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NewsOlympic stadium scaled back amid fears over cost
Design will include only one covered stand and remain athletics venue as masterplan unveiled
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NewsBlowing in the wind
The Joseph Rowntree Trust’s pioneering development – the pre-fabricated city-centre apartments for single people at affordable rents (CASPAR) housing scheme in Leeds – will be demolished.
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CommentBarratt’s big deal is just the start
The increasingly dramatic world of housebuilding took a spectacular plot twist this week.
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Without a care
On 9 January 2001, Ian Gray, a fire alarm installation engineer and employee of Fire Alarm Fabrication Services Limited (FAFS) fell through a skylight window in the roof of a building at Victoria Station. He died as a result of the injuries he sustained.This was an appeal by E H ...
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Features‘How could this happen in a civilised country?’
Last September, Liliana Alexa’s son Michael died while he was washing his car – the first member of the British public to be killed in a tower crane collapse. Angela Monaghan explains why a public register of crane safety checks is needed to ensure that he is the last.
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CommentA skip of one’s own
If a skip has your name stamped on the side, that’s your skip, isn’t it? And anyone who takes it should jolly well give it back, right? Well, not always, as this cautionary tale demonstrates
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CommentDangerous drop
Sites are safer than they were in 2002, but the next set of HSE statistics will show that things are getting worse. The causes are difficult to pinpoint but the solutions are easier to find
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CommentDistinctly average
Below par performances this week from the officials at the TCC and a Scottish recruitment consultant. At least Mace’s attempts to join the celebrity party circuit are more than OK...
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NewsNG Bailey hunts YouTube pranksters
M&E contractor launches investigation after footage of workmen setting each other alight is uploaded on You Tube
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NewsNG Bailey hunts YouTube pranksters
M&E contractor NG Bailey has launched an investigation to identify workers who were captured on video footage setting each other alight.
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CommentDoing what it takes
The Olympics will only truly succeed if the powers-that-be overcome their intellectual timidity and attack the problem with passion, imagination and a whole lot of money
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CommentA modest proposal
Tony Bingham Rather than trying to sort out disputes when they occur, wouldn’t it be easier to just write clear and fair contracts so that rows don’t occur in the first place?
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Cabe reveals worst housing designers
Out of Britain’s top 10 volume housebuilders, Bellway Homes is the company with the poorest designed schemes and Berkeley Group is the company with the best, according to an audit by Cabe
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NewsWilson James brings in army chief to boost firepower
Site services firm enlists former combat support head and Axima boss to lead new divisions
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Procurement change sinks Blair’s academy ambitions
Merging of frameworks likely to scupper prime minister’s plan to build 400 academies by 2010
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NewsBalfour Beatty plans more US acquisitions
Ian Tyler, chief executive of Balfour Beatty, has said the company will look to acquire more US firms after buying Texas-based Centex Construction.
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Procurement change sinks Blair’s academy ambitions
Merging of frameworks likely to scupper prime minister’s plan to build 400 academies by 2010
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CommentThe one with two buckets
State your case Is a settlement deal subject to adjudication? Mr Justice Jackson’s answer will stick in the memory. He says it depends on what’s in your bucket.
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NewsMystery firms close in on Foster
The architect met four private equity firms this week ahead of a senior management meeting