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Brown’s next ‘eco’ step
Gordon Brown was this week due to announce the latest moves in his drive to build five eco towns.
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Smoking refuges
Consultant Ridge has managed the provision of “smoking shelters” for Rank, the casino and bingo chain, in time for the smoking ban which came into force in England on Sunday.
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Pay deal rejected
Electrical contracting members of the Unite union have rejected a 5% pay rise over three years.
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Laing appointment
John Laing has appointed Lynn Macgregor group finance director. She joined the John Laing finance team in 1999.
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Hips loopholes
Loopholes that enable homeowners to avoid Home Information Packs, such as removing a bed to turn it into a three bedroom property, will make the scheme “unenforceable” according to critics.
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Tesco pay protests
Tesco shareholders have hit back over a bonus scheme that would see Sir Terry Leahy, the chief executive, take home an extra £11.5m on top of his salary.
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£4.8m SQ1 sale
SQ1, the venture partnership between Miller Developments and Rutterford, has sold the former Motorola site in South Queensferry, Scotland, to Balfour Beatty Rail Track Systems for £4.8m.
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Prescott defied advice on Vauxhall tower
The decision by John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, to allow a skyscraper in south London, went directly against advice from his officials, it has been disclosed.
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NewsLesson for Kazakhstan
HOK has revealed these designs for a school in the Kazakh city of Almaty. It is linked to Haileybury school in Hertfordshire and will be the first British branded school to be built in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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NewsThe desert blooms in Saudi Arabia
Architect Barton Willmore and civil engineer Buro Happold have won a competition to design a futuristic botanical garden and leisure centre in Saudi Arabia.
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NewsToo much waste going to landfill sites, says review of London
More renewable energy is being used in London but too much waste is going to landfill, causing harmful greenhouse gases, according to an environmental report by Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London.
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Merton pioneers eco solution
Merton council is set to pioneer a green technology, which it claims will be more efficient than burning biomass.
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Balfour Beatty and Multiplex tie up £311m PPP hospitals
Balfour Beatty has reached financial close on a £311m PPP hospital project in West Yorkshire.
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NewsSmart Guy’s
Contractor Crispin & Borst is putting the finishing touches to this boiler house scheme at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital in central London.
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A standard position
Reinwood Ltd appealed the court’s finding that L Brown & Sons Ltd had validly determined its employment under the contract on the grounds that Reinwood had continued to fail to pay the amount properly due under an interim certificate by the final date for payment. Reinwood and Brown entered into ...
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New document defines revised daywork definitions
RICS and Construction Confederation create new document for September 1 regulation change
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NewsSmash it up
A one-man demolition machine does a Pete Townsend to a reinforced brick building in Clerkenwell
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NewsGleeds appoints new Scottish associate director
Architect and project manager Jacqueline Nicol joins consultant's Glasgow office