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Muse wins £300m Doncaster contract
Morgan Sindall's development arm will build a civic and cultural quarter in the Yorkshire town
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NewsSavills sues developer for £200k of unpaid valuations
Chartered surveyor heads for High Court to claim fees and interest from mixed-use firm Oracle
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NewsMasdar project team faces fee cuts in bid to save £3bn
Developer of £16bn Abu Dhabi sustainable city renegotiates consultants and contractors’ contracts
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FeaturesSteel security
Steelway Brickhouse has enhanced its range of access covers and security products with the Bridor range of double-skinned steel security doors
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NewsTakeover puts Devereux into architects' top 20
Devereux Architects has bought north-east England firm Dewjo’c, creating a £16m-turnover firm with more than 250 employees
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NewsManchester rail project 'could boost economy by £16bn'
Think-tank report describes Manchester hub plan as vital to meeting 40% growth in demand by 2020
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NewsCurrie & Brown cuts quarter of Middle East staff
Currie & Brown has slashed staff numbers in the Middle East by a quarter in the past seven months
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NewsHousing starts rise for the first time in two years
Starts on site increase 2% in the first quarter, as social build outstrips private starts in March
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NewsLow demand hits training courses
Training providers have become the latest group to be hit by the downturn, with the CIRIA one of several bodies cutting programmes sharply
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Comment
Construction collapse was faster than first thought, say ONS statisticians
Construction output fell a further 2.4% in the first quarter of this year, according to estimates plugged into the official data used to calculate the UK gross domestic product.The figures for total output of the UK economy in the first quarter show a disturbing fall of 1.9%, with construction a ...
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NewsKeeping those skills up
David Leer snapped these jolly chaps from the Gleeds office window in London. Eight storeys up. Perhaps, in the light of recent redundancies, they are retraining for a career in the circus
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Comment
It's an ill wind...
There will be some positive outcomes from this global recession. The office market is a case in point and I believe that the economic climate will lead, and is already leading, to higher quality, better functioning buildings
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Comment
Just plane wrong
It’s easy to portray Tamsin Omond as childish (27 March, page 42), but setting her against an ageing politician (whose age I noted wasn’t published) just doesn’t work
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The noble game
I am fixture secretary for Peper Harow Cricket Club, and we are desperately trying to raise funds to complete phase two of our pavilion
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Correction
Due to a production error, the photographs of Andy Ritchie, global board director of Ryder Levett Bucknall, and Phil Dalglish, Saudi Arabia director for Buro Happold, were inadvertently transposed in the article “Make a wish” (9 April)
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CommentHansom: Bitter pills
There’s been much that’s hard to swallow of late in the world of construction, whether it be workers standing idle, a critic’s harsh words, a questionable quiz defeat or a whole sheep’s head
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FeaturesGareth Darbyshire: the £20m 20-year-old
While most students rough it, Gareth Darbyshire prefers to swank it up at Claridge’s. But then, between lectures, he does run his own £20m-turnover contracting company. Not bad for someone who just turned 20
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CommentHuman beans
Our percentage fee culture treats architects and engineers like commodities and actually pays them less the better their designs work. Time for a rethink
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CommentWonders & blunders
Erica Wagner chooses two avant-garde icons for us, one of them a triumph of American engineering, the other an Anglo-Italian blemish on the Beaubourg
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CommentIs the housing market turning?
This is, of course, the question that everybody wants to know the answer to. So let’s put all the evidence together and work out what it tells us...