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CABE and MCG team up to cut hospital PFI design bills
Old adversaries join forces to standardise PFI design reviews and help reduce contractors’ bid costs
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Roofer blew whistle on cartel ‘after blackmail threat’
Roofing firm Briggs exposed the illicit cartel it was involved in to OFT after being blackmailed over its activities
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NewsCrystalline tower
Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron has designed a crystalline tower clad in irregularly textured aluminium mesh as the centrepiece of this art centre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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NewsWelcoming wards
A £60m children’s hospital, designed by Hopkins Architects and billed as “a hospital that does not feel like a hospital”, is due to open this autumn across the River Thames from the Palace of Westminster.
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High-gloss paint to be banned by 2010
Decorators are to be banned from using high-gloss paint on houses and buildings from 2010 under a European Union directive to cut pollution
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Industry backs migrant worker induction scheme
Industry groups and the Home Office this week backed proposals for a compulsory integration programme for migrant workers in the UK construction industry.
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Jarvis on ‘rough ride’ line
Support services firm Jarvis has taken over renewal work on the West Coast Main Line between London and Glasgow after contractor Mowlem was banned from rail renewal projects this week.
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All change for construction in Blair’s latest reshuffle
Alun Michael expected to be given construction portfolio in new Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry
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NewsLibeskind rethinks design of 9/11 tall tower
Nina Liebskind, the wife and business partner of Daniel Libeskind, the architect designing the replacement for the twin towers in New York, has admitted the building could be delayed by up to eight months because of design changes to improve security.
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NewsScissor sister
Zaha Hadid has provided a new nerve centre for BMW’s giant plant in Leipzig, central Germany.
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Industry acts after training record is blasted
The Major Contractors Group and CITB-ConstructionSkills are to pilot a scheme to guarantee apprenticeships for construction students, as a hard-hitting report criticises the industry’s training record this week
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US architect takes Rogers’ place in Paddington Basin
The development consortium behind Paddington Basin has brought in a US architect after dropping Richard Rogers’ designs for the Grand Union site.
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Sustainable building college
A specialist university offering courses in sustainable building is to be established in the East Midlands.
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NewsTroubled Bath Spa to stay closed for another year
Project manager Capita Symonds set to complete repairs by next Easter after taking over from Mowlem
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Pensions Act threatens firms with bankruptcy
Construction firms face heavy financial losses as the result of a section in last month’s Pensions Act that commits them to retrospective payments, industry experts have warned.
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NewsGreen as a Red Kite
Contractor Moss Construction has just completed work on the headquarters of the Environment Agency in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
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RIBA lobbies hard for top-up tuition fee exemptions
Architectural body fears that charges for five-year degree will freeze out all but the affluent from the profession
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Prince decides to humour ‘carbuncle’ community
Prince Charles is set to break with tradition by allowing modernist buildings on to a development near Plymouth.
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NewsTiton profits fall 1.6% as UK sales fall
Window and ventilation specialist feels the cool wind of a slowing market.