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NewsHBF reports skills cards success
More than 91% of workers employed by major housebuilders now carry CSCS cards
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NewsLFA hub highlights from King’s Cross
Highlights from the London Festival of Architecture's second week in King's Cross, Bloomsbury, Fitzrovia and Covent Garden
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NewsSuper-quango strikes deal with councils on housing targets
Protocol spells out funds and powers of Homes and Communities Agency
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News‘Creative’ Alsop designs may be used for Titan prisons
Controversial Stirling prize-winning architect working on preliminary “concepts” for mega-prisons
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CommentOnly yourselves to blame
Managers found guilty of causing death by a 'gross breach' of care are liable to criminal conviction, but the Corporate Manslaughter act is clear on how to avoid a prosecution
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FeaturesThe only way is up: China’s airport building programme
China will spend £44bn on airports in the next five years and there is plenty of opportunity for British firms to get in on the aviation action. Victoria Madine explains what it takes to break into the market
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NewsChinese contractor goes all out to meet global goals
African and Middle Eastern economies provide platform for China State Construction’s expansion
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NewsCorruption scandal delays Dongtan by two years
Arup’s eco-city for 500,000 people hit by corruption trial of Shanghai political boss who sponsored it
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FeaturesCauses of failure: Profiled sheeting
Corrugated steel sheets are more sophisticated than ever, and used in everything from schools and museums to hospitals. But Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans discovers things can go wrong
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NewsStace wins London dragon boat race
Construction firms brave stormy weather at the 10th London Dragon Boat Challenge and raise £21,000 for charity
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Plans to spend £4m transforming Cheapside
City of London to launch exhibition revealing 'environmental improvement' proposals
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NewsGovernment to buy up land to ensure housebuilding targets
Caroline Flint poised to react to housing slump with expansion of publicly funded land buying
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NewsHousing Design Awards: Quality good, quantity bad
Source: Tim Crocker / Design For Homes Source: Tim Crocker / Design For Homes Source: Tim Crocker / Design For Homes
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NewsHammerson’s head of development quits for Dubai
Jon Emery, Hammerson’s head of development in the UK, is to leave the company.
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NewsBouygues UK casts net wider for acquisitions
New boss Madani Sow looks at new sectors as the company makes finding right target a priority
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‘Creative’ Alsop designs may be used for Titan prisons
Controversial Stirling prize-winning architect working on preliminary “concepts” for mega-prisons
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Foreign Office closes in on New Street
Foreign Office Architects is close to securing the contract to provide concept designs for the £600m redevelopment of Birmingham New Street station, writes Dan Stewart.
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Councils pressed to protect workers from OFT fallout
Thousands of former council workers now employed by contractors could lose their jobs, warns union
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NewsGleeds bags Indian scheme
Deal for 80ha “dream lifestyle” gated community with developer Sahara could be first of many
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China: the tendering process
China’s fledgling tendering process has overcome many of its teething problems, but is still unsuited to large complicated projects. Here’s how it works