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  • News

    Good day at the office

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    A Georgian warehouse that is being refurbished as low-carbon offices is to be opened to the public during this year’s Architecture Week.

  • News

    The Chinese rooms

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    This laboratory for the Chinese University in Hong Kong has been designed by architect RMJM.

  • Hansom
    Comment

    King Richard

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Introducing the all-conquering Lord Rogers of Riverside: Pritzker prize-winning architect, confidante to the rich and powerful and, of course, would-be sexologist

  • Features

    The shadow of suspicion

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    The Office of Fair Trading has reached the critical point of its probe into bid rigging in construction. Dan Stewart and Sarah Richardson look at what it has found, the effect on the industry – and how contractors are fighting back

  • Australian architects Denton Corker Marshall celebrate their new building
    Features

    The law machine

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Britain’s biggest court complex since the Royal Courts of Justice is opening in Manchester …

  • News

    The great indoors

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Make Architects has revealed this design for a private residence in western Newfoundland, off the east coast of Canada.

  • Tom Broughton
    Comment

    What more do we need to know?

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Many people have suspected that there was something a bit haphazard about the way companies handled tower cranes.

  • News

    Galliford Try steps up land acquisition programme

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Galliford Try has accelerated its acquisition of land after buying Linden Homes.

  • News

    Urban land increasing in value

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Urban land values are rising against a backdrop of stalling house prices.

  • News

    Kellys runway veto

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Ruth Kelly, the communities minister, has vetoed George Wimpey’s bid to build 1,900 homes near the new Gatwick airport runway route. Kelly rejected the appeal against Crawley council’s rejection of the plans.

  • News

    Clapham housing

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Berkeley First has won planning permission for 36 homes near Clapham Junction station in south London.

  • News

    Bellway’s 69 homes

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Bellway Homes has secured consent for for 69 homes in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, designed by Barton Willmore.

  • News

    Anglo-American tightlipped on Tarmac sale

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Materials company Anglo-American says it is reviewing its options over its Tarmac subsidiary, amid rumours of a £3bn auction .

  • News

    Groundworks arm

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Balfour Beatty has formed a specialist groundworks firm that will incorporate Stent and Pennine, its piling and ground engineering businesses.

  • News

    Caddick initiative

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Leeds developer Caddick Group has appointed Ian Hessey, the former boss of Persimmon Homes in Yorkshire, to head its residential division.

  • News

    Kier appointment

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Kier has made Chris Geoghegan a non-executive director.

  • News

    Norcros to list

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Products maker and distributor Norcros Group, which operates in the UK and South Africa, intends to list on the London stock exchange.

  • News

    Global sourcing

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    More than four out of five procurement professionals source supplies globally, according to the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.

  • News

    Sheppard man goes

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Richard Griffin, the partner in Sheppard Robson that led its health care section, has joined rival architect Llewelyn Davies Yeang as a director.

  • News

    Metronet mute on funding problems

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Metronet has remained silent on claims that creditors have refused to give it more money to renew the tube.