All Building articles in 2001 issue 50 – Page 2
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Planning shake-up receives cautious welcome
DTLR green paper outlines five key changes to planning, designed to cut out red tape and involve communities.
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Camway sues over lost contract
Essex-based civil engineer Camway Group is suing a former employee for more than £400,000, claiming that he set up a company to take away a contract from his employer.
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Camden launches regeneration plan
AN architectural initiative to improve down-at-heel streets and public spaces in London, such as Tottenham Court Road, was this week launched by Camden council.
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EC Harris buys two firms
Quantity Surveyor EC Harris has made two acquisitions and opened four offices in the Far East.
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Buildings must generate own energy, says report
Cabinet Office review places new Part L under threat by recommending revised energy targets for buildings.
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Prince Charles slams tall buildings
The Prince of Wales believes tall buildings should be built discreetly in groups – if they have to built at all.
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Brian Wilson
In an exclusive first interview, industry minister Brian Wilson talks to Building about the procurement lessons of Picketts Lock, making construction feel at home in the DTI – and his Beach Boy namesake.
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Tax body to quiz firms on bogus employment
A taxation body representing employers says it will canvass trade opinion on bogus self-employment before submitting fiscal proposals to the chancellor Gordon Brown.
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Plant more trees, says Bellamy
Television pundit and academic David Bellamy wants housebuilders to plant 16 trees every time they build a house.
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Birse back in profit despite fall in enquiries
Enquiries drop 50% due to economic uncertainty, but contractor remains confident after posting £1.2m profit.
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Sounding the fire alarm
Use a blowtorch next to a stack of polystyrene insulation blocks, polythene-wrapped to a wooden pallet, and sooner than you can cite the health and safety code, you've got a roomful of poison gas. Something like this happens 11 times a day on UK sites. Tom Lane asks what's going ...
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Clients hesitant after US attacks, says Mitie
Building and support services company Mitie has said some clients had cancelled projects and others were hesitating about going ahead after the terror attacks in the USA on 11 September.
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Government must do better, admits Wilson
Construction minister Brian Wilson this week promised to improve the government's track record over procurement, in order to avoid any more Picketts Lock-style disasters.
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Bovis shuns O'Rourke after acquisition of Laing
Bovis drops concrete firm from preferred subcontractors list after Laing buy-out makes O'Rourke a direct rival.
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Factory closed after fatal accident
cheltenham-based housebuilder Westbury has closed its prefabrication factory in Yardley, Birmingham, after the death of a 48-year-old employee.
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Sir Colin Buchanan dies, aged 94
engineer, architect and town planner Sir Colin Buchanan, the first person to grapple with traffic congestion in British cities, has died aged 94.
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