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NewsGleeson sells building arm in black month for contractors
Listed contractor quits sector following £16.6m losses, as Mowlem and Alfred McAlpine also suffer woes
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NewsPickett’s Lock stadium gets off the blocks
Architect David Morley has released images of designs for the £16m Lee Valley athletics centre at Pickett’s Lock, north-east London.
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NVQ students guaranteed work placements
Students completing National Vocational Qualification courses in construction will be guaranteed work placements in the industry, under a joint initiative between employers and training body CITB-ConstructionSkills
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Construction firms set to offer ‘Tesco law’ services
Construction firms are poised to take advantage of a government ruling that will allow them to offer legal advice as part of their service.
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Prescott’s out-of-town U-turn
The government has made a U-turn in policy by making it easier for developers to build out-of-town shopping centres.
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NewsReview of Construction Act to reform payment practices
Government consultation paper hailed as a ‘bold’ approach by industry leaders as it tackles contentious issues
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North-east roofing cartel exposed
Ten more roofing contractors have fallen foul of the drive to root out price-fixing in the construction industry
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Charity warns against ditching section 106
A leading social research charity has warned the government not to tamper with the section 106 system for affordable housing, in the light of Treasury economist Kate Barker’s proposal for a planning gain supplement.
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NewsSchool team’s dream
Architects Llewelyn Davies and Watkins Gray International, who joined forces last August to serve the growing PFI markets in health and education, have worked up designs for a PFI school at Blakesley in Birmingham.
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NewsWaterway winners
The Waterways Trust has announced the winners of this year’s Renaissance Awards, recognising best practice in waterway regeneration throughout Britain.
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Grimshaw plans tropical eco-centre for Merseyside
Eden Project architect to create rainforest in a giant glasshouse, dubbed ‘Kew in the North’, in St Helens
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ACE slams proposals for reverse auctions at TfL
The Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) last week met officials from Transport for London (TfL) to lobby against reverse auction bidding for framework agreements.
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UK firms set to work in Algeria
British construction companies are meeting the Algerian government in a bid to get involved in infrastructure projects planned as part of a $50bn (£26bn) economic recovery programme
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Architect Ralph Erskine dies aged 91
Ralph Erskine, one the 20th century’s greatest and most influential architects, has died at the age of 91 after a short illness.
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NewsGet higher, baby
Developer Ballymore has appointed Canary Wharf Contractors to its construction team for this 50-storey residential development at 1 Millharbour in London’s Docklands.
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Alfred McAlpine sues after paying £10m for company
Contractor claims former shareholders of Eastern Contracting Holdings duped it into paying double its value
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NewsPlans for £350m Suffolk winter sports resort put on ice
a £350m winter sports leisure resort outside Ipswich in Suffolk will go ahead, according to the developer, despite the fact that planning approval has been put back six months.
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VAT row erupts over refurbs
A row has broken out over the government’s refusal to abolish VAT on refurbishing buildings after it emerged that a London school demolished a sports hall to avoid paying the tax.
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Council architects take Whitehall to task on design
Local government architects have attacked the role played by central government in procurement and design in a pre-election document that has been sent to all three major parties.
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NewsMcChesney triumphs
Architect Ian McChesney, working in conjunction with landscape architect Fenella Griffin, has won a competition to design the Avenham Park Pavilion in Preston, Lancashire.