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NewsF+A buys airports QS for £1m
Franklin + Andrews, Mott MacDonald’s quantity surveying arm, has bought QS Needlemans for an estimated £1m in shares.
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NewsZaha Hadid’s first project in England is scrapped
Land Securities pulls £5m Architecture Foundation HQ after contractors fail to agree a price
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NewsMore specialists face the axe amid insolvency fears
Subcontractors furious as Costain, Wates and Morgan Ashurst cut supplier lists
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NewsWeekly Green Gauge Feb 15th
Some of the frutiest stories on the web this week were our bitter Valentine, up to the ears with Charles and the most complicated sustainable transport project since Boston's Big Dig.
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NewsForest Hill crane wreckage removed
Collapsed crane will be taken to the Health and Safety Laboratory in Buxton for testing
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NewsPrime green
Here is a sneak preview of HTA Architects’ design for housebuilder Barratt’s zero-carbon housing development in Britain at Hanham Hall near Bristol.
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McDonough spells out plan for Greater Carillion
As the £554m takeover of Alfred McAlpine is finalised and its top management tier resigns, Carillion’s boss tells Building what happens now
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NewsSocial housing plans face a £2.5bn shortfall
Pricewaterhouse Coopers says funding has failed to keep pace with development targets
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NewsAngel of the North marks birthday with spectacular light show
Antony Gormley is illuminated for the first time in years to celebrate its 10th anniversary
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NewsNow audit office to probe BSF
Parliament’s spending watchdog is to carry out an investigation into the £45bn Building Schools for the Future programme.
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NewsPinnacle contractor admits delays
Demolition on the site of the 300m Pinnacle tower in the City has been delayed by at least two months amid continuing legal wranglings.The work by subcontractor Keltbray was due to end in February, but will now continue while enabling works, which have also been put back, begin in April. ...
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Roll-out of apprentice scheme gets under way
At least 10 big projects, including £311m PFI hospital and £250m Tyne tunnel, pencilled in
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NewsSo what if it’s raining?
Housebuilders need to look beyond the dismal economic weather and make arrangements for the future if they are to deliver 3 million zero-carbon, cost-effective homes by 2020.
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NewsOne of Gaudí’s little jokes …
Thanks to Keith Fuell who took this photo of a worker at the great architect’s Casa Casa Batlló in Barcelona.
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Skanska profit hit by problem jobs
Skanska will change its risk policy in the UK after three problematic PFI projects hit its bottom line in 2007.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for London Projects, Bovis Lend Lease
“What’s the only football team in the country whose name you can’t colour in?” asks ops director Simon. We ponder this for a while. “In either upper or lower case,” he adds helpfully.
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NewsThe housebuilder’s plan McCarthy & Stone
In the first of a series of company profiles, Jon Neale opens the door on the UK’s biggest retirement homes specialist