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Brumwell defends immigrants
Retiring UCATT general secretary George Brumwell is to meet Home Office minister Fiona McTaggart next month to ensure foreign workers in the UK construction industry are properly treated
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Durtnell fined £18,000 for fork-lift death
R Durtnell & Sons, the UK's oldest building firm, was fined £18,000 last week over the death of an employee in a fork-lift truck accident
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NewsCleaning the bath
Multidisciplinary consultant Gifford has won the contract to provide building services design work for the restoration of Manchester's grade II-listed Victoria Baths. The Turkish bath, which won 300,000 votes in the final of the BBC's Restoration series last year, has three swimming pools, a Turkish baths suite, a laundry and ...
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Management buys ABB from Swiss parent
Garry Metcalfe, managing director of M&E firm ABB Building Systems, led a management buyout this week from its Swiss parent ABB Group.
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Roof landing
Contractor Gleeson is nearing completion on the £42m Evelina Children's Hospital in Waterloo, south London. The main structure is now in place and the diagrid steelwork over the atrium is being installed. The design by Sir Michael Hopkins incorporates a seven-storey facility with 140 in-patient beds, three operating theatres, a ...
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Uproar as Egan's Asite backs internet auctions
Lowest-cost-wins procurement tool is offered by internet portal headed by partnering advocate Sir John Egan
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CommentThe truth about Ricky
A reader writes - In the latest column by Building readers, Peter Starbuck attacks Ricky Tomlinson's account of events leading to the trial of the Shrewsbury two – or was it seven?
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Mather wins best building prize
Rick Mather Architects’ Sloane Robinson Building at Keble College, Oxford, took the Building of the Year accolade at the 2003 BDA Brick Awards.
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Row over internet auctions
Big industry hitters are backing the lowest-cost-wins procurement tool despite fears it will undermine supply chain best practice
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A matter of interest
This was an appeal by the claimant against a costs order made by the first instance judge following a successful appeal in respect of the sum of money awarded to him as damages. The judge had awarded the claimant £81,182 plus interest on a total claim for over £4.3m, but ...
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Click to survive
How internet auctions are making cut-throat tendering respectable: an eight-page investigation
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NewsWates hunts for fresh blood as Robertson bows out
Chairman to fill in while firm headhunts a successor to chief executive Struan Robertson
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FeaturesPeter Vince
There's a good reason for these kid-in-a-candy-store looks. The boss of one of the UK's hottest project management firms is out to double its £20m turnover in three years – and fulfill his childhood dream.
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C'mon everybody
Here are 10 steps to making the world a better place to do business in – and all can be adopted without converting to Buddhism, becoming celibate or giving up alcohol
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Revealed: McAlpine civil war may hinge on 1930s deal
Alfred McAlpine faces £2m loss if Sir Robert wins High Court injunction to stop rebranding under family name
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FeaturesWhere grass will be greener
Last Friday, Wimbledon submitted designs for a brand new Centre Court. We report on the concertina roof that will revolutionise our televisual experience of the tennis championship by banishing the rain, extending the hours of play and, most importantly, keeping a lid on Sir Cliff
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FeaturesHomage to isokonia
This block of tiny flats in north London was once the trendiest address in 1930s Britain. Agatha Christie, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer all lived here. In the 1990s, only the pigeons called it home. We report on the restoration of a modernist gem