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  • High-profile Gensler: The Dubai chamber of commerce
    News

    Gensler enters property consultancy

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    International architect Gensler is expanding into property consultancy in the UK after poaching two senior managers from consultant Donaldsons.

  • Where the money is: Projects will include the Dubai Towers in Qatar
    News

    EC Harris lands £19bn Middle East bonanza

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Alliance with Dubai property firm is one of the world’s biggest project management deals

  • Olympic village
    News

    2012 Olympic village attracts 500 architects

    2007-06-08T12:00:00Z

    Architects have three more weeks to enter submission before 40 practices are appointed to compete for commissions

  • London Underground
    News

    Metronet appoints Serco to maintain air-con Tube track

    2007-06-08T09:31:00Z

    Serco will maintain the track that is being used by Metronet to test air-conditioned tube trains

  • Comment

    How to play cops and robbers

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Thieves tend to regard building sites as large, open air supermarkets where they can walk in and simply help themselves – bypassing the check-out tills, of course. But there are ways of thwarting them …

  • News

    A bigger splash

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Company focus Urban Splash’s construction management arm is all set to strike out on its own

  • The Laing O’Rourke crane in Croydon, south London, buckled and fell onto the Croydon Park Hotel
    News

    Magnitude of crane safety neglect exposed by HSE

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Four workers narrowly escape death in a crane collapse in Croydon as the Health and Safety Executive lists a seven-year catalogue of serious errors

  • News

    Industry to debate cartel case with OFT

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    The Construction Confederation is to lead an industry delegation that will defend the industry to officials at the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) after a further wave of firms admitted they had been contacted over alleged bid rigging.

  • News

    Morgan Sindall joins big five contractors

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Morgan Sindall increased its turnover by £1bn this week as it confirmed its deal to buy part of Amec’s construction and civil engineering business, and its whole regeneration arm, for £26m.

  • The dissidents’ petition
    News

    RICS members in Hips revolt

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Petition demands withdrawal of proposal for ‘costly’ judicial review of home information packs

  • Features

    The end word

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Five easy ways to reduce waste

  • Features

    War on waste

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    What we’re up against

  • The York building contains 18% recycled materials
    Features

    Follow the team leader

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Building users are getting used to recycling their waste, but what about the people who construct it? British land is one client that knows the benefits from meeting sustainability targets and feels a responsibility to take a lead

  • Features

    About WRAP

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    WRAP works in partnership to encourage and enable businesses and consumers to be more efficient in their use of materials and recycle more things more often. This helps to minimise landfill, reduce carbon emissions and improve our environment.

  • Features

    Better by design

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Designing out waste at the very start saves time and money, and it’s green

  • David Higgins
    Features

    First word

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    reducing waste and making use of recycled materials is no longer the preserve the minority. In fact, the uk’s biggest construction project is leading the way, says david higgins, chief executive of the Olympic delivery authority

  • Features

    Stay ahead of the rules and regs

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Construction might be ahead of the game, but with waste mired in a legal minefield, make sure you know what your obligations are By Joe Griffiths, a partner in Manches

  • Features

    Behind the wall

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Her majesty’s prisons are already great at recycling. now they’re setting ambitious targets on waste reduction and building materials

  • Features

    Balancing the books

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Help is at hand for sites seeking waste-neutral construction – a free, web-based toolkit to measure waste and recycling

  • Features

    Coming around again

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Prodded by the government, clients and the spiralling cost of landfill, contractors are getting better at recycling. we report on efforts to tackle aggregates, timber, plastic, plasterboard and glass