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CAR COMMUTERS will brave jams and even road tolls if they have a free parking space provided by their employers waiting for them at the end of their journey, according to early findings from the Leicester Environmental Road Tolling Study.

NEW FIRE regulations proposed by the government could make sprinklers obligatory in supermarkets and other large uncompartmented single story retail premises.

HISTORIC TEST tanks used to develop the Dambusters bouncing bomb during the Second World War are under threat of demolition by a £300M Private Finance Initiative redevelopment of the National Physical Laboratory's site at Teddington in Middlesex.

THE INSTITUTION of Civil Engineers has sold its directory publishing business to Emap Construct, in effect tidying up a remnant from the sale of the Thomas Telford magazine business in June 1995.

NEVILLE SIMMS, chief executive and deputy chairman of Tarmac, picks up a knighthood in this year's New Year's Honours for services to the construction industry throughout his career spanning four decades. Simms also chairs the Major Contractors Group, was instrumental in the formation of the Construction Confederation which evolved after…

OVE ARUP'S 4,000 staff will share some £4.9M of the firm's £7.3M profit for 1997 - a result up by 30% from last year despite lower than expected returns from other overseas work.

Nicholas Bennett takes over from Hugh Woodrow as chief executive of the Association of Consulting Engineers on 1 April. He is a former MP for Pembroke and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales until 1992 and has recently worked as a consultant to Price Waterhouse.