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FeaturesBattle of Waitrose
Nine weeks they lost to the dead. Nine weeks they struggled to bring to being the store, with quiche bedecked. What cunning? What buildcraft? Thomas Lane tells the tale.
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Milton Keynes developers put brakes on ‘roof tax'
The implementation of the Milton Keynes roof tax is being delayed because of uncertainty over the government's proposed planning gain supplement.
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RDAs seek Gateway tsar
The South-east's three regional development agencies are joining forces to appoint a chief executive to beef up their activities in the Thames Gateway.
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Mayor unites his Olympic designers
London mayor Ken Livingstone is to announce the formation of an organisation that will draw together all the design bodies at the Greater London Authority dealing with the Olympics
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Brazilian wins Pritzker
Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been awarded the 2006 Pritzker prize for his work in the city of São Paulo.
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HSE targets designers in drive to cut site accidents
The Health and Safety Executive is to look at how changes in the design process can reduce accidents on site.
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NewsHave we got mews for you …
HLM Architects residential development in Islington, north London, has recently been completed by the Aitch Group.
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Little Britain to support Paralympic sailing team
Britain's Paralympic sailing team is set to benefit from this autumn's Little Britain Challenge Cup, the annual construction industry sailing contest.
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London tower architect named
The architect of developer Great Portland Estates' 12-storey office building on London's South Bank has been revealed as Allford Hall Monaghan Morris.
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Consultants abandon ‘unreliable' Part L software
Architects and engineers switch to costly long-hand methods after giving up on BRE's compliance program
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Max Fordham defends first zero-carbon scheme
Environmental consultant Max Fordham has hit back after reports in the press that it criticised the performance of the first ever commercial zero-carbon development.
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Hollandia cuts secret Wembley deal
Wembley steelwork contractor Hollandia is understood to have made a secret agreement with Multiplex that it will complete its main work on the project by the end of the month, write the Building newsdesk.
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NewsHe's back …
Wakefield council has backed this design by SMC Alsop for The Orangery, a grade II*-listed building in Wakefield.
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Amec snaps up French nuclear engineering firm
Amec, the project management and services company, has bought French nuclear engineering company ATM Enterprise for *20.5m (£14.2m).
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Russia offers rebuild boom
Top UK firms have been approached to undertake billions of pounds of rebuilding work in Russia.
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NewsLemley to hire crack team to troubleshoot Olympic projects
Olympics to get standing dispute resolution board and to run schemes using NEC partnering contract
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Metronet plans Canary Wharf-Aldgate Tube link
Tube operator Metronet is to enter talks with London Underground over plans to provide a Tube link between Aldgate station on the Circle and Metropolitan lines and Canary Wharf station on the Jubilee Line.
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Employment tribunal to probe M&E blacklists
An employment tribunal on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project has been asked to consider allegations of blacklisting in the electrical sector.
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CommentThe rules of the Games
Back in February, Jack Lemley, the new chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority, waltzed into a room full of lawyers after two months in the job and set out his stall: disputes on Olympic construction projects will be dealt with during the construction process and not after it.
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NewsCBI to set up PFI lobby group for members
The CBI is setting up a PFI lobby group, to be headed by John Pilkington of support services group Amey