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December 2006 - Posts
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The government published its latest edition of focus on freight today, examining the trends in freight over the last 10 years to 2005.
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The government has launched four major consultations - on shipments of waste, proposed marine works, flood & coastal erosion risk management, and the energy review.
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A £2.2bn complex of apartment and office blocks in Brooklyn has been approved by planning authorities in what would be the biggest project by a private developer in New York's history. The project would see the construction of 16 skyscrapers and a basketball arena over nine hectares (22 acres) of downtown Brooklyn, a site almost one and a hlf times the size of the World Trade Centre. The Guardian
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Edinburgh's tram network received a major boost yesterday when councillors voted to approve the draft final business case.
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Today will be the last daily news alert until Tuesday 2 January
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The Christmas plans of hundreds of thousands of people are in jeopardy because of the severe fog which has grounded flights from British airports. BA has cancelled 180 flights out of Heathrow today, including all domestic services - The Independent
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The government has given £30M to the Thameslink project for project planning and design development, with final decisions on funding the scheme to conclude in summer 2007.
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Pell Frischmann has won the contract to design a new terminal and piers at Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi.
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The Department for Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is looking for views on its new proposals for dealing with hazardous substances found in surface waters, published today.
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Waste contractor SITA UK announced today it has signed a 28 year private finance initiative (PFI) contract with Northumberland County Council.
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The 2012 Olympic park moved one step closer to construction yesterday as the London Development Agency (LDA) won compulsory purchase powers for the east London site.
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Network Rail has revealed plans to slash its rail renewal contractors from six to four in a bid to achieve £150M efficiency savings across the railway.
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Bedfordshire County Council expressed its frustration today after government cut £1.5m from next year's funding allocation for repair of Bedfordshire's roads.
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All flights within Europe are expected to be subject to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETC) under plans due to be announced today by the European Commission.
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Two years after the Tsunami, billions of pounds worth of donations from governments and individuals have still to be been spent on reconstruction.
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Passenger numbers, distances travelled and revenue for the rail operators are all up, according to the latest National Rail Trends report, published by the Office of Rail Regulation today.
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Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling and Environment secretary David Miliband, yesterday consented to two new offshore wind projects off the south coast, the London Array and Thanet.
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The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has launched a report warning that World Bank policies could hamper social development in low income countries.
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Transport Secretary Doug Alexander this week highlighted several schemes favoured for funding from the Transport Innovation Fund.
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France's SNCF will attempt to raise the world speed record for a conventional train to at least 342mph in the New Year - smashing their own 16-year-old record. Tests with a new generation high-speed train à grande vitesse (TGV) will attempt to push the speed record for steel wheels on steel rails to at least 550kph, possibly even to 570kph - The Independent
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Wembley stadium's retractable roof will take three-quarters of an hour longer to close than originally planned because of fears over its safety when moving at design speed, NCE discovered this week.
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In a strategic review of the business finalised this month, chief executive Samir Brikho confirmed that the building and civil engineering division, building and facilities services division, property developments division, concrete manufacturing business Buchans and the PPP arm will all be sold off.
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The Souter family is to collect more than £100m after the transport company they founded, Stagecoach, yesterday announced plans to return at least £400m to shareholders.
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Atkins chief executive Keith Clarke has stepped down as chairman of struggling Tube contractor Metronet.
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Dam experts this week slammed the safety record on the Karahnjukar Dam project in Iceland, as client and main contractor defended their performance on the scheme.
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Demolition work starts on the Olympic Park today with the destruction of a disused sports hall on Eton Manor in the north of the Olympic Park.
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The government has awarded Airbus UK half of the £34M costs for the first phase of the 'Integrated Wing' concept programme.
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Network Rail chief executive John Armitt today announced his intention to retire at the end of July 2007.
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The Arctic could lose virtually all its summer sea ice by the year 2040 - 40 years earlier than previously thought -according to a study by leading climate scientists.
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Better transport infrastructure is needed across the south east to boost economic growth, the South East England Regional Assembly warned today.
