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After Copenhagen
Whatever happens in Copenhagen this week, the UK has already committed itself to some of the most ambitious targets for reducing carbon emissions in the world. It’s worth reminding ourselves of that. It’s also worth asking ourselves what this means and how on earth we might, well, get there.The average ...
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NewsPoles apart
This Clapham builder was snapped by Chris Shaw when, he says, slippery weather made standing on a scaffold tube in trainers even less wise than usual. Though Chris was on a roof at the time, he assures us he was stationed “very safely behind a wall with full PPE on”. ...
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Building journalist nabs construction writing award
Building’s assistant editor and technical specialist Thomas Lane was named Construction Journalist of the Year at the 2009 International Building Press awards, which took place at the House of Commons last week
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NewsFeather in the cap
Architect Featherstone Young has recently completed the £900,000 refurbishment and fit-out for communications agency Wieden+Kennedy
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Insurers to review timber-frame safety as claims soar 16%
The insurance industry has said it will launch a probe into the safety of timber-framed buildings, as concern grows over the cost of fire-related claims
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NewsChurchill’s HQ: Portsmouth community centre
Portsmouth council has released this concept design for a landmark community centre.
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Contractors face green tax crackdown
Contractors may have to pay millions of pounds in back tax after it emerged that HM Revenue & Customs is clamping down on projects thought exempt from the aggregates levy
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Whitbread plans eco hotel
Whitbread, the owner of the Premier Inn chain, has announced that it will green its entire stock of hotels and build a low carbon hotel
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Head to head: Copenhagen
Targets vs flexibility - Both sides of the eco debate agree that uncertainty is the main threat to UK plc. But their solutions are very different
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NHS cuts Procure 21+ in half
The NHS has halved the number of places on its Procure 21+ framework after dramatically scaling down the amount of work expected to flow through it
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Stalled Foster hotel close to sale
Foster + Partners troubled Silken hotel in London is expected to be sold before Christmas, according to sources close to the situation
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NewsKingdom coming
Construction of the third of four phases of The Avenues, Kuwait’s largest shopping centre, got under way last month
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Latest construction appointments - 11 December 2009
Glovers Project Services has named Alan Whiting associate director and Andrew Field business development manager
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McLaren wins first deal on Royal Mail’s £300m framework
McLaren Construction has won the first contract under the Royal Mail’s £300m framework deal
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NewsHumphrey’s house
This masterplan by Bennetts Associates is intended to turn the area around Manchester’s Piccadilly station into a civil service campus
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Berkeley goes to market
Berkeley Group has said there is an “increased number of land opportunities” coming to market
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Carillion sells equity stakes
Carillion has sold equity stakes in two PPP projects to investment group Innisfree for £86.9m and said it expects to be in a net cash position by the end of the year
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Askew to leave Taylor Wimpey
Norman Askew, chairman of Taylor Wimpey, has said he will leave the housebuilder by the end of 2010
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ISG bullish about London
Fit-out specialist ISG predicted an upturn in the London fit-out market for 2010 in a trading update last week
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CommentHansom: Dangerous liaisons
Construction has come over all drama and intrigue, it seems. We therefore invite you, ladies and gentlemen, to a cloak and dagger meeting, a masked party and a duelling lesson. Don’t forget your wigs