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NewsLight in a dark place
Architect Frederick Gibberd Partnership has recently completed a £13.5m mental health unit at Charing Cross Hospital for the West London Mental Health NHS Trust. A key design feature is the triple-height atrium that floods the new ground-floor cafe with natural light. The 88-bed unit includes a 16-bed intensive care ward, ...
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Laing O'Rourke in clear after T5 fraud inquiry
A supervisor at Laing O'Rourke's site at Heathrow Terminal 5 triggered a fraud investigation after he claimed that building materials had been booked in but not delivered.
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Cleveland Bridge set to axe 240 staff
Cleveland Bridge, the steelwork contractor that is working on the national stadium at Wembley, has announced that it may make up to 240 staff redundant.
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NewsDown a peg or nine
Ballymore Properties lopped nine storeys off the residential tower proposed for its Crossharbour site in London Docklands. Architect Skidmore Owings & Merrill's revised proposals now comprises 1047 apartments on 42 storeys, as well as restaurants, a health club, community facilities, offices, and a 225-room hotel. The revised proposals are the ...
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Berkeley pulls out of Oak Grove development
Housebuilder Berkeley Group has withdrawn from the six-strong shortlist for the Oak Grove Millennium Community scheme in Milton Keynes to concentrate on town-centre developments.
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HSE inspectors vote to strike over pay
Inspectors at the Health and Safety Executive, including its construction division, have voted in favour of industrial action over pay.
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NewsThe Tottenham tower
Architect Jestico + Whiles has obtained planning consent for this £7.3m apartment block in Haringey, north London. The scheme is intended to mark the southern gateway of the Haringey Heartlands development. The clients are London & Quadrant Housing Trust and Tower Homes, the contractor is Countryside in Partnership, structural consultant ...
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FeaturesWhat a difference a year has failed to make
Twelve months after John Prescott promised to kick-start Britain's biggest regeneration project in the Thames Gateway, visits three key areas and finds that few of the grand plans have left the drawing boards. Plus, the first of our regeneration jargon-busters
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CommentWhat are we here for?
A reader writes As QSs already have at least four professional bodies they can be members of, why do they need another? We explain what the QSi has to offer
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FeaturesAnd now from the BBC …
The Beeb asked Allies & Morrison to create a vast media village next door to another enormous office block at its bleak White City site – without creating the last word in urban alienation. We finds out what happened next, Adam Wilson collects the photographic evidence
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Wilcon boosts Taywood results
Housebuilder Taylor Woodrow has turned in a stronger set of annual figures than expected, helped by its acquisition of Wilson Connolly last year
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FeaturesAll together better
Willmott Dixon thought that a completely rational building process would be about 30% faster than a conventional one. So it tried out its ideas on a social housing development in west London. We found out what happened
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Record time
Following the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in 2001, JDM entered into a contract with DEFRA to construct burial sites and infrastructure works. Under the contract, JDM was to be paid a reasonable rate for such labour and materials as it provided. JDM produced timesheets to back up its ...
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Civil war in the clan McAlpine
The legal battle over the use of the McAlpine family name turn