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NewsFirst class honours
Faber Maunsell’s City Campus East for Northumbria University has scooped the new-build project prize at CIBSE’s Low Carbon Awards.
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Developers miss housing grant
Private developers are to receive just 3% of the government’s £3.3bn allocation of grant for affordable housing.
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BAA boss resigns
Stephen Nelson, chief executive at BAA, has resigned amid criticism over falling service standards.
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Casino rumpus
Howard Bernstein, chief executive at Manchester council, said the council “reserved the right” to sue the government over this week’s decision by Gordon Brown to ditch plans for a supercasino.
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Trillium may be sold
Land Securities has said it may sell its outsourcing Trillium business for a reported £1.5bn.
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NewsIt’s a bit pokey …
What Foster + Partners says is the world’s largest building has opened after four years of design and construction work.
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Training body raises apprenticeship grants by £1,000
ConstructionSkills is to give employers an extra £1,000 for each apprentice taken on.
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Former John Laing chair dies at 90
Sir Maurice Laing, former chair of contractor John Laing, has died aged 90.
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NewsBlack outlook
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has won outline planning consent for a 93,000m2 mixed-use apartment and hotel scheme in the Russian city of Sochi on the Black Sea coast for developer Parus.
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Skills shortages set to grow as Poles lured back by higher pay
Pay for site labour in Poland has risen by about 20% in the past year, a development that is likely to lure workers in the UK back to their native country. The pay for professional staff has risen by between 10% and 20%.
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NewsFit for purpose
Cambridge university’s department of architecture has spent £3m refurbishing its premises and developing a studio building alongside it.
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NewsGreat Ormond Street gets better
Planning permission for a revamped Great Ormond Street hospital, designed by Llewelyn Davies Yeang, has been given the go-ahead.
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Surveyors strike over pay
Staff at the Valuation Office Agency, which employs 1,000 surveyors, went on strike today after spurning an increased pay offer.
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Willmott wins
Willmott Dixon has taken its workload procured through the public sector framework to more than £100m with two pre-contract appointments in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and Bognor Regis, West Sussex.
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RLB in Birmingham
Naus Group has appointed Rider Levett Bucknall as QS on its £95m mixed-use scheme in Connaught Square, in the Digbeth area of Birmingham.
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Mining group fit-out
Overbury, the commercial office fit-out and refurbishment specialist, has completed a £13.5m office fit-out for the international mining group Rio Tinto at its UK offices in central London.
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NewsBye-bye, buy-to-let
It may be the end of the road for the amateur investor, but with the rental market still strong, housebuilders are trying to find new ways of appealing to serious backers.
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Stainless steel kitchen sink
Carron Phoenix has launched a new stainless steel sink called Zeta 100.
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Features
Top 45 surveyors websites: Measuring up
In the third of his series on construction industry websites, Martin Hornagold turns his attention to surveyors and again finds that they are failing basic tests