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The Construction Industry Trading Electronically initiative is working to set up single data standards allowing the exchange of a wide range of documents. Latest work is developing standards for site based documents such as requests for information.

Desert-island castaways could perhaps be excused for never having heard of the millennium bug, but coverage has reached such a level that for anyone else, there is no excuse.

CONTRACTORS ON the privately financed A1(M) road widening project would have claimed 40M from the government for unforeseen ground conditions had traditional procurement methods been used, the Highways Agency claimed this week.

THE BRITISH Construction Industry Awards for 1998 are launched this week and feature an extra category for major projects worth 50M and over.

ELECTRONICALLY GUIDED buses could be running on the streets of Edinburgh within

ATLAS COPCO is to wind up its Robbins tunnel boring machine production operation just five years after buying the historic US manufacturer.

THE BITTER row between the government and four South Yorkshire councils over who pays for Sheffield Supertrams 97M outstanding construction debt is set to resurface after contradictory accounts of a settlement meeting this week.

PIPELAYING CONTRACTOR AHak has gone bust after runaway expansion crippled the companys cashflow.

GIVEN ANOTHER couple of years or so, London Docklands will be a model for urban integrated transport. The area will be connected to the City centre and surrounding regions by modern and efficient rail and road systems. It even has its own airport with newly expanded links to even more…

In September last year an assessor from the Quality Scheme for Ready Mixed Concrete entered the depot belonging to a small readymixed concrete producer in Northern Ireland to carry out a routine annual appraisal.