All Building articles in 30 January 2009
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Victorian product news: The Austrian boot scraper
The quality of The Builder's 1858 drawings often saved journalists the bother of a full article 'Further descriptive verbiage would be superfluous.' Quite
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Landmark apprenticeships bill published
Document proposes statutory entitlement to apprenticeships for all qualified young people
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Man crushed to death on site in Scotland
Labourer on site of Lidl store was airlifted to hospital after accident
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Bovis wins £4m case against London Clinic trustees
Adjudication in dispute over £11m redevelopment settled in construction firm's favour
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Strike deal accepted by oil refinery workers
British workers set to be awarded 102 jobs on Lincolnshire oil refinery site
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Union workers protest at Alstom offices
Unemployed labourers gather in central London to demand a halt to practices 'excluding British workers'
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Balfour Beatty wins £3m Edinburgh scheme
Firm will supplying mechanical and electrical services to seven-storey Quartermile Two office building
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Gladedale vs Paul Rogers: Failure to pay
Norfolk entrepreneur Paul Rogers has launched a £1m legal battle against the UK's largest independent housebuilder. Rogers, who sold his business Premier Homes to Gladedale Group for almost £50m in May 2006, accuses Gladedale of failing to pay in full for the transaction. Gladedale builts about 5,000 new homes a ...
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Olympic stadium bill rockets £22m in six months
Government set to admit cost of £527m, due to lack of bidding competition
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Shock rise in house prices in January
Experts warn public not too place too much weight on the surprise figures
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Interest rates cut to 1%
Bank of England slashes base rate to lowest ever level, but economists warn further measures are necessary
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Building Awards 2009 shortlist announced
The annual competition to win the construction industry's most prestigious and hotly-contested awards is on
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Titan jails could start on site next year
Justice minister says construction work may start in 2010 on the first of three massive new prisons
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GDF Suez and Iberdrola bid jointly for UK nuclear work
French and Spanish firms join forces to compete against German RWE/E.ON joint venture and EDF
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Phase One heads for Bristol's Cabot Circus
Come for advice and a little light refreshment at Building's next networking event for new construction industry professionals
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Site death co-workers had not read instruction manual
Inquest reveals scissor-grab machine that killed construction worker was being used inappropriately
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TfL puts work on 44 rail stations out to tender
Closing date is next week for tender to rebuild or refurbish dozens of aging overground stations
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Interserve picked for £600m Scottish health framework
Building services group named as one of five principal supply chain partners for new healthcare construction programme
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Bellway reports 50% slump in profit margin and forward orders
Housebuilder's six-month update warns of further writedown and reveals 1,000 homes are sitting unsold