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Interserve wins £30m academy in Leeds
Scheme, part of Leeds BSF programme, will comprise three buildings and a sports pitch and is set to open in September 2011
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NewsMay Gurney wins £60m of waste and recycling work
Infrastructure support services company will work for West Oxfordshire and North Yorkshire councils over seven years
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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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NewsCPA chair: UK ‘will crumble’ if cuts are too deep
The new chairman of the Construction Products Association has warned the government that the country will “crumble” if capital spending drops to projected levels
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Whitehall looks to BAA for procurement tips
Government departments and quangos have approached Steven Morgan, BAA’s capital projects director, to discuss emulating his procurement methods
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NewsCrest prepares for listing amid £350m takeover talks
Housebuilder reassures City as exclusive negotiations with suitor Horizon continue until mid-June
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NewsPPPs ‘vital to £500bn programme’
Public-private partnerships and financing models such as that developed for Crossrail will be critical in delivering the UK’s £400-500bn infrastructure investment in the coming decade
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NewsCitywatch: Who’s flying this plane?
Nerves are beginning to jangle ever so slightly around the Square Mile about the lack of a finance director at Bovis Homes
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NewsRICS reveals first rise in workload for two years
The RICS construction workload survey posted its first increase in two years in the first quarter of 2010
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Gleeson says market is ‘stable’
MJ Gleeson, the housebuilder and strategic land specialist, has said that its strong balance sheet enabled the payment of a special dividend of £7.9m in March 2010
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Costain and Skanska scoop second £15m Crossrail job
A joint venture between Costain and Skanska has won its second enabling works contract on Crossrail
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NewsFirms fear public sector work could fall by 25%
Construction companies are predicting a drop of up to 25% in public sector workloads over the next three years amid concerns that a private sector upswing will not come fast enough to offset the fall
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NewsAll-rounder
Alsop Sparch’s £21m Carnegie Pavilion is nearing completion at Headingley cricket ground in Leeds
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Queen’s speech prompts fears of Nimbyism
Fear is growing that future development will be hampered by bickering and Nimbyism, following the Queen’s speech this week
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£216m police PFI attacked for ‘horrific’ waste
West Yorkshire Police Authority has defended the bidding process for its £216m headquarters PFI after criticism from contractors that it is wasting taxpayers’ money
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Galliford clinches £600m BSF win
The Equitix consortium, which includes Galliford Try, has reached financial close on the £600m Cambridgeshire Building Schools for the Future programme
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NewsThe little dipper
Scott Brownrigg’s The Pool envisages the transformation of a disused tramway underpass in Kingsway, central London, into a swimming pool
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NewsHeading for Reading
Reading Council and Dee Park Partnership have achieved financial close this week on the £44m first phase of the regeneration of Dee Park Estate
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Morrell: firms should run buildings
The government’s chief construction adviser has told architects to scale back their designs to minimise the impact of spending cuts on work volume