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Dangerous digger stunts found on YouTube
HSE warns about effects of dangerous clips after death defying digger stunt workman draws over 1,200 hits
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The stranglers
One hand is called administrative efficiency. The other is called funding projections. Together they are throttling the life out of education in the creative arts. We have to fight back while we still can.
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South Coast contractor Dean & Dyball is put up for sale
Balfour Beatty and Galliford Try could lead bidding for £262m turnover regional contractor
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Student hall by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang
This pavilion, designed by graduate students Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang, has been erected at the Architectural Association in central London
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Directors join Erinaceous exodus
Two senior members of staff leave troubled consultant to join EC Harris
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Consultant Wakemans promotes three to its board of directors
Also: development firm Targetfellow announces joint managing directors
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Skanska makes pensions compulsory for supply chain
Construction union Ucatt claimed a historic victory this week after Skanska became the first contractor to require its suppliers to offer their staff pensions.
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Taywood boss bags £2m for seven months’ work
Bumper payouts for senior executives coincides with housebuilder’s plunge into the red
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Crest slows construction of flagship Birmingham project
Chief executive admits sales rate has halved at £261m Park Central since credit crunch began
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Features
Server farms: Where the internet lives
They may look like simple sheds but server farms are the nerve centres of the digital age. And considering they can cost up to £1,000/ft2, building them is big business for M&E contractors. Report includes sustainability discussion
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An unfair adjudication: Humes Building Contractors Ltd vs Charlotte Homes (Surrey) Ltd
Humes Building Contractors Ltd sought to enforce by way of summary judgment an adjudicator’s decision for £158,486.26 plus VAT. The building contract was based upon a JCT Intermediate Form of Building Contract with Contractors Design 2005 Edition. Relations between the parties deteriorated and the defendant purported to terminate the contract ...
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Scotland opens £90m biomass power station
Steven's Croft in Lockerbie could more than doubles Scotland's biomass electricity
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Images: Wilkinson Eyre's Dyson school in Bath
Council grants planning for Dyson design school despite complaints from heritage groups and the Environment Agency
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Becoming one
Many projects go wrong because the way they’re set up means they have no chance of going right. But what has that got to do with the Zen of marine engine repair?
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Government instigates Building Regulation revolution
Two years after it began, Building’s Reform the Regs campaign ends in victory
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Only two architects have won Olympic village work
Glenn Howells and Patel Taylor are commissioned from August’s framework of 47
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The Scottish enlightenment
Cardinal Newman High School in Bellshill, near Glasgow, was lit up last week as part of North Lanarkshire council’s initiative to promote the area for regeneration and growth.
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Pidgley optimistic despite 20% sales drop
Tony Pidgley, the chief executive of Berkeley Group, says his firm is performing better than he feared, despite a 20% slump in sales in the four months to 31 January 2008.
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Development bodies in doubt
A senior civil servant at the communities department has refused to guarantee the future of development corporations set up to aid the construction of 160,000 homes in the Thames Gateway.
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Report slams Scottish school building programme
A third of schools in poor condition and new schools reveal design problems, despite £3.9bn investment