lemley finally fired the starting gun for the London 2012 construction programme by releasing the tenders for key contracts. George Hay spoke to him about why the ODA held back for so long, the reasons why he needs to review all the Olympic projects and ...
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FeaturesFour hail murrays
Murray Grove in Hackney, north London, pioneered the use of prefabricated modules in multistorey flats Credit: Raf Makda/VIEW The Murray Grove block was assembled out of prefabricated modules that had been fully fitted out in the factory