All Building articles in 24 April 2009 – Page 4
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NewsNetwork Rail appoints GMW Architects to design Milton Keynes HQ
Rail operator calls for tenders from contractors for multi-million pound project
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NewsBechtel scoops work on Crossrail and Reading station
Network Rail has awarded construction firm contract for station rebuilding and improvements and junction work
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NewsTitan prison plans scrapped
Three 2,500-person prisons will be replaced by smaller jails after pressure group opposition
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NewsLeeds £60m football ground extension is approved
The KSS-designed Elland Road redevelopment will include retail facilities and a nightclub
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NewsFunds to unlock housing sites available from May
Developers can start applying for cash from £400m Budget fund to restart stalled schemes from next month
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Muse wins £300m Doncaster contract
Morgan Sindall's development arm will build a civic and cultural quarter in the Yorkshire town
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NewsKeeping those skills up
David Leer snapped these jolly chaps from the Gleeds office window in London. Eight storeys up. Perhaps, in the light of recent redundancies, they are retraining for a career in the circus
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Right on Time
The £80m Time Square regeneration site in the centre of Warrington has been purchased by the North West Development Agency
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Stoke regeneration
A group of regeneration agencies is looking for developers for an £85m project in Stoke-on-Trent
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Comment
Just plane wrong
It’s easy to portray Tamsin Omond as childish (27 March, page 42), but setting her against an ageing politician (whose age I noted wasn’t published) just doesn’t work
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Comment
It's an ill wind...
There will be some positive outcomes from this global recession. The office market is a case in point and I believe that the economic climate will lead, and is already leading, to higher quality, better functioning buildings
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CommentIs the housing market turning?
This is, of course, the question that everybody wants to know the answer to. So let’s put all the evidence together and work out what it tells us...
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FeaturesFrom Grey to Green
Poor old concrete: too dull and not sustainable. Well, the dullness charge never did stack up, but now a report from the Concrete Industry Sustainable Construction Forum intends to deal with the second one by telling the industry how it can transform its environmental image
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Government ups skills pressure
The government is moving towards making training policies a factor in whether firms win public work
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Comment
The noble game
I am fixture secretary for Peper Harow Cricket Club, and we are desperately trying to raise funds to complete phase two of our pavilion
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NewsGimme five
Foster + Partners’ designs for the first five-star hotel near Heathrow have been approved by the mayor of London
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NewsHousing starts rise for the first time in two years
Starts on site increase 2% in the first quarter, as social build outstrips private starts in March
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NewsDavis Langdon makes at least a dozen partners redundant
Firm has made 12 partners redundant as the recession continues to squeeze cost consultants