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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) today confirmed that it proposes to refer the British Airports Authority (BAA), owned by Spanish giant Ferrovial, to the Competition Commission. The OFT invites comments until 8 February 2007 before making its final decision.
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Three contractors have been awarded bonanza road maintenance contracts in London that could be worth £1bn over 10 years.
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The beleaguered Airbus A380, has received certification from both the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
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Civil engineering firms are struggling to recruit graduates because they are not engaging with students and universities, academics and skills advisors said this week.
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Finding skilled railway engineers will be suddenly more difficult when the Home Office removes them from its critical skills shortage list next week.
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High profile and exciting projects are the main drivers for engineers moving jobs according to a recruitment survey of over 200 engineers published this week.
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Mott McDonald has accused Italian contractor Impregilo of failing to implement health and safety procedures following an accident on site at the Kárahnjúkar Dam project in Iceland, which left a construction worker critically injured.
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United Utilities pleaded guilty to supplying water unfit for human consumption at St Helens Magistrates Court yesterday.
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The Souter family is to collect more than £100m after Stagecoach, the transport company they founded, announced plans to return at least £400M to shareholders. Its chief executive, Brian Souter, has a 15% stake, while his sister Ann Gloag, now a non-executive director, has 11 per cent. Mr Souter, 51, and Ms Gloag, 63, founded the business in 1980 to take advantage of the liberalisation of public transport under the Thatcher government - The Independent
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Chancellor Gordon Brown today pledged £550M to fund research into renewables technology.
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Chief executive of the Macquarie-owned Midland Expressway Limited, Tom Fanning, told NCE: "The raising of our prices now comes at a time where other tolling operations such as the Dartford River Crossing and the Severn Bridge are raising their levels."
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Sustainable design principles pioneered in China are to be applied to the Thames Gateway development, it emerged this week.
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Planning approval for major infrastructure projects must be speeded up to avoid the UK grinding to a halt, two key government advisors warned this week.
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NCE Graduate Award winners last week challenged engineering firms to donate cash to development charity Engineers Without Borders after giving away their prize money.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown will give his pre-budget report this lunch time and, in response to the Stern Review on climate change, is expected to raise taxes on carbon emitting modes of transport.
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The Barker review proposes allowing more building on green belt sites around cities. The proposal drew protest from environmental groups, who predicted a "sprawl" of new development across the countryside - The Financial Times
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Shares in May Gurney rose today thanks to good interim results, the company's first since floating on AIM in June.
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The former chairman of the troubled 2012 Olympics in London left with a £150,000 pay off, it emerged last night.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown has accepted that the regulatory burden associated with managing inert waste is "unnecessary", it was revealed today.
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The Royal Academy of Engineering has urged the government to invest in training of nuclear engineers to ensure that its newly unveiled nuclear submarine programme can be built in the UK.
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A series of free regional Site Waste Management Plan (SWMP) workshops is being organised by the government-funded environmental advice agency Envirowise.
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National road tolls should be launched during the next decade to help prevent US-style gridlock said Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander today.
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The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) have published a performance report detailing the wide range of work that it has overseen during the past year to reduce work-related fatalities, injuries and illness.
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Transparency and clarity on the cost of hosting London 2012 is urgently needed if Londoners are to remain supportive of the Games, it was claimed today.
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Two firemen were killed as they tackled a major blaze in a fireworks depot that exploded yesterday.
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Yorkshire Forward today became the first Regional Development Agency (RDA) to adopt a target for the use of recycled materials in construction projects.
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A consultation on flood protection for London and the Thames Estuary is to be launched later this month as part of the Thames Estuary 2100 project, flooding experts told delegates at Civils 2006.
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London 2012's project manager CLM, the consortium of CH2M Hill, Laing O'Rourke and Mace, yesterday signed up to the Olympic Delivery Authority's (ODA) health and safety standards.
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Airbus plans to give about half the work on its planned A350 XWB jet to independent suppliers and will encourage them to use subcontractors in China. The move is likely to prompt job cuts and factory closures at its plants in Europe - International Herald Tribune
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Less and less self-employed people are saving money for their retirement, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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