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NewsDutch master
Dutch practice Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects has completed this educational building for Metzo College in Doetinchem, Holland.
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HBOS to sell majority stake in McCarthy & Stone
HBOS is looking to sell most of its stake in retirement home specialist McCarthy & Stone just five months after buying it in a £1.1bn deal.
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Travis Perkins snaps up firm
Builders merchant Travis Perkins has bought insulation supplier Passmore Drywall & Insulation for £13.4m.
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Profit rises 16% at Welsh contractor Watkin Jones
Contractor Watkin Jones posted a 16% rise in pre-tax profit for the year ending 30 September 2006.
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Tata wins Corus takeover battle with £6.7bn bid
Tata Steel has come out top in the battle for UK steelmaker Corus after a four-month battle that culminated in an eight hour auction.
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‘You cannot have two chief executives’ – so Black quits Mears
Stuart Black faces a year on gardening leave after this week quitting his chief executive post at Mears, the £200m-turnover social housing contractor.
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Cost of Stansted extension cut by £500m
The Grimshaw-designed second runway and new terminal at Stansted airport will cost nearly £500m less than anticipated, according to BAA.
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FeaturesOut of the blue ... and into the red
A furious argument is brewing in the Treasury over a surprise change to accounting rules that could suddenly dump billions of pounds of PFI liabilities in the government’s lap. Mark Leftly looks at what the rule says, and what it could mean for Gordon Brown
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NewsAll change at Paddington
Schmidt Hammer Lassen (SHL), a leading Danish architect,has unveiled this much anticipated design of a £90m further education building in Paddington Green in west London, for the City of Westminster College.
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Think speakers confirmed
Tom Bloxham, head of Urban Splash will be be speaking at Think, a new sustainability and regeneration event.
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Three-quarters of population would buy new-build
The proportion of the public prepared to buy a new-build home has risen sharply since the end of the nineties, according to research by the estate agent Savills.
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NewsA big Ask in Urmston
Regeneration specialist Ask Developments has submitted detailed plans to revamp the rundown Urmston area of Greater Manchester.
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Appointments
HousebuildersAntler Homes Southern has appointed Duncan Morris and Paul Osborne as land directors. Morris was previously with Michael Shanly; Osborne joins from Gladedale Homes.Consultants project management consultant ChandlerKBS has promoted Dylan Davies and Chris Hunt from associate to partner, and Julian Kelly from senior cost manager to associate. Faithful + ...
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Prison contractors pressured to speed up work
Contractors have been asked to speed up work on the Prison Service’s building programme in the wake of heightened political pressure on the Home Office to deal with overcrowding in prisons.
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NewsThere's no PPE in paradise
It's a beautiful setting for a blunder - HSE inspectors don't visit many sites like this
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NewsBalfour Beatty buys US construction business for £184m
The UK contractor plans to build a significant operation in the US after buying Centex Construction
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NewsUK named third biggest illegal timber importer
Conservation group WWF accuses UK of importing 3.2m cubic metres a year costing £712m
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NewsAlfred McAlpine acquires Enviros for £30m
Support services business buys environmental consultant from management team
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NewsImage: Corus's friendly wave inspires Ito in Singapore
Japanese architect uses dramatic steel wave form in Singapore’s new harbour-front development VivoCity
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NewsLeighton chief eyes up Multiplex
Australian contractor would consider taking over Multiplex if the price was right says chief executive