All Building articles in 2008 Issue 15 – Page 3
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Wind farm scrapped to protect rare birds
Plans for onshore windfarm in Western Isles fails to get approval under EC law on protected habitat
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MPs slam Olympic budget
Watchdog says government failed to predict amount of public sector spending
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A grab bag of green building
Everyone's going green, even Las Vegas is winning LEED ratings - on grand scale, says Jerry Yudelson of Yudelson Associates in Arizona
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Skanska UK wins £88m Two Kingdom Street project
Contractor picked by Development Securities for 13-storey builidng at PaddingtonCentral
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Tonkin Liu picked to design London Festival of Architecture pavillion
The 'Fresh Flower' pavillion will invite visitors to entre through gaps between 11 giant petals
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Piccadilly line trains to be cleaned with recycled water
Tubelines announces it is building a rainwater harvest system to be in use by June
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Small firms lose out through rivals' unfair sales tactics
Government to tackle unfair trading practice through new consumer protection regulations that come into force next month
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MPs urge HSE to set up national crane register
Select committee backs Building’s Safer Skyline campaign and voices concerns about HSE resourcing
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Amey Mouchel workers jailed for racist bullying
Three-year sentence follows 10-month campaign of “dangerous” harassment at motorway maintenance depot
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Construction Confederation demands clear evidence from OFT
Unqualified allegations on bid rigging blamed for generating media sensationalism
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The Weekly Green Gauge 18 April 2008
Stern piles alarm upon panic and Bush still does nothing. So where should I put my solar PV array? in this week's Green Gauge
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Fix the Tube and win my vote
Mayoral candidates take note: London's economic success is in jeopardy if we don't sort out our transport infrastructure
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Cover pricing is not a widespread evil
Builders in general want to win work, so the idea they are all conspiring to divvy up jobs and pay back-handers is quite frankly a load of baloney
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Paper round: 'Are builders dim or devious?'
In depth analysis by the nationals into the OFT's bid-rigging investigation of the construction industry
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Growing hemp houses in Three Gardens
The last nut and bolt are tightened on ground breaking eco-friendly housing scheme in Suffolk
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Think 08: You don't always need to invent innovation
Don’t reinvent the wheel until you know how to drive. Why innovation needs to focus on techniques as much as whizzy products, writes Jon de Souza, director of regions and demonstrations at Constructing Excellence, who is speaking at next month's Think event
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APC Trainer on... Procurement and Tendering Competence (T062)
This is a core competency for both quantity surveyors and project managers that the candidate must demonstrate competence to level 3
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Grove Village Manchester
Watch how local residents and a Grove Village consortium transformed a no-go Manchester estate into Building's PFI Project of the Year