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FeaturesL of a challenge
Industry has less than a month to respond to the ODPM’s radical proposals for Part L of the building regs. John Tebbit, industry affairs director at the CPA, picks out the highlights.
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Construction growth rate at five-month high.
Construction industry grew at fastest rate for five months according to survey by Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
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Sunday paper round
Round-up of all the weekend’s big construction stories including speculation over Amec’s future and the latest on Jarvis.
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Balfour Beatty wins £270m transport contracts in US
Civil engineering contract wins boost revenue from the States by 70%.
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Government grounds Gatwick housing scheme
Government feared future airport expansion would have been jeopardised if development by Laing and Persimmon had been given go-ahead.
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BDP appoints Peter Drummond as chief executive
Building Design Partnership elect its director of town planning as chief executive for next two years.
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Balfour Beatty 155,000 fined over rail death
Balfour Beatty and McGinley Recruitment Services are fined a total of £325,000 after pleading guilty to breaching safety rules.
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Grimshaw ducks blame in Bath Spa row
In latest in a spate of disasters, architect gets steamed up over who is responsible for waterproofing problems
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Laing O'Rourke staff to lose bonuses over Dubai tragedy
Five dead and 23 injured at Dubai airport site, forcing contractor to review staff rewards on safety performance
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Waterman posts £2m profit despite commercial lull
Work on large urban regeneration schemes helps Waterman offset lower demand in commercial sector.
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A costly cargo
By various contracts made during the period between April 2001 and July 2001 Log-o-Mar agreed to charter five vessels (one of which was the Mega S) to Croyndon/ Craft for voyages carrying steel from Black Sea ports to Umm Qasr in southern Iraq. Disputes arose in relation to these contracts, ...
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ActionForSkills
In our fourth article with the CITB, why poor business skills are letting the industry down and what can be done
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Regulations
In the third of our twice-monthly special features, we take a look at how imminent changes to Building Regulations and other standards will affect specifiers' decisions plus how this university's unique design managed to comply with fire rules
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Ask Edward
The right to employee status and the right to a pay rise are this week's points of legal confusion
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FeaturesTricky business
In the fourth of five monthly articles, Building, in association with ConstructionSkills, investigates why construction operates so inefficiently – and asks what can be done to improve performance.
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FeaturesB-Trac Services: A business success story
Paul Banner is managing director of B-Trac Services, a small maintenance company in the West Midlands working for housing associations. He explains how his firm achieved Investor in People status
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FeaturesIT workshops: How builders are updating their skills
Robin Hood-Leeder explains how the Federation of Master Builders is trying to help its members improve their performance by setting up IT workshops
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House prices fall for third month in a row
House prices have fallen for the third month running after the market failed to make its usual early autumn recovery