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NewsDubai bailout fails to cheer UK creditors
$10bn rescue by Abu Dhabi unlikely to lead to quicker debt repayments
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NewsUnite plans landbuying spree for £300m of student homes
Listed housing provider to spend £120m on up to 16 sites in latest sign of improving market
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Architecture Naturally: Student photography competition - 31 March
ADP’s second annual student photography competition Architecture Naturally will focus on the relationship between architecture and the natural world. The competition is open to students over 16 who are studying architecture or photography in the UK. Judging this year’s competition will be programme manager of this year’s chosen charity Architecture ...
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NewsBaby Shard could start on site next year
Construction of the companion tower to the Shard has been signed off by backers, and could start as early as next year
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NewsDramatic exit of the year
Lee Polisano, the founder of the UK arm of US architect Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), left in September to set up his own firm PLP Architecture
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Fears grow over platform safety
Calls for safer working conditions on mobile work elevated platforms have been renewed after an accident last week on Westfield’s Stratford City site, next to the Olympic park, which left a worker in a critical condition
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BDP to buy architect Syna
BDP, the UK’s largest architectural firm, is in advanced negotiations to acquire Abu Dhabi-based practice Syna
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Wates to open in Abu Dhabi
Wates is banking on its record of delivering 35,000 school places in the UK to win work in Abu Dhabi
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NewsPrasad to overhaul Guy’s hospital tower
Sunand Prasad’s practice is set to be chosen to work on a radical refurbishment of Guy’s tower, part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital in London, Building understands, Penoyre & Prasad will design the 34-storey tower’s revamp, which is understood to be worth at least £30m
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NewsCampaign victory
In February, the Health and Safety Executive finally caved in to demand for a national register of safety checks on tower cranes
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NewsBroadway Malyan wins British school job in Abu Dhabi
Broadway Malyan has pipped Foster + Partners and Aedas to a commission for a British school in Abu Dhabi
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NewsHow the state helped – and didn’t
The public sector provided the vast bulk of any work there was in 2009, with fears that spending would slow before the election not holding true
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NewsA green revolution
The carbon-cutting campaign gathered momentum as the year went on, culminating in the Copenhagen summit of world leaders in December – and a last-minute appearance by US president Barack Obama
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NewsAn industry of ill-repute
The public’s opinion of construction took a hammering in 2009 with the Office of Fair Trading’s allegations of tender malpractice against 110 firms
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NewsHanging together
Construction’s disparate yet oddly indistinguishable trade bodies have, as noted by James Wates some years ago, long borne a worrying resemblance to Monty Python’s Judean People’s Front, the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean Popular People’s Front, at least in the eyes of Whitehall
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NewsA Right royal row
Prince Charles is well-known in for his vitriol towards all things carbuncular, but nobody could have predicted the row that kicked off when he criticised Richard Rogers’ designs for the Chelsea Barracks scheme in April