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NewsVinci buys bulk of Haymills
French company is purchased contractor’s East Anglian contracting business and property solutions division
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NewsWant to get your building listed? Get Banksy to spray it
English Heritage moots listing buildings with painting or decoration of ‘artistic interest’
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NewsJuly: A month of very public success for Laing O’Rourke
Business barometer: £1.1bn schools win takes contractor to top spot, as council work dominates lists
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NewsAlstom warns union off strikes
Lawyers for French engineering giant Alstom have written to the GMB union threatening legal action if it goes ahead with planned strikes in September
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NewsTender enquiries inch upwards
More construction firms reported a rise in tender enquiries in June than reported a drop, the first time this has occurred in a year and a half, according to figures from market analyst Experian
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NewsMorgan Sindall boss warns that clients are shunning SMEs
John Morgan, executive chairman of Morgan Sindall, has said clients are giving more work to large contractors amid fears over the financial health of small and medium-sized firms
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NewsCliffhanger
Thanks to William Blake, who noticed these perilous clifftop repairs while on honeymoon in Corsica
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NewsBono Happold: Buro Happold structure for U2 tour
Buro Happold designed this moving video screen for U2’s 360 degree tour, which kicks off this week
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NewsThe Grimdex: 7
Building’s seven-strong Gloomwatch panel rate their mood from 0-10, with 10 the most unhappy. The average is that month’s “Grimdex” forecast
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NewsOut of the ashes
Anglo-Irish construction group John Sisk has won a £30m contract to rebuild the Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare, which was wrecked by fire last year
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HCA loses green boss to Stoke
The head of environmental policy at the Homes and Communities Agency is leaving to take up a post at Stoke-on-Trent council
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Cabe survey reveals lack of space in London homes
Designers of privately developed homes in and around London are failing to provide enough space for residents, according to research by the government’s design watchdog
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Scrap council tax to end boom and bust, report urges
Property owners should be taxed on the value of their sites rather than the actual buildings, a think tank has said
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NewsForce of nature
This six-storey hotel is just one of the many buildings destroyed this week in Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot hit the country and the coastline of eastern China, killing at least 60 people
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Chelsea snubs Adam and Terry
Classicist architects Robert Adam and Quinlan Terry have been left off a longlist, unveiled this week, of masterplanners to design Qatari Diar’s Chelsea Barracks scheme in London
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Nuclear body presses forward with £15bn storage facility
The Nuclear Industry Association is seeking views on plans for a £15bn waste repository, signalling an escalation in efforts to tackle the problem of radioactive refuse in advance of the planned £40bn new-build programme
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NewsWebb site in development
Glenn Howells Architects’ 450-seat concert hall for the University of Birmingham has been given the go-ahead by university authorities
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Interserve profit up 19%
Support services and building group Interserve has posted a 4% rise in turnover from £913.6m to £951.2m for the six months to 30 June 2009