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Carillion off-loads French business for £10m
Carillion has made its last major disposal as part of its restructuring plan, with the sale of a French civil engineering and building business.
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FeaturesWhere next for Britain’s biggest architect?
Peter Drummond, the new chief of Building Design Partnership, is looking for another £35m of business …
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CommentGive us our money back
Colin Harding The government’s Pensions Bill is proof that it is waging a war against small employers. It is time to take our savings out of the Treasury’s hands
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FeaturesThe case of the dancing hotel
For a budget flophouse, the Cambridge Travelodge looked like a cool and classy piece of work. But then Gus Alexander found out what happened when the lights went down …
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FeaturesRichard Simmons
The new chief executive of CABE tells Mark Leftly why his last three projects ran into criticism, why Sir Stuart Lipton was right to resign – and why Jon Rouse is such an easy act to follow.
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FeaturesTerror and wonder
… was the creed of Nicholas Hawksmoor. With the restoration of Christ Church these emotions can be experienced first hand.
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CommentSeduced by simplicity
Last week Ashley Pigott used the Holyrood fiasco to take a pop at construction management – but easy targets don’t help us understand complex problems
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Competitive streak
James Foster Under pressure from the EU, the government has reclassified registered social landlords as public bodies. The ramifications for procurement are far-reaching
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CommentIsn’t it obvious?
You may not be entirely surprised to learn that when it comes to construction law the most obvious meaning of a word isn’t necessarily the right one. Context is all
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NewsKlein to help write Tory manifesto
The Conservative party has called in Rudi Klein, a barrister specialising in subcontractors’ rights and a regular Building columnist, to draft a construction policy for its election manifesto.
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Planners told to prepare for old age
A report by the Royal Town Planning Institute is calling for “lifetime neighbourhoods” to be created to cater for the needs of the country’s ageing population.
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NewsChalk up another
This design by Building Design Partnership has just been chosen for Leigh city academy in Dartford, Kent. Of the 36 city academies currently in development, the practice has won six – second only to Foster and Partners. The government aims to establish at least 53 academies by 2007 and 200 ...
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NewsPCKO comes out on top in townhouse design contest
Architect’s versatile solution wins David Wilson Homes’ eScape competition – and will soon be built in Kent
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FeaturesThe new master
One of the many problems besetting the government’s plan to refurbish or replace every secondary school in Britain has been that nobody was permanently in charge of it. Now that that’s about to change, can we expect the work to start flowing?
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FeaturesCurtains for PFI
7:84 is an angry agitprop theatre company from Glasgow whose latest production puts private finance under the spotlight. Building invited some PFI bigwigs to join the audience – and play their parts in the ensuing debate. George Hay ducked the rotten tomatoes.
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FeaturesShip in a bubble
The Cutty Sark has been decaying in a dry dock at Greenwich for 50 years. But now architect Grimshaw has designed a cocoon to protect the record-breaking clipper during restoration.
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CommentWonders & blunders
A civilised street with space for everything turns into an eyesore that should have no place on this small planet, says Bill Bryson