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FeaturesLibrary fines and other crimes: Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Addlestone town hall
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s £12.6m town hall in the Surrey town of Addlestone houses the council, public library and police station all under the same roof. Which means you’d better get your books back on time
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FeaturesSun, sea and sandcastles
The British seaside is back – after all, who wants to go abroad with summers like ours…? To celebrate, we challenged some of our finest construction minds (plus sundry offspring) to a giant sandcastle building showdown. Roxane McMeeken and Katie Puckett commentate on the action.
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Severfield-Rowen stays bullish
Steelwork contractor Severfield-Rowen has said its Olympics contracts will help it through the economic downturn.
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Weak US and Europe markets push CRH’s profit down
Pre-tax profit at Irish building materials firm CRH has fallen 10% on the back of a weak dollar and flagging markets in North America and Europe.
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NewsSharewatch — just time for a bit more august gloom …
Results from Persimmon, Bovis Homes and Taylor Wimpey over the past fortnight contained about as much sunshine for investors as the month of August.
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NewsHousing stats: New-build sales and completions in July 2008
This month’s data reveals that private registrations are down 57% on last year
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CommentLondon vs Beijing
For now the eyes of the world are filled by afterimages of Beijing, but they will shortly begin turning expectantly towards an area of waste ground in east London.
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FeaturesWho guards the guards?: Arson and intimidation in Glasgow
Some security firms in Scotland don’t bother with tenders when they bid for work. Instead they make an offer you find difficult to refuse, and if you do, they apply a bit of muscle. But why do the authorities let it happen?
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Back issues — fair competition rules and the accuracy of estimates
May 1858 Architectural designs
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FeaturesProcurement: Retail delivery
The successful fitting out of a major retail scheme owes a lot to effective retail delivery management. Simon Rawlinson and Nick Clare of Davis Langdon lift the lid on the processes involved
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NewsIci Paris: Jean Nouvel’s Horizons Tower
Jean Nouvel’s Horizons Tower in Paris has been given planning permission.
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Empty buildings tax blamed for business park slowdown
One of the UK’s largest developers of small business units has cut its development programme by more than 90% in response to the government’s decision to remove tax relief on empty business properties.
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Crossrail shortlists announced
Laing O’Rourke and Bechtel are on the shortlist to be the delivery partner for Crossrail, a role that could be worth up to £400m.
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HOK wins superlab
Architect HOK has won the design contract for the controversial £500m UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation in King’s Cross, London.
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Prisons slammed
Government plans to build three huge “Titan” jails have been slammed by a prisons watchdog.
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NewsA good grounding
This is the latest image of the 2012 Olympic stadium, which shows that work to create the foundations is nearly complete.
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Taylor Wimpey may turn to private equity despite bank rescue
Pete Redfern, chief executive of Taylor Wimpey, hasn’t ruled out selling a stake in the housebuilder to a private equity group.
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Energy industry body calls for rethink on green tax breaks
Trade body the Environmental Industries Commission is to call for changes to government incentives for greening buildings.
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99% Campaign returns online
Two years ago, Building started the 99% Campaign to urge the industry and government to make the UK’s existing building stock more energy efficient.