All Building articles in 2006 issue 44 – Page 3
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Jarvis sells US firm for £9.5m
Support services group off-loads US road marking business Prismo
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Timber firm fined £25,000 after fatal fall
Timbnet Rochdale pleaded guilty to charges after an employee fell ten metres to his death
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St Modwen's plans for Mersey leisure complex
Joint venture led by developer reveals cinema and ice rink on banks of the Mersey
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Bechtel pulls out of Iraq
US giant says it will not tender for new infrastructure work after 52 employees have been killed in war-torn country since 2003
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Rob Smith leaves consultant Hays
Managing director of recruitment company will be replaced by Tim Cook
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School procurement comes under fire as delays mount
Building programme falling well behind, according to figures from construction products body
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Olympic media centre to be design-and-build contract
Tessa Jowell tells Building that important scheme would not be a design-led project
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Davis Langdon to offer carbon reduction service
Consultant to introduce carbon audits and advise on how to reduce emissions
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Employee sues over job for life
Duffy construction is facing a £500k claim from a worker for breach of contract
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Atkins in talks to buy architect Pascall + Watson
Giant engineer could become second biggest architect
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Church sued for £600k
Property developers take a church in Wales to court after it pulls out of scheme
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By the side of the Severn
Contractor Willmott Dixon has this week begun work on the New Theatre Severn project in Shrewsbury.
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Zaha triumphs in Sardinia
Zaha Hadid has beat off competition from Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron and Massimiliano Fuksas to win this museum of contemporary art in Cagliari, Sardinia.
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Comment
In the red
The claimant, Nearfield Ltd was one of six parties to a joint venture agreement dated April 2002. Other parties to the agreement included Lincoln Trust Co (Jersey) Ltd (LTC) and LTC’s offshore nominee, Lincoln Nominees Ltd (LNL); second and first defendants respectively. The agreement was entered into for the purposes ...
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Virtual reality
I would like to allay Darryl Nash’s concern voiced in your Specifier section (20 October) that it is challenging for architects to get sufficient building services knowledge to operate the more sophisticated Part L 2006 compliance software tools.
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Do we have to pay up?
LEGAL AID - A contractor has withheld £18k and is claiming a further £60k from the subbie because the project did not meet practical completion. Is there any way to dismiss the claim?
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Workers protest over pay at site in Reading
Workers on a housing project in Reading, Berkshire, have staged protests over pay.
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Message for Margaret
In response to your interview with construction minister Margaret Hodge (20 October, page 30) – I would like to see her position the industry so that a career in construction is seen as desirable for schoolgirls and hope that we can soon read the headline in Ray O’Rourke’s inimitable style, ...
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A letter from Northamptonshire
Shadow minister Tim Boswell shares his thoughts on how to go about building more houses (and roads, schools, clinics) in his parliamentary constituency …