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Former McAlpine boss charged
The former managing director of Alfred McAlpine’s slate business has been charged with fraud relating to accounting irregularities found at the division.
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NewsBuilding wins Press Gazette award
Building has scooped the prestigious award for business reporter of the year for the third year running.
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Construction body to axe staff
The Construction Confederation is in consultation with staff over redundancies following a recent shake-up of contractors’ industry bodies.
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NewsGreat Danes: Steven Holl's mixed-use scheme
American architect Steven Holl has won the design competition for a mixed-use scheme on the Copenhagen waterfront
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News‘I’m hoping bad weather this winter might keep me in business’
After 40 years in roofing, this is the worst yet for Paul Strank
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537 construction firms folded in third quarter
There were more than 500 insolvencies in the construction sector in the third quarter, an increase of 16% on the second, writes Sarah Richardson.
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Fit-out firm Bancroft axes 15
M&E specialist Bancroft has been forced to make about 15 redundancies as the credit crunch starts to affect more specialist firms, it is understood.
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Chief executive leaves Emcor
The boss of troubled M&E contractor Emcor has left the business as part of a shake-up of the senior management team, in the wake of a £6.1m loss posted by the company this summer, writes Stuart Macdonald.
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NewsOffice favourite: Largest Czech office scheme
One of the Czech Republic’s largest office developments has reached completion
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Carillion has a new director of training services
Also: architect Sheppard Robson appoints associate partner
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Ucatt: Change in asbestos law may have put workers at risk
Repair and maintenance workers are regularly risking their lives through exposure to asbestos, unions and safety groups have warned.
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NewsVOSA’s new parking space
The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) has taken up residence in Holder Mathias Architects’ £7.5m office building in Swansea, developed by Babcock & Brown in partnership with the Welsh assembly.
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Features
What it costs: Insulated renders
Insulated render systems save energy and look good. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans sums up the variety of choices and highlights some topical issues and lifecycle costs
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FeaturesDressing the pinnacle
Putting a cladding system on a shape as eccentric as the Pinnacle tower is hard enough. But how do you give it openable windows as well? Stephen Kennett found out
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FeaturesVentilated cladding
Rainscreen cladding from Shackerley has been used to help transform Boston House, a former shoe factory in Leicester, into 44 apartments, including eight penthouses.
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High-pressure laminate panels
Specialist cladding manufacturer CEP Claddings has extended the number of finishes for its Bauclad range of high-pressure laminate panels.
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Pre-painted cladding panels
Kingspan XL Forté is a pre-painted system from Kingspan Insulated Panels.
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Accoya cladding
The first office building clad in Accoya – a modified softwood – has been unveiled in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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Solar shading
Solar shading from Levolux has been used on Foster + Partners’ Folkestone Academy in Kent.