All Archive Titles articles – Page 54
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Safety report needs to cast its net wide
Industry safety will be in the news again with the imminent publication of the special report into construction safety being conducted by Rita Donaghy.
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Archive TitlesSkills shortages: Recession deals double blow to contractors
Survey reveals that recruitment is a problem despite wholesale redundancies and a drop in workload
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Archive TitlesCIOB Innovation Award for Spruced up Timber system
A timber considered unsuitable for construction has been turned into a robust, cheap and sustainable building product, in a new Welsh construction system that has won this year’s CIOB’s Architecture and Surveying Innovation Award.
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Demolition’s Artistic License
Are you involved in a project that will involve demolishing a school, hospital, library or council building in London later this year?
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Archive TitlesGetting to grips with Hand Arm Vibration Sundrome
Contractors can play their part in helping workers reduce the risk of developing HAVS, says Dr Tom Gunston
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Archive TitlesGains and Losses in april’s Crisis Budget
Housebuilders’ shares went sharply up, the Home Builders Federation pronounced itself ‘delighted’ at a package of stimulus measures and the Royal Institutition of Chartered Surveyors looked forward to a ‘vibrant housing market.’
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Archive TitlesWhy we specified: Helirig heavy-lift helicopter antenna replacement, Somerset and Scotland
Mike Stewart, project director, Babcock Networks
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Ann wright’s analysis
Letters of Intent are common construction. On their own, they mean little.
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Archive TitlesInnovators point the way to life after recession
Innovation is good for you – or so we have been repeatedly told since the government’s M4I initiative at the height of the construction boom.
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Back to basics briefing 5: Upstream insolvency
If the client goes bust, a contractor faces real trouble. Unless the contractor has a parent company agreement covering the client’s payment obligations, it will simply rank as an unsecured creditor during the insolvency proceedings.
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CLG launches consultation on new planning policy
Communities and Local Government (CLG) has launched a planning policy which it hopes will set out a clear and integrated approach towards sustainable economic growth.
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Construction index reports April rise
Recession eases but “blue skies still a fair way off”
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EIC to expand in the North East
Gateshead office to act as springboard for the region
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Philips calls on business to opt for energy efficient lighting
€120 billion could be saved on electricity worldwide
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Emcor wins multi-million pound m&e contract for 110 Fetter Lane
Emcor to work alongside Carillion on central London development
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Zero Carbon Hub releases report on zero carbon definition
The Zero Carbon Hub has published its report on the zero carbon homes consultation.