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NewsKeep crane register, campaigners tell HSE
Watchdog warned against abandoning safety measures brought in two years ago
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NewsGVA to find contractors for MoD's £300m Deepcut job
Ministry of Defence’s estate arm appoints property consultant to procure contractors for Deepcut barracks relocation
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FeaturesKisho Kurokawa's Maggie's Centre
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, ‘dragon-tailed’ cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK’s 13th Maggie’s Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
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CommentGovernment should be fixing its policy credibility rather than boasting about its fiscal credibility
The Government is beginning to more clearly recognise the urgency of getting construction back into growth
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CommentMel Starrs (1973-2012)
Building’s digital and audience director Phil Clark remembers Mel Starrs
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NewsGovernment delays ‘son of PFI’ announcement
Exclusive: Unveiling of £46bn financing package for construction marred by omission of PFI reform
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NewsIKEA neighbourhood wins planning
Retail giant’s property arm gains approval for ‘Strand East’ scheme
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NewsLandmark Brighton tower secures funding package
Council loan of £15m to see Marks Barfield Architects’ i360 start on site before year end
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NewsMel Starrs has died
Mel Starrs, a prominent champion of sustainability in the built environment, has died.
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NewsTurner & Townsend reports bumper results
Increased proportion of overseas work helps consultant boost revenue 20% and pre-tax profit 46%
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NewsInfrastructure work fails to pick up
RICS survey finds infrastructure workloads remained flat over Q2 despite government attempts to boost sector
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NewsOsborne launches £40bn infrastructure guarantee scheme
Government will also provide loans for stalled PFI schemes
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FeaturesSolving the panel puzzle
The Maggie’s Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical.
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FeaturesThe ‘cosmic whirlpool’ and other Maggie’s Centres
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment.
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NewsBids for Olympic stadium revealed
Football up against Formula One racing for a home at the Olympic park
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NewsDelancey in the frame for Olympic media centre
Legacy board to meet today to confirm appointment for broadcast centre role, with iCity data centre proposal sole remaining bidder