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NewsA friend indeed
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard has designed London's latest scheme of single-person key-worker housing, which was opened this week by London mayor Ken Livingstone and the Countess of Wessex. Friendship House in Southwark is developed and run by the London Hostels Association and provides 180 bedsits with en-suite bathrooms. Achieving a ...
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Watchdog 'too quick to judge' Tube PPPs
A report assessing whether the London Underground PPP deals will work has been criticised for being written too early.
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RICS in talks over insurance
The RICS is seeking an alternative to a proposed move by the Financial Services Authority to regulate firms arranging insurance services in the property sector.
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Amec and Taywood head £250m Lewisham revamp
Lewisham council in south-east London has appointed a team headed by contractors Amec and Taylor Woodrow to bring about a £250m transformation of the town centre.
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Public rejects high-density living
The government's policy of promoting high-density urban living has been hit by research that reveals that 80% of the public would prefer not to live in apartments
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NewsOlympic first
The Faliro arena in Athens, designed by architect Sport Concepts in association with local architect TPA, is the first Olympic venue to be completed and opened. The 8000-seater indoor arena, which will host taekwondo and handball events, is one of the larger facilities constructed for the Olympics. After the games, ...
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Workers are happier and richer than last year
The construction industry has improved the way it treats workers in four areas this year, according to the 2004 key performance indicators.
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NewsBehemoth in steel and glass
Aukett's design for Building 1000, the £70m first phase of the Royals Business Park in London Docklands, has been completed. It was jointly developed by Development Securities, Standard Life Investments and the London Development Agency, and consists of two high-specification glass and steel buildings, totalling 22,000 m2. When complete, ...
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FeaturesSprint finish
Well, what were they worried about? Fifty days to go and it's all over bar smoothing the sand in the long jump pit. But how did the Greeks, and Santiago Calatrava, turn a near disaster into a national triumph? We went to Athens to find out
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Destined to lose?
Without a large injection of cash, London’s creaking transport system could lose it the right to hold the 2012 Olympics
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Pricey advice
This was a claim for professional negligence by a company incorporated to purchase a sea front hotel and adjacent land in Hunstanton, Norfolk, against the solicitors that acted for it on the purchase. The hotel had been purchased subject to three outstanding floating charges on the assets of the seller, ...
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NewsFormer NBA Quantum boss plans £100m start-up
David Ridley, ambitious chairman of dispute resolution specialist, leaves to set up support services group
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FeaturesStuck in the eighties?
Remember the decade that taste forgot? Dennis Lenard reckons that the construction industry never left it. We ask some key figures if the industry really is frozen in time
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FeaturesTravellin' man
Charlie Hughes of Smart Futures discusses air miles, broken backs, Saddam Hussein and sustainability with us.
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Something about Germany
Europe's economic engine is once again in gear, but any UK firms thinking of returning to the market need to know about some recent changes in the law
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Whitehall summit to tackle foreign worker exploitation
Unions and employers join forces to insist that government enforces wage parity with UK workers
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NewsJackson plans return to the fray
Outgoing Peterhouse chairman David Jackson aims to expand his portfolio of non-executive directorships after narrowly losing out in the battle to take control of the infrastructure group
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CommentDemons and angels
Claims mongerers are chasing ambulances in every walk of life. But adjudication shrived them of their sins in construction, and could be the answer elsewhere