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Barr to work on 2012 basketball arena
Scottish contractor Barr Construction has won a contract to work on the 2012 basketball arena
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NewsVillage people: 2012 athletes' housing
The team behind the 2012 athletes’ village unveiled these images of the scheme on Tuesday
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Land Secs seeks bids for £240m of stalled London projects
One of the industry’s biggest clients is talking to contractors about re-starting three major London schemes
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Slump in SME sector eases but green shoots are hard to find
Workloads in the SME building sector continued to slide in the second quarter of 2009, the latest state of trades survey by the Federation of Master Builders has revealed
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Architects show confidence in rising workload
Architects’ confidence in the private housing and commercial sectors is beginning to return, according to a RIBA survey
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Eleven win £500m regional framework
Eleven contractors have won a place on a massive regional framework scheduled to provide up to £500m of work in the next four years
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The Grimdex: 5.9
Building’s seven-strong Gloomwatch panel was formed to take the temperature of the ailing construction industry
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NewsUp Mexico way: Rogers' 221m tower
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has been commissioned to design a 221m tower for bank BBVA Bancomer in Mexico City
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NewsEnglish Heritage attacks Part L proposals
Heritage body set to oppose plans to bring historic buildings up to modern energy efficiency standards when refurbished
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FeaturesInternational salary guide 2009: Where in the world is the best pay?
As the recession turns sought-after consultants into international jobseekers, where can you go for some relief? Roxane McMeeken met one victim of the cuts, and Hays Construction tallied average pay packets from across the globe
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CommentLost in Translation
Designers can have 10 great ideas before breakfast, but if they can’t find ways of making the bureaucracies that run our world understand them, they’re doomed
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NewsFison rings changes as Osborne makes £334m
David Fison, chief executive of Osborne, has overhauled the company’s structure since taking over as chief executive in January, writes Roxane McMeeken
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Keltbray spreads risk as spending spree climbs to £10m
Groundworks and demolition specialist Keltbray has bought piling company Cain White
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NewsPersimmon scents upturn
Persimmon has said it will start work on 50 sites by the end of 2009 in a cautiously optimistic trading update this week
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Willmott Dixon posts 18% rise in profit but looks to diversify
Willmott Dixon has boosted turnover by 43% from £413.5m to £592.4m in 2008
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Don’t get the wrong idea
I enjoyed the interview with Steven Morgan of BAA (26 June, page 26), but it was easy to misinterpret what he had to say about frameworks and collaborative working
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Good riddance
It was striking to see the large number of articles and letters in last week’s edition (26 June) fretting about, and even anticipating, the demise of partnering and frameworks and the return of dreaded competitive tendering
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Find the combination
Looking behind the headlines (26 June, page 26), I wonder if BAA is really looking to “ditch” frameworks or to question how and where they are used and to what effect?
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CommentWhat would Aristotle do?
What a relief to read Steven Morgan’s views on procurement at BAA (26 June, page 26).
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Get it sorted
My small practice recently lost out because we didn’t “fit the selection criteria”. This was despite the fact that we had worked on about a third of the client’s properties and had performed to everyone’s satisfaction