All Building articles in 21 May 2010
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NewsCrossrail budget may be slashed by a third
Central London station and two spurs face the axe as project team works to cut £5bn from budget
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NewsBaqus issues profit warning
Listed QS says slowdown in construction sector will mean it will not meet market expectations this year
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NewsFormer Balfour Beatty employee loses unfair dismissal claim
Project manager Alan Dransfield was seeking £300,000 in lost earnings, claiming he was sacked for raising safety concerns
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NewsBAM Nuttall to repair Hochtief tunnel
Contractor to carry out £20m of work on structure that collapsed eight months after official opening
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Galliford Try scoops £21m of work
The two projects in north-west England are the regeneration of a park in Warrington and a mosque and residential units in Ashton-under-Lyme
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Archive TitlesInfrastructure sector hit by falling workload
Four out of five large civils contractors reported fall in workload in last quarter
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FeaturesNelson's ship in a bottle: How did they do that?
The latest fourth plinth artwork is a cute idea, but it took some hefty engineering to make the concept a reality, as one of the team behind it explains (plus he shows us the actual calculations)
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NewsGreen light for £78m Bodleian library revamp
Wilkinson Eyre designs will open up Giles Gilbert Scott’s ’book fortress’ to the public
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NewsMetro plan for Jeddah unveiled
Saudi’s second city to build 108km network as work starts on Riyadh metro
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NewsLibya reveals £36bn infrastructure plan
New pot of money for infrastructure and housing projects comes on top of £66bn announced in 2009
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McGee wins first contract on £200m Liverpool scheme
Contract for 459-space car park is first on Merepark and Ballymore’s Central Village
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Telford reports rising sales in East London
Housing group reports 10% increase in profit in ’extremely encouraging’ market
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Shaftesbury profits from booming West End
Property group’s restaurants and shops benefit from rise in overseas visitors
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NewsHCA faces £600m blackhole
Housing quango suspends all spending decisions after Treasury refuses to confirm previous funding promises
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NewsGovernment to scrap regional development agencies
Coalition’s Queen’s speech sets out plans to give more power to councils and ditch regional spatial strategies
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NewsCoalition confirms high-speed rail plans
Queen’s speech sets out intention to build £17bn rail link from London to Birmingham
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NewsWates bags £88m Hackney housing job
Confirmation of HCA funding gives green light to long-delayed Ocean Estate development
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NewsMayor opens Candy Brothers' affordable housing scheme
Seventy homes unveiled in Westminster as the affordable housing contribution for One Hyde Park development in Knightsbridge