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    Feather in the cap

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    Architect Featherstone Young has recently completed the £900,000 refurbishment and fit-out for communications agency Wieden+Kennedy

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    Insurers to review timber-frame safety as claims soar 16%

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    The insurance industry has said it will launch a probe into the safety of timber-framed buildings, as concern grows over the cost of fire-related claims

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    Churchill’s HQ: Portsmouth community centre

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    Portsmouth council has released this concept design for a landmark community centre.

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    Contractors face green tax crackdown

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Contractors may have to pay millions of pounds in back tax after it emerged that HM Revenue & Customs is clamping down on projects thought exempt from the aggregates levy

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    Whitbread plans eco hotel

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    Whitbread, the owner of the Premier Inn chain, has announced that it will green its entire stock of hotels and build a low carbon hotel

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    Head to head: Copenhagen

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    Targets vs flexibility - Both sides of the eco debate agree that uncertainty is the main threat to UK plc. But their solutions are very different

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    NHS cuts Procure 21+ in half

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    The NHS has halved the number of places on its Procure 21+ framework after dramatically scaling down the amount of work expected to flow through it

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    Stalled Foster hotel close to sale

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Foster + Partners troubled Silken hotel in London is expected to be sold before Christmas, according to sources close to the situation

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    Kingdom coming

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Construction of the third of four phases of The Avenues, Kuwait’s largest shopping centre, got under way last month

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    Latest construction appointments - 11 December 2009

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    Glovers Project Services has named Alan Whiting associate director and Andrew Field business development manager

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    McLaren wins first deal on Royal Mail’s £300m framework

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    McLaren Construction has won the first contract under the Royal Mail’s £300m framework deal

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    Humphrey’s house

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    This masterplan by Bennetts Associates is intended to turn the area around Manchester’s Piccadilly station into a civil service campus

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    Berkeley goes to market

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Berkeley Group has said there is an “increased number of land opportunities” coming to market

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    Carillion sells equity stakes

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Carillion has sold equity stakes in two PPP projects to investment group Innisfree for £86.9m and said it expects to be in a net cash position by the end of the year

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    Askew to leave Taylor Wimpey

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Norman Askew, chairman of Taylor Wimpey, has said he will leave the housebuilder by the end of 2010

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    ISG bullish about London

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Fit-out specialist ISG predicted an upturn in the London fit-out market for 2010 in a trading update last week

  • Comment

    Hansom: Dangerous liaisons

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Construction has come over all drama and intrigue, it seems. We therefore invite you, ladies and gentlemen, to a cloak and dagger meeting, a masked party and a duelling lesson. Don’t forget your wigs

  • Comment

    Should we blame the big boys?

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    On 13 November you published an article by Richard Steer complaining about uneconomic bidding by QSs

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    Or blame all QSs?

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest the article in which Richard Steer was having a whinge about how the prevalence of low bidding was having a dramatic impact upon levels of professional QS fees

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    Where does it all end?

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Stephen Blake, director of the Office of Fair Trading (23 October, page 30) has drawn attention to the illegality of one bidder obtaining a price from another