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NewsHighlights for cool customers
This month, Specifier reveals the latest chilled products fresh off the conveyor belts, including air-conditioning for preserving Oldham's finest works of art, and some superlight ductwork. Plus all the hottest lighting accessories, from colour rendering lamps to illuminated exit signs
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Potters Bar: Police examine new sabotage lead
British Transport Police investigate arrest of two men on Potters Bar line nine days before crash.
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NewsFranklin + Andrews merger is 'wake-up call' to consultants
QS's merger with engineer Mott MacDonald will push rivals to follow suit, says Franklin + Andrews chairman.
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FeaturesSolving the housing crisis
The time-bomb that ticked away behind the mundane statistics of new starts and planning permissions has exploded: the South-east’s housing crisis is now at the top of the political, and news, agenda. So Marcus Fairs asked 10 experts how we can tackle it.
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FeaturesAn inspector calls
Wherever there's an on-site safety breach, Mike Cosman is detective, prosecutor and grand inquisitor rolled into one. Marcus Fairs talks to the new head of operations within the Health and Safety Executive's construction division.
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NewsHome chic home
A greenfield landowner is trying to ditch the carriage lamps and half-timbering and bring a contemporary look to the suburbs. But loft-style homes? With raw finishes? And gabion walls? In Harlow? Whatever will the locals think …
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Decent proposals
The Law Commission is proposing to simplify the rules on limitation periods. Given the present confusion, the changes cannot come soon enough
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NewsJarvis shares halve after rail crash
shares in Jarvis, the maintenance contractor at the centre of the inquiry into the Potters Bar rail crash, collapsed to 282p by Wednesday afternoon, after trading for more than 500p the previous Friday.
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Good times return for McAlpine
Sir Robert McAlpine's contracting division returned to profitability last year after posting losses in 2000 and 1999.
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Guilty as charged
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators wants to levy its members so it can afford to put them on trial. Surely there's a better way of dealing with incompetence?
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MoD pulls plug on designs for £12m Navy HQ
Architect Pick Everard will not lose contract, but second firm will be hired to 'beef up' much-criticised plans.
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NewsBuilding triumphs at magazine 'Oscars'
Building HAS BEEN named business magazine of the year for the second time in three years.
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NewsHeadlam resigns despite confidence vote
MDA chief executive Elaine Headlam has resigned, despite receiving a vote of confidence from the quantity surveyor's shareholders in January.
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NewsBodies consider ways to aid use of immigrant labour
CITB and Construction Confederation to look at introduction of international skills driving licence for UK sites.
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Housing Forum: Build new towns
Housing Forum chief executive David Crewe has urged the government to start building new towns again as a way of solving the housing crisis.
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EDAW wins £300,000 Manchester masterplan
Architect beats off rivals for north Manchester project as other local regeneration schemes are given boosts.
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Boost women on site fivefold, says Wilson
Construction minister Brian Wilson has urged the industry to increase the number of women working on site from one in 100 to five in 100 over the next three years.
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The industry’s Beckenbauer
Mott MacDonald’s merger with Franklin + Andrews, exclusively revealed in Building last week, reopens the debate about the future of QSs. Martin Bishop, Franklin + Andrews’ chairman, thinks copycat mergers are likely, as is another round of soul searching for QSs (page 20). Bishop saw no future in independence, and ...
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Laing boss works part time for McAlpine
Andy White, Laing Construction's recently appointed chief operating officer, is still working part time for his former company, Alfred McAlpine.
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Opinion
The drop in Jarvis' share price is yet another example of the rough ride Britain's railway contractors are being given. Let's get thing straight: of course they want safe railways, not least because safe railways are good business – the consequences of accidents are terrible and the penalties are severe. ...