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  • Prater added a unique touch to the Robin Hood airport with its undulating roof
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    Roofing specialist of the year

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    With a whopping 90% of its work repeat business, Prater has almost as many fans as Arsenal, whose glamorous Emirates stadium it is working on.

  • Smoke Control Services won a £700,000 contract to install a system that extracts smoke in this newly refurbished shopping centre
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    M&E specialist of the year

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    WinnerSmoke Control ServicesThe smoke ventilation expert is a minnow compared with the other companies on the shortlist, but it has to be one of the best bosses in south Wales. Each of its 18 employees gets a personal development plan, job-specific and customer services training. On top of that, engineers ...

  • One of IDM’s high quality, fast track fit-outs
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    Decoration specialist of the year

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    It sounds like Mission Impossible: roll out 150 driving test centres in locations from Stornoway to Penzance in 16 weeks.

  • A Twintec pile supported foundation slab built with steel fibre reinforced concrete
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    Flooring specialist of the year

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    WinnerTwintecA runner-up last year, Twintec has clinched the gold medal this time thanks to an 83% leap in turnover to £18m and its status as a world leader in the production of steel-fibre-reinforced concrete floor slabs. It is not resting on its laurels, though, but investing £45,000 in research to ...

  • Yorkon’s off-site manufacturing facility
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    Off-site specialist of the year

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    When Moho, Urban Splash’s swanky Manchester housing development, was unveiled earlier this year, it proved that volumetric housing developments could be, well, swanky.

  • Hotchkiss’ Ben Harvey receiving the HVCA Apprentice Ductwork Installer of the Year award for 2005
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    Training award

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    The fact that Eastbourne-based ductwork contractor Hotchkiss has archives that record taking “Frederick George Scarlett as an apprentice for a term of four years from the 20th day of January 1911 to the 20th day of January 1915” gives an indication of its longstanding commitment to training.

  • Mivan’s expertise in pre-fabrication helped it achieve the complex geometries inside the Scottish parliament’s debating chamber
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    Design integration award

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

  • Coleman’s aggregate produced from excavated spoil
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    Innovation of the year

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Coleman’s second category win of the evening was gained by a simple idea: washing the spoil dug up by its excavation business and recycling it.

  • Keith Blanshard
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    Personality of the year

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Anyone who has met or talked with Keith Blanshard, aka The Modular Man, is likely to have detected his passion for off-site construction.

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    A ‘true friend’ to all sides of the industry

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    The sad news that George Brumwell had died suddenly this week prompted the same response in everyone – shock and sadness, of course, and an overwhelming expression of what a genuine and likeable man he was.

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    Emcor loses £5m battle over Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Electrical specialist Emcor Drake & Scull has lost a £5m legal claim against Balfour Beatty over work carried out on the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

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    Brighton rocks

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    This £265m masterplan by Wilkinson Eyre for Brighton Marina is to go before planning officials at Brighton and Hove council today.

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    Industry still falling short over safety, says HSE

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Construction is still failing to meet targets for cutting fatalities and injuries, despite a drop in accident figures, HSE statistics revealed this week.

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    CABE backs Royal Arsenal

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    CABE has backed Allies and Morrison’s masterplan for the controversial Royal Arsenal scheme in Woolwich, south-east London.

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    Sheppard Robson takes over at Broadcasting House

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Architect Sheppard Robson has been appointed to complete phase two of the BBC’s Broadcasting House redevelopment.

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    Arad goes red

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Architect Ron Arad Associates has won planning permission for the National Design Museum in Israel.

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    The Pointe sisters

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Consultant Atkins has unveiled this image of the £200m Bay Pointe development in Cardiff Bay for client Allied Developments Europe.

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    NFB launches new body

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    The National Federation of Builders has launched a subsidiary aimed at small and medium-sized housebuilders.

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    Glasgow’s ideal regeneration scheme to be completed

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    A housing association is launching a scheme to complete Glasgow’s showpiece Crown Street urban regeneration scheme.

  • On the mend: Houses are selling in Liverpool
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    Liverpool’s housing recovery ‘fuelled by speculation’

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Housing market renewal pathfinder produces analysis of property sales that casts doubt on how healthy market is