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ICE PRESIDENT Sir Alan Cockshaw got his presidency off to a business- like start last month.

AS PART of the UK contribution to the High Winds in Urban Area project under the United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction programme, investigators recently made a visit to the target cities.

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Douglas Weston's job as director of projects for the Millennium Commission is a bit of a conundrum. Neither he nor the commission is the client for the 185 schemes now under way around the country - that power lies with the promoters of each individual project. But if any of…

The Millennium Commission is one of 11 distributing bodies responsible for giving Lottery grants to good causes. So far 185 projects on almost 2,000 sites have received millennium grants totalling £1.236bn. The commission is also putting up £200M for a Millennium Award scheme, £20M for a festival and £200M for…

1. National Cycle Network, £184M

Contractors are currently erecting steelwork inside the massive shell of London's Bankside power station as part of its transformation into the Tate Gallery of Modern Art.

Design and build contractor John Laing started work on the £114M redevelopment of Cardiff Arms Park almost as soon as the dust had settled on the Wales versus England rugby international last March.

First £34M phase of the £100M Earth Centre is scheduled to open in 1999. This Millennium landmark project is located at a 160ha fomer colliery site on the River Don near Doncaster. 'It is a place,' says the marketing information 'at which a great national debate about what sort of…

Birmingham's Millennium Point has a science and technology theme and is intended to regenerate the Digbeth area, once the heart of the city.