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Westfield and Hammerson launch Croydon joint venture
Clients launch Croydon Partnership and confirm design team
Mott MacDonald snaps up Brazilian engineer
UK engineer buys 80-strong environmental engineering consultant based in Rio
Retail cases studies
How the retail industry is cutting carbon
Ike Ijeh looks at the steps the retail industry is taking to cut the carbon
The Co-op's HQ: Have you heard the buzz?
3D Reid’s beehive-inspired HQ for the Co-op in Manchester is not simply another new office block with a slightly unusual form. It is the top BREEAM-rated office in the UK and might just have redefined the corporate atrium
Sustainable supermarket: M&S's new Cheshire Oaks store
At this enormous store in Chester, M&S is putting its Plan A sustainability programme to the test. And from the zero-waste policy to the innovative use of natural materials, all the evidence suggests that this is one plan A that is actually working … Building reports
Westfield Stratford City: Maxing out
?Westfield Stratford City in east London - dead handy for the Olympic park - is Europe’s biggest urban shopping centre, a retail behemoth so large it is really a city within a city with more than 300 shops and 2 million ft2 of retail and leisure space. Ike Ijeh goes wild with the credit card
Cost models
Cost model: Performing arts buildings
Venues for the performing arts are complex, high risk and very much in the public eye. Simon Downing of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company sets out the design and construction considerations and the impact these all have on the total project cost
Retail analysis
Every little store helps
Tesco’s £804m writedown signals a big change for the formerly flourishing supermarket sector. Can the emerging convenience store boom make up for the loss of the out-of-town giant? Adam Branson investigates
