All Building articles in 2007 Issue 24 – Page 2
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NewsCyril Sweett workers approve stock market flotation
AIM listing later this year as 98% of employee shareholders say yes
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NewsWelsh firms fined £58,000 after fatal electrocution
Miall Roberts was killed in 2004 when an overhead powerline came into contact with a concrete pump
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NewsODA hoists flag for Dorset 2012 sailing bid
Bids are invited for the construction of the Olympic sailing facilities at Weymouth and Portland
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NewsDavid Pretty, Peter Cook and David Adjaye on Queen's Honours List
Peter Cook is made a knight and David Pretty a CBE as Queen honours leading figures in construction industry
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NewsWillmott Dixon wins £35m leisure deal
Rotherham council selects contractor to design, build and maintain four PFI leisure centres over 32 years
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NewsPaper round: 'Green leases' will penalise workers
While UK developers consider fines for office workers who keep the lights on Beijing's housebuilders are told not to be so smug
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NewsStriking a pose
There is a defiant nonchalance in the poses of these two workers enjoying a break
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NewsBiodiesel firm to float on AIM
Public listing will fund second plant in Ellesmere Port to convert animal fat into energy
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NewsHouse prices increase at slowest rate since February
Housing stock is the highest in three years as sellers try and avoid HIPs
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NewsEgret West unveils eco-science park - images
Brown roofs and public green spaces make it one of the country's first environmentally sustainable business parks
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FeaturesShould English Partnerships clamp down on buy-to-let?
EP decided to curb buy-to-let sales on some of its sites recently. Should it be trying to buck the market?
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Metronet looks to reduce workload
Company in dispute with London Underground over cost overruns expected to reach between £750m and £1.2bn by 2010
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NewsDavis Langdon to report third successive year of growth
Consultant retains top spot as global turnover reaches £221m for year to April 2007
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NewsMultiplex family sells up after 45 years
Contractor to be sold to asset manager Brookfield for £3.1bn
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NewsFoster profit soars 136% with ‘further rises to come’
Architect pays himself £2.9m and buys the practice’s aircraft after making £5.9m profit
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NewsDeath race 2007
John Campbell sent in this photo from the South China Morning Post showing labourers demolishing a building in Nanjing.
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Comment
A warning
The claimant, Hart Investments, sought to hold the first defendant, Fidler, responsible for the collapse of part a building that Hart owned. Fidler was a structural engineer and denied responsibility for the collapse. He was employed by both the claimant and the second defendant, building contractor Larchpark.Hart alleged that Fidler ...
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Tube train testing
Metronet, the tube maintenance group, has appointed Serco to manage the maintenance of a test track in Leicestershire for air-conditioned trains.