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£1bn nuclear plant may use T5 pay deal
The Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment in Berkshire is in talks over using the Heathrow Terminal 5 agreement on a £1bn scheme.
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JR Knowles' board accepts £7m takeover by Hill
Board of dispute firm J R Knowles recommends offer from construction consultant and legal specialist Hill International
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Profit increases fivefold at Scott Wilson
Preliminary results for the year to 30 April 2006 show the firm’s pre-tax profits leap to £19.3m from just £4.3m the previous year.
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2006
As the all-powerful supercontractor Amec brings its reign to a close by splitting the company, Mark Leftly takes a look at how the Davids of the industry are coming to the fore.
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Features
Building intelligence Q1 2006: Why the blip?
Experian Business Strategies reports on what happened in 2005 when construction output fell for the first time in a decade – and just how far the industry has to go to recover. Plus, how we compare with the overall economy, and the latest new work and R&M output and order ...
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FeaturesJolly green clients
A strong urge to get back to nature – or at least become more sustainable – has gripped clients this year. Katie Puckett and Caroline Stocks discover how 50 of the biggest spenders are focusing their £12.1bn combined construction budget on all things green
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NewsWolseley revenue shoots up 25%
Materials firm Wolseley announced this week that group revenue for the first 11 months of the financial year had risen 25% on the same period last year.
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CommentThe view from The Edge
Burn, baby, burn - We’re meant to be saving energy, so why does it get cheaper the more you use
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CommentSpeakers cornered
Charles Kennedy spills the beans on how he winds up John Prescott, we find out why Zizou will never get ahead, batty ways to stop planning approval, and a lady’s honour is rescued by some quick thinking
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NewsBrownfield is not always the answer
Home front - The government must take a less dogmatic attitude to greenfield development
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CommentBeyond the liquid lunch
Congratulations on an insightful article (14 July, page 28) that starts to peel away the layers covering drug and alcohol abuse on site.
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Responsible journalism
Last week’s Building provided particular amusement to my wife who has taken to flicking through the latest issue while we enjoy breakfast together on a Saturday.
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A for effort
Your article “CABE: Half of schools are badly designed” (7 July, page 14) gives the wrong message and the report you refer to from CABE is a little out of date, failing as it does to acknowledge the substantial work recently done to improve school design.
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Mass appeal
I was very interested in the measures required to upgrade a 100-year-old house in respect of thermal efficiency (7 July, page 44).
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Time for a new revolution
Great Britain is a land covered with urban sprawl, most of it built more than 50 years ago when nobody considered valuing the environment they needed to exist in. The huge loss of energy from inefficient buildings is an embarrassment on a global level, as we initiated the Industrial Revolution.
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CommentDid Building slip up?
What an excellent example to us all of health and safety awareness the front cover of Building (14 July) is. So much so that I hardly know where to start. However, I will try:
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While were on the subject
Can I bring to your attention to an advert that your publication carried for “DHL exel supply chain”. The operative in the photograph is standing on the rail of the crane, which I understand is not good health and safety practice. Also the advert goes on to state DHL are ...
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Call in the taxman
Energy efficiency taxation would be an incentive to effect a programme of energy savings.
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Me, a cynic?
I have often been forced down the lawyer path of giving construction dispute advice with the preamble of “on the one hand, and on the other”. I was thus somewhat surprised to read that Helen Garthwaite (23 June, page 80) has the confidence to take a firm view.
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