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Projects update: Sustainability
Environment-friendly projects are big business these days, and many companies and organisations are jumping on the bandwagon. Here is the latest set of initiatives, products and services to make your scheme green
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Kajima to wind down UK construction business
Japanese contractor plans to turn to PFI investment after reporting £80m losses on PFI schools contracts
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Comment
Road rage
Business Environment Group was the leasehold owner of a large office block known as 1 Olympic Way, Wembley. The building was let as government offices and also as fully serviced offices, to which there is access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. BEG retained occupation of the common ...
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Government backs MP's plan to tackle climate change
Councils may cut red tape for community electricity generation schemes
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Stadium chief fears winter delay at Wembley
Michael Cunnah says that a harsh winter could delay the installation of the pitch and foundations.
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Cowboys guilty of £150,000 scam
Cowboy builders from Redcar have admitted they conned elderly people out of £150,000.
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NewsTravis Perkins predicts £20m profit fall
Building merchant chief says people are "not in the mood for DIY" as firm warns of tough 2006.
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Broadway Malyan to design scheme for Fourth Grace site
£80m mixed-use project to replace Alsop’s ‘Cloud’ in time for Liverpool’s reign as European City of Culture.
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Extra M&E firms drafted in to Wembley
MJ Quinn and Daltech are brought on site to speed up M&E work at National Stadium.
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CommentLiberty Hall
The urban taskforce is filled with brownfield Taliban, but one member knows we don’t need to live in city-centre boxes. So why doesn’t Sir Peter Hall tells the others?
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Extra M&E firms drafted in to Wembley
Two more M&E firms have been brought on to the Wembley site in an attempt to get the stadium completed in time for next year’s FA Cup final, writes Sarah Richardson.
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NewsCarillion eyes Mowlem as the sell-off begins
Former subsidiary Daubney buys part of division for £1m, as two key directors go on gardening leave
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Skanska set to win first BSF contract
A Skanska-led consortium has been named preferred bidder for the government’s first Building Schools for the Future contract.
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NewsBlair and Prescott lead tributes to George Brumwell
Former general secretary of UCATT and chair of the CSCS card scheme dies suddenly in hospital aged 66
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Lawyers warn that contracts may not protect firms during cold spell
Lawyers have warned that construction companies could face legal and financial problems if Met Office predictions of a harsh winter come true.
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Broadway Malyan to design scheme for Fourth Grace site
£80m mixed-use project to replace Alsop’s ‘Cloud’ in time for Liverpool’s reign as European City of Culture
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CommentDrop the dead duck
A collapsed roof at a superstore started a chain of events that demonstrates the foolishness of risking indemnity costs when a claim looks certain to fail
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Comment
On the record
A High Court decision to allow the media access to pleadings in Multiplex vs Cleveland Bridge before the case went to trial has implications for all court users
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Comment
After the endgame
In the leader column in today’s issue of Building (28 October) you say: “Without a doubt energy is the most important problem we face as an industry and a society.” None of your readers, unless they had some kind of axe to grind, could disagree with the points you make. ...