Archive for October 16th, 2006

51% of UK construction professionals feel corruption commonplace within UK according to survey by CIOB

CIOB (Chartered Institute of Building) have published the results (pdf) of a survey of 1400 construction professionals. From their press release:
The World Bank has estimated the cost of corruption to the global economy at US$1.5 trillion a year. More specifically corruption in the Great British construction industry could cost anywhere up to £3 billion [...]

Energy Saving Trust embraces Flickr and asks us all to commit to saving 20%

The Energy Saving Trust have embraced the power of Flickr to promote their campaign urging us all to save 20% of the energy we currently use.
If, like me, you have hundreds of photos on Flickr, the site can be quite slow to load. You can also search for images of where you would like [...]