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CommentHansom: I second that emotion
This week, there’s panic on a government design framework, puzzlement over Zaha Hadid’s latest design and piqued curiosity as the wife of a sixties soul legend encounters a bearded Peter Murray
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CommentAn idea with wings
An expanded Heathrow can be built years before the alternatives - that’s years in which we can compete in the global race for trade, jobs and growth
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CommentForum is step in the right direction
With constructive debate, we can improve the prospects of the Green Deal
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CommentOrder of precedence
Construction contracts often contain a number of contradictory documents but a clause setting out which has priority is no substitute for clear and careful drafting
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NewsBalfour Beatty staff stave off office closure
Balfour Beatty will retain its Northampton office after staff fought off the contractor’s plans for its closure
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NewsWillmott and Keepmoat win place on Leeds retrofit job
Scheme is the forerunner to £100m city-region wide Green Deal scheme
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NewsGreenpeace protestors scale the Shard
Watch live: Six campaigners from Greenpeace are climbing up the facade of the Shard
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NewsTelford Homes reports ‘strong’ start to 2013
Firm targeting new development investment with £50m fund
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NewsKier confirms £115m Broadmoor job
Contractor has confirmed it is preferred bidder onrevamp of secure hospital
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NewsMorgan Sindall wins £269m Greenwich project
Morgan Sindall’s housing arm Lovell to build 1,500 homes over 13 years
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NewsCommercial development at highest since 2007
Savills index shows workloads rising faster than any time since the credit crunch
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NewsBalfour Beatty warns over half-year performance
Contractor says it will make up shortfall in second half of the year
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FeaturesScale Lane Bridge: Get into the swing
After years of axed regeneration projects, Hull is finally getting to have a bit of fun with a new pedestrian swing bridge
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FeaturesInfrastructure: Combined cycle gas turbine plants
Unless new electricity generating capacity is built soon there will be an energy security crisis in the UK. Barbra Carlisle and Paul Webber of EC Harris examine the role of gas in electricity generation
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NewsLend Lease development director prepares for exit
Exclusive: Lend Lease’s managing director of development Mark Dickinson is to leave the firm
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NewsMears pays by credit card to ensure ‘happy supply chain’
Exclusive: Social housing contractor paying a third of subcontractors by Barclaycard to speed up payment
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NewsRider Levett Bucknall wins first major African contract
UK firm and South African partner get quantity surveyor role on £160m Sasol head office job
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NewsGreen light for City hotel
Avery Associates Architects-designed mixed use hotel and office space given approval by City of London planners
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CommentThink small
At last this government has promised big sums for infrastructure but, says Stephen Beechey, opportunities will be missed if it can’t trust those at a local level to make any spending decisions