1) The document announces that the Christmas party season has begun and encourages uploading party pictures to the Building Network website. 2) It provides a list of the most read articles on the Building website from the previous week, including stories about job cuts at Aecom, school construction projects, and the Dubai debt delay. 3) It announces that voting is closing for the Sustainability Now awards and the winning Green Gurus will be announced at the virtual conference on December 8-9.

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Christmas party season has officially begun, so how is your
office celebrating? Whether it's a fine dining experience or a
mm. night on the dance floor you can rrawupload your party
V pictures on the Building Network. To register, go to
I httpV/network/building.co.uk and click on the
£* events images tab. Have fun!
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MOST READ
What you read on www.building.co.Lk last week
^ Aecom to cut 350 more jobs
" Consultant reduces workforce 13% in UK and Europe
2 GreenlightforElbnofschodsprojects
12 BSF schemes given government approval
2 World markets rattled by Dubai debt delay
Debt repayment delay triggers fall in property shares
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4 Woman is ranked one of UK's 10 best builders
Former Savile Row manager named in TrustMark's top 10 This photograph of th. King's Cross station northern ticket hall in London
whichoponedlast Sunday, was taken by damages. To view this and other
images, go to www.building.co.uk/fiickr
5 Double win for Rab Bennetts at Sustainability Awards
Archrtect wins sustainability leader and project of the year
SHORT AND TWEET x
SUSTAINABILITY NOW 3.05pm. 6 Nov Three more followers and I'll have 500!
12.37pm, 17 Nov Does anyone know of any property/construction
networking events in Glasgow or Edinburgh?
Who will be the
sustainability champions
4.08pm, 18 Nov The diary is filling up for December - how I iove
the party season!
for2009?Votinghas
1.22pm, 24 Nov Subcontractors, use email signatures with your tel
been taking place online
no. if dealing Wlth estimators. They get frustrated when they can't
and will come to a close at get in touch quckly.
the end of today, The
winning Green Gurus will be announced at our virtual conference 2.09pm, 24 Nov New profile piC: this is me if you haven't met me'
sustamaD.l.ty Now. on 8 and 9 December. To discover who picked 9.52am, 1 Dec 4 peop|e have asked my how I gOl into Construction
ua the gongs and to take part in the conference's live online in the last Few weeks. Does anyone else get asked this loads?
3bates go to www.building.co.uk/sustainabilitynow
Follow Laura McCracken at twitter.com/harmonixltd
MILES FREEMAN
What's your preferred means of
What's your favourite site?
communication? What are your latest book buys?
Various sites related to owning a
mther the mobile phone, which on some days
smallholding. Over the pa3t few
| An extremely useful book from Amazon
seems permanently pressed to my ear, or email. on DIY for Smallholders.
weeks I have had to research information on
Where shall we play?
building a pig ark (www.macneanfam.com),
What's your favourite fTuno?
chicken houses, fences and gates as well as
: -as to be the Wii, which is definitely the I do not own an iFbd, but my children do. I use
sourcing parts for my vintage tractor (which is
most inclusive and regularly sees up to cTunes to source songs I can't get any other way.
almost as old as me!) and find recipes for
three generations of my family playing
home brew from the hedge
together. Miles Freeman is a partner in consulting engineers
(www.selfsufficientish.com).
Hoaro Lea, with responsibility for its London office
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