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Thursday23 May 2013

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Nuclear

Japanese contractors in frame for £10bn Horizon nuclear job

23 May 13

Exclusive: Horizon boss says he has “not ruled out” Japanese rather than UK firms for Wylfa power station

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School building contractors to face ‘boot camp’

23 May 13

Firms bidding for work through Pf2 programme to face three week “boot camp” to finalise their bids with clients

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Manhattan Loft Corporation reveals £500m pipeline

23 May 13

MLC chief executive says developer will be sounding out contractors for largest project in coming months

Green Deal

Three in £750m Sussex Green Deal race

23 May 13

Exclusive: Contractors Carillion and Mears among shortlisted firms

Lend Lease

New boss for Lend Lease's Elephant & Castle scheme

23 May 13

Firm appoints head of sustainability who worked on the London Olympic Athletes’ Village

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Money

Davis Langdon off-shoot to turn over £1m in first year

Delay analysis specialist TQEF enjoys strong first four months

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Inquest details kidnapped QS's death

‘Friendly-fire’ ruled out after failed rescue attempt in Nigeria

Sweett board reaches out to rebel shareholders

Board seeks meeting with Francis Ives after quashing attempted coup

Frances Ives

Sweett 'back to business as usual' as coup fails

Consultant to restart search for new institutional investors after takeover bid by Francis Ives failed

Education secretary Michael Gove

EFA starts £1bn schools race

Over 70 schools to be funded but PF2 element suffer drastic cut back

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Zaha Hadid's design for the King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station in Riyadh

Zaha Hadid wins Saudi metro station job

Architect’s design chosen for major Riyadh metro station on world’s largest urban transport project

OMA's Bryghusprojektet in Copenhagen

Work starts on OMA's Copenhagen waterfront scheme

Mixed-use development set to link the city centre, the historic waterfront, and the culturally-rich Slotsholmen district

The Gutenborg project in St Petersburg, Russia.

Mace bags role on £1bn Russian development

Firm wins delivery partner role on £1bn plus residential scheme in St Petersburg

The winning design for Crown Sydney Hotel Resort

Revealed: Fly-through of Wilkinson Eyre's Sydney resort

Wilkinson Eyre Architects have won the design competition for Crown Sydney Hotel Resort on the city’s harbourfront

Middle East

Largest builder in Dubai hit by major strike

Thousands of migrant workers on Arabtec jobs down tools in protest over low pay

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Aquatic centre

Wings removed from Zaha's aquatic centre

Temporary seating removed from landmark Olympic building

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Amazon unveils glass dome HQ

Retailer changes scheme from simple box to futuristic glass domes

Revealed: Grimshaw's Wimbledon tennis masterplan Video

Architect releases fly-through of sweeping changes to historic tennis club site

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Sheffield Uni Engineering Building by RMJM

Balfour Beatty to build £81m Sheffield uni building Video

Balfour Beatty wins the job to build a controversial RMJM-designed engineering building at Sheffield University

Bournmouth regeneration

Morgan Sindall bags two Bournemouth projects

Morgan Sindall appointed to two projects worth £27m as part of a £40m regeneration scheme

Aerial view of Hume Square at Chapelton

Housebuilders picked for £1bn Scots new town

Elsick names firms to deliver first Chapelton homes

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Ambulance

HSE figures show 49 construction deaths last year

Total deaths falls from 50 last year but construction still records highest fatalities of any industry

Timber frame of iCon

Government-commissioned report backs 'wood first' rule

Independent Panel on Foresty back councils’ use of planning law to drive increase in timber buildings

Protests over HSE move to scrap crane safety register

Safety precaution introduced after Building magazine campaign set to be axed after just two years

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Ambulance

Boy dies in crane accident

Police probe eight-year-old’s tragic death

Scales of Justice 212

Contractor jailed over demolition fatality

Manslaughter conviction follows cherry-picker death fall

Royal London Hospital

Crane drama at Royal London showers street with glass

Accident at new Royal London Hospital imperils pedestrians

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Housing

IMF joins critics of Help to Buy

International Monetary Fund warns Help to Buy is likely to inflate house prices and calls for boost to infrastructure spending

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