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On dangerous ground
Local authorities face tough targets for reducing landfill. In looking for partners for integrated waste management schemes, a balance has to be reached on financing and allocating risk
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Best of both worlds
The benefits of a hybrid procurement route on major projects can be lost by the failure to agree a contract sum. All that is needed is a proper strategy on risk
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The legal league
How have the top legal firms done in the past year? Chambers and Partners has just published its version of the legal Oscars – here's a rundown of who's in the limelight.
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Warming to Chile
Building up relationships slowly and surely rather than through a hard-sell approach is the key to cashing in on Chile's ambitious five-year construction programme.
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On Foster ... Foster On
On Foster ... Foster OnEdited by David JenkinsPrestel£45Given the stream of new volumes on Lord Foster and his architecture, it might be tempting to call this doorstop of a book Foster On and On. It is, in fact, an anthology of writings spanning 30 years, mostly of reviews on Foster ...
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Reinventing the Wheel
Reinventing the WheelEdited by Ian LambotWatermark£35The creation of the London Eye on the Thames riverfront is one of the architectural and engineering triumphs of our time. Ian Lambot followed this process from the concept stage to the opening day with his camera, and this wonderful book is the result. It ...
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Sustainable Housing: Principles & Practice
Sustainable Housing: Principles & PracticeEdited by Brian Edwards and David TurrentTaylor & Francis Books£30Sustainable is used here as much in the sense of self-sustaining communities as of green technologies. Brian Edwards, professor of architecture at Huddersfield University, defines sustainable housing as "housing that meets the perceived and real ...
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Scotland cost forecast
Scottish output soared last year – especially in private commercial – and although new orders are down slightly in 2000, they are forecast to pick up strongly in the second half.New ordersFresh orders for new construction work won by contractors fell in 1999 in England and Wales, according to ...
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Just the job
Social research consultant Helen Bidwell meets everyone from drug users to local residents – but, as yet, no celebrities.
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Appointments
HousebuildersHousebuilder Charles Church has appointed Matthew Nash as sales manager for the area covering Hertfordshire, Essex, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.John Homer has been promoted to area construction manager at Twigden Homes. He will be responsible for the East and West Midlands.Dean Dye, Jason Towers and Brian McDougall have been promoted to ...
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Roving union officials set to inspect any site
Contractors alarmed at Prescott-backed plan to give unions swingeing safety powers.
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Top names do badly in first housebuilding survey
Homeowners slam Barratt, Beazer and Countryside but Redrow and Crest come top of the class.
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Government set to dump planning gain system
November urban white paper is expected to recommend planning gain be replaced by fixed Impact fee.
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Roving union officials set to inspect any site
Contractors alarmed at Prescott-backed plan to give unions swingeing safety powers.
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Arup picks wobbly bridge solution
Engineer Arup has chosen its preferred solution to curb the wobble on the Millennium Bridge across the Thames. The preferred solution, to be revealed in a report next week, is understood to consist of a passive damping system mounted beneath the deck of the £18m bridge, plus secondary bracing added ...
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Jennie Price's successor is named
The Construction Confederation has moved swiftly to appoint its director of public affairs, Stephen Ratcliffe, chief executive. He takes over on Monday, two weeks after Jennie Price's shock resignation. Ratcliffe, 45, who joined the confederation as director of public affairs in 1997 from the Department of Trade and Industry, said ...
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Built Environment 2001
The Builder Group, publisher of Building, has joined forces with United Business Media to stage a major new exhibition aimed at key specifiers across design and construction. Built Environment 2001 is being staged next October at the ExCel complex in the Royal Docks in east London, and is already billed ...
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HBF in last-ditch bid to lobby mayor
Housebuilders makes eleventh-hour attempt to persuade GLA housing taskforce to listen to its views on 50% social housing rules in London.
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'Listen to contractors and craftsmen,' urges Lipton
CABE chairman tells Design Build Foundation conference that clients need to respect specialists' expertise.