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O'Rourke calls for modern sites
Ray O'Rourke, the chairman of Laing O'Rourke, has called for the "grunt" to be taken out of construction by modernising working practices.
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BBC names three contractors on framework
The BBC has completed the line-up of its revamped framework by announcing the names of three contractors signed up for building works and services deals.
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NewsA lotta bottle
Architect HawkinsBrown has won planning permission for this redevelopment of the former Watney Mann brewery site in Stockwell, south London.
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Features
Projects update: Sustainability
With companies falling over themselves to introduce sustainable technology into their schemes, research into what's possible seems increasingly to be the name of the game
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CommentEvery little helps
There are a million tiny things that we can do to safeguard the future of our planet - so don't dismiss them just because you might not be around to care
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CommentWonders & blunders
Architecture critic Peter Murray draws a comparison between a bridge that ties London together and a street that splits it apart
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NewsPre-tax profit at contractor Mace rises 20% to £6.2m
Overall turnover in group also rises 48% to £271m but chairman complains that margins are ‘still very tight'
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Architect SMC makes biggest purchase yet
Architect SMC Group has made its biggest acquisition with the purchase of architecture and design company Charter Consultant Architects.
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NewsBarratt: Give us cheap land and we'll build green houses
David Pretty calls on the government to cut cost of its sites by 25% to pay for eco-friendly technologies in homes
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Density of London's new housing rises 50%
The density of new housing developments has risen by more than 50% in the past four years, breaking 100 dwellings per hectare in London for the first time, according to official figures.
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Hone joins exodus from English Partnerships
Dennis Hone, English Partnerships' chief operating officer, is quitting the organisation to join his old boss David Higgins at the Olympic Delivery Authority, barely a month after he was appointed.
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CommentWe're going as fast as we can
Green energy has come a long way since the 1970s. More accurately, it has travelled the 120 miles that separate the hills of Snowdonia and the Palace of Westminster.
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Firms hold crisis talks to save Procure 21 framework
Four of the 11 firms on the scheme have threatened to quit unless government cuts £170,000 membership fee
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NewsViñoly's light touch
An arts centre designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects for Colchester in Essex has won planning permission.
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UK looks to Finnish nuclear finance model
The UK could look to a private finance scheme being used in Finland as a model for funding a new wave of nuclear power stations
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‘Roof tax' areas could avoid planning gain supplement
The government is considering exempting "roof tax" areas from the planning gain supplement in an attempt to allay fears that developers might have to pay both.
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NewsRooms available
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai, has unveiled plans for the £100bn Bawadi complex - a 10 km strip of 31 hotels.
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NewsBAA gives England flags the red card at Terminal 5
Workers furious as BAA brands World Cup flags hazardous and distracting, and bans them from Heathrow site
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Deal struck over Wembley electrical works
Wembley contractor Multiplex and M&E firm Phoenix Electrical have struck a deal to complete crucial electrical works on the site, ending a pay row that had jeopardised the final stages of the project.