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CommentWhat’s YOUR anti-bullying policy?
SECURITY ALERT — Bullying is not limited to the playground, it is alive and well in the workplace, too. Part of the problem, says Angus Darroch-Warren, is that managers often fail to spot the signs
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NewsThe Hill that climbed a mountain
Company focus M&E contractor Hills has clawed its way into profit after two years in the red
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NewsMultiplex loses first round of Mott MacDonald case
Summary hearing at the High Court clears the way for a full-scale trial in the spring
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NewsBalfour Beatty order book tops £9bn
Contractor says strong 2006 results are in line with market forecasts
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NewsJV wins £336m M1 motorway job
Joint venture comprising Morgan Est, Vinci and Sir Robert McAlpine is awarded M1 road widening work
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Wembley Stadium plans Olympic Steps
Randle Siddeley and Hamiltons Architects submit design for giant steps at stadium entrance
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Housebuilders demand energy market reform
Zero carbon homes summit calls for immediate action to develop local energy sources
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NewsDebate erupts over Colindale blaze
A debate has broken out over whether the insulation used at a timber-frame construction site in Colindale, north London, was responsible for the rapid spread of a fire.
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Barratt completions up 3%
Private housing completions on the up but social housing falls as Barratt changes product mix
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NewsBellway reservations rise 6%
Housebuilder will deliver record completions and turnover for six months to January 2007
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Taylor Woodrow appoints new boss in America
Housebuilder takes on former Related vice president John Landrum
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NewsHousebuilders demand energy market reform
Zero carbon homes summit calls for immediate action to develop local energy sources
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NewsBSF chief: financial close ‘takes 32 months’
Building Schools for the Future (BSF) schemes take more than two-and-a-half years to reach financial close, the man running the £45bn programme has admitted.
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NewsMCG launches safety film for migrant workers
Contractors’ group produces multilingual DVD to combat growth in site accidents
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NewsLiverpool docks to get £130m New World scheme
John Lyall Archtiects wins permission for £130m mixed-use scheme in 2008 Capital of Culture
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FeaturesSustainability: Offices
In this latest feature on eco-friendly development, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines how a growing commitment to sustainability will affect the commercial offices sector, with a case study on how a client’s requirements can be met in a leased building
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What REITS mean for you
REITs became a reality this month, and they are about to become a force in the property development world. But what do they mean for the firms that work with them?
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FeaturesA view from the gods
Looking out over this nondescript part of Leicester, and almost entirely suspended from this roof, will be the UK’s most exciting new theatre – and the first building in this country to be designed by US architect Rafael Viñoly.
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NewsPolar pods
This design by consultant Faber Maunsell and UK architect Hugh Broughton is one of two left in a competition for an Indian research base in Antarctica.
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FeaturesThe new boy
The previous chief executive of Building Schools for the Future spent eight stormy months struggling with the brief before jumping overboard. Tim Byles, the local authority bureaucrat who replaces him, has a different plan, a different style, and (he hopes) a different fate.