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...Officials at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have made contingency plans for Thames Water’s failure and dubbed them “Project Timber” because the collapse of the company, which...
...The government remains on standby in case there is a need to temporarily renationalise the company, under plans codenamed Project Timber, a reference to the lumberjack’s warning before an imminent fall....
...According to government and industry figures close to the negotiations, Petitgas is now playing a role in Project Timber, the government’s contingency plans for the potential failure of Thames Water, which...
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...“Illegal logging accounts for up to 30 per cent of the global timber trade,” she explains....
...A specialist wood recovery firm, which buys and resells old timber, offered $500,000 for the wood alone; had it been a couple of years older, and so predated the civil war, the company told Carroll it would...
...They will be made with blocks of expanded cork from the Portuguese company Corticeira Amorim....
...I also very much enjoy a humble timber fireplace. (We have two of these in our rented country cottage.)...
...More than two-thirds of the claims total is expected to come from residential dwellings, according to the company’s earthquake model....
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...industry and science, said that while Australia’s economy had thrived over the past three decades, recent trade tension with Beijing had shown how dependent some of its largest industries, including coal, timber...
...Studies have shown that a charcoal-like substance made from waste timbers can absorb the chemicals from sewage sludge for them to be destroyed....
...He began building houses after graduating from high school, having studied under a master craftsman in his hometown of Kobe; after polytechnic he took a job with a building company....
...Harbor House is the win up here, despite the presence of hotels that are ostensibly more exclusive (The Heritage House) or “cool” (Timber Cove Resort)....
...The long timber boardwalk that meandered through native melaleuca to the shore was, like everything else, gone, bits of timber still smoking....
...Elsewhere, companies are emerging to do the processing work at scale....
...“But I don’t see us try to replicate [the] Liberty [store],” Mehboob-Khan added, referring to the famous building constructed in 1924 using the timbers of two ancient three-decker battleships....
...Founded in 1995, Zhongzhi expanded from timber processing to property and finance....
...“We’ve got to import the barley, we’ve got to import the timber . . . we’ve got all those costs, it’s a really, really new environment for us....
...The company said it is building around 10 per cent of London’s new private and affordable homes. “One way you could look at it is that sales are only down 35 per cent,” Perrins said....
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...She points to three examples: Suri repairable sonic toothbrushes, designed by a UK company and with heads made from plant-based plastic substitutes; the Fairphone, a Netherlands-designed repairable smartphone...
...Dubbed “Project Timber”, the fallout from its failure would have far-reaching consequences. A reckoning is coming in the next few weeks....
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