All Building articles in 2006 issue 41 – Page 2
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NewsWarning on airport cutbacks after BAA takeover
The Institution of Civil Engineers has called on the government to ensure airport investment continues after Ferrovial takeover
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NewsIt's amazing what you can do with a JCB
Why limit yourself to a scaffolding or a ladder when you can impress car drivers and pedestrians by blocking the road with a great big JCB?
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NewsAnimal rights extremists threaten 2012 Olympic site
Animal rights campaign group Speak targets Mace, a member of the Olympic delivery team, after claims it built the Oxford animal research lab
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Public sector boosts Mouchel Parkman profit 29%
Profit rose to £26m after consultant spent year focusing on work with government, local authorities and regulated industry
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NewsBellway uses incentives to keep profit growing
Housebuilder increases profit 3% to £220m but says that most sales required incentives
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NewsPart L compliance software rereleased following criticism
The new version of SBEN features easier data entry, simpler ventilation figures and a more accurate database
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NewsDemolition boss found guilty following site death
Bernard O'Sullivan is found guity of failing to ensure that risks to workers were adequately controlled
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NewsBNG Sellafield fined £500,000 for spillage of spent nuclear fuel
Court fines British Nuclear Group Sellafield today after it pleads guilty to health and safety breaches that caused a leak of radioactive liquid in 2005
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NewsRoger's to rename practice after scooping Stirling prize
Two rising star architects are set to have their names added to the prize-winning practice in recognition of their work on the Madrid airport
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NewsWhy beanie hats spell danger
Two more examples of site workers' rather cavalier attitude to working at height
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RICS prepares to overhaul self-regulation
Members of the RICS will vote tomorrow to overhaul 'old-style' self-regulation in the hope of addressing complaints and restoring confidence
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NewsPaper round: BAA looks to sell property fund
A round-up of the weekend news featuring BAA, Chelsfield, Wembley, Ferrovial and a possible Olympic stadium design
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NewsUmbrella body to champion green buildings
Willmott Dixon, Stanhope and Bennetts Associates are among the founding members of the UK Green Building Council, which met last week
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Construction firms in Sunday Times top 250
Countryside Properties is the highest ranking construction company in the top 250 mid-market private firms, followed by Lagan Group and Farview New Homes
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Irish consultant wins Dublin Docklands contract
Healy Kelly Turner & Townsend scoops safety and access review
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Shortlist for £5bn M25 project
Three groups have been shortlisted by the Highways Agency to widen 63 miles of the M25
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NewsCompulsive viewing
Al Gore's hit film An Inconvenient Truth has struck a chord in the industry, but how much will it change as a result? The inconveniently true answer is probably not a great deal
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Elmondstone Construction expects turnover to exceed £36m
Wolverhamtpon contractor reports growth on the back of two lucrative contracts
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Aukett Fitzroy Robinson wins contracts worth over £200m
Architect Aukett Fitzroy Robinson today said it had secured international contracts worth more than £200m.In Moscow it has been appointed on three contracts with a combined value of £208m. Two are mixed-use schemes and the third is an 80,000 sq m headquarters office building.In Frankfurt it has won two refurbishment ...
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NewsSir Robert McAlpine picked for Olympic stadium
ODA enters negotiations with Team McAlpine Consortium for 80,000 seat stadium