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NewsNewport transporter: It's a big Usk
The Newport transporter bridge in south Wales reopened last week after a £1.2m refurbishment project
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Minister seeks to bring forward regs update
Building regulations minister Andrew Stunell has shocked builders by saying he wants to bring the planned revision of the Building Regulations forward by a year to 2012
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NewsShapps delays definition of zero carbon
Housing minister Grant Shapps has been forced to row back from a pre-election promise to get the definition of zero carbon finalised “within weeks” of getting into office
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Officials covered up £705m Part L saving
Civil servants covered up potential savings of £705m in order to help former housing minister John Healey justify scrapping proposed changes to Building Regulations that were designed to make existing homes more energy efficient
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NewsWSP: UK firms must go abroad for bulk of work
Chris Cole, the chief executive of consulting engineer WSP, has warned that UK consultants will do more business overseas than in the UK within two years owing to the shrinking domestic market
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T&T seeks companies for Uganda PPP
Turner & Townsend is seeking contractors and architects to work on Uganda’s first PPP - a £350m upgrade of the country’s police estate
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Jamie Cullum to headline industry charity bash
Singer Jamie Cullum, supported by Diversity, the group that won Britain’s Got Talent last year, will headline this year’s Alliance Ball.
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Correction
Building would like to clarify that Tracy Wright, quoted in the Hays Construction & Property international salary survey feature (“Foreign Offices”,23 July, page 34), works for Digby Morris, and not Hays, as suggested in the display copy.
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NewsVinci to replace Kier on £10m Heathrow T3 refurb
Contractor is replaced ’by mutual consent’ with BAA after project ’not delivered as hoped’
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East Anglia’s green energy centre falls three months behind
An “exemplar” biomass energy centre at the University of East Anglia, built by Morgan Sindall, is three months late in becoming operational
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NewsPFI deal signed for £50m Central Library in Liverpool: Library fine
A £50m PFI deal to renovate the Central Library in Liverpool was signed this week, following four years of planning. The 150-year-old building has now closed while the work is carried out by contractor Shepherd along with Amber Infrastructure.The architect on the scheme is Austin-Smith:Lord. The library is scheduled to ...
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Newswetroom floors
Concealed wet floor shower tray manufacturer On The Level has introduced a system for creating wetroom floors using larger tile formats
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Movers and makers: 30 July 2010
Jones of Oswestry, part of Technogroup, has introduced a colour swatch that shows technical data of slip-resistant finishes, as an option on its Suprasteel and Suprabloc access covers. The finishes provide enhanced surface slip resistance and a choice of visual effects on all sizes and duties of the firm’s solid ...
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NewsVinyl flooring
Karndean has added Oak Premier to its Art Select range of vinyl wood-effect flooring
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NewsWood flooring
Wood floor manufacturer Kährs has launched Woodloc 5S, a mechanical, glueless joint for locking boards together with almost invisible joints
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Floor insulation
A BASF insulated flooring system has been used in the refurbishment of a Victorian stable block at BRE’s headquarters in Watford, Hertfordshire, to provide an overall floor U-value of 0.14W/m2K
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Rubber flooring
A red-orange rubber floor from Artigo has been fitted at the Art Institute of Chicago’s Modern Wing, designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop