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NewsPyramid of peace
A 21st-century reinterpretation of an ancient Egyptian pyramid by Foster and Partners opened this week in Kazakhstan.
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HBOS wins battle for McCarthy & Stone
The three-month battle to buy retirement homes specialist McCarthy & Stone appears to be over with the Permira and Barclays bid vehicle declining to raise its 1030p per share offer, paving the way for the HBOS-led consortium.
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Strong sales at Kingspan
Pre-tax profit at Irish building materials group Kingspan rose 33.7% to £83.4m after strong sales at its European operations.
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Savills reports 56% rise in first-half pre-tax profit
A buoyant UK residential property market helped property services company Savills report a 56% increase in interim pre-tax profit
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Foster, Rogers and Maki reveal Ground Zero towers
Norman Foster and Richard Rogers were yesterday expected to reveal their designs for towers at the site of the former World Trade Centre in New York.
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Shareholders instruct their lawyers to quiz Interserve
Lawyers for shareholders in Interserve, the troubled support services group, have sent the company’s board a letter asking for more information on the accounting irregularities that caused its share price to tumble.
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Bovis in 13k injury payout
Contractor Bovis Lend Lease has been forced to pay out a total of £12,632 after one of its subcontractors sustained an injury on a site in Leeds.
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NewsBring a skateboard
Make Architects has unveiled this design for the Khabary City project in Kuwait.
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NewsPeel's Mersey beat
Developer Peel Holdings this week revealed plans for a £4.5bn waterside scheme to regenerate Birkenhead Docks on the Wirral peninsula.
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FeaturesThats The Way
Martin Spring reports from The Way, Lovell’s vast, highly sustainable and distinctly eye-catching panellised housing project for New East Manchester
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FeaturesWhat to specify: flooring
Specifiers hunting for flooring systems that improve the acoustic performance of buildings,insulation systems that don’t require purlins and environmentally-friendly timber homes need look no further
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FeaturesWhat to remember: £60,000 homes
A new government report has examined the lessons learned so far from the £60,000 housing competition. Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg considers the implications for specifiers
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FeaturesH+H Celcon: Not so set in their ways
Danish-born, Kent-based H+H Celcon is a £70m-turnover concrete manufacturer that specialises in aircrete blocks but has now launched a structural housing system.
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NewsWWF targets non-listed housebuilders
The WWF is widening its eco-league table of housebuilders to embrace the top non-listed developers.
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Nottingham planners set to loosen green belt
East Midlands planners have outlined proposals to cater to Nottingham’s growing housing demand by relaxing the city’s green belt. The East Midlands assembly’s draft regional spatial strategy, presented to the body’s planning board this week, contains the outcome of a strategic review of the green belt separating Derby, Leicester and ...
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NewsMerseys modern methods
Lovell and PRP Architects have won planning permission for a £20m sustainable housing scheme in the Kensington area of Liverpool.
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NewsFosters and Rogers reveal Ground Zero towers
The designs by the British architects will fill two of the plots on Daniel Liebskind's masterplan for the World Trade Centre
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NewsProfit leaps 19% at Galliford Try
Contractor's results driven by strong performance from housebuilding division and acquisitions.
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NewsDouble victory for Brits in Singapore
Two UK design teams win a prestigious competition to design two gardens in downtown Singapore
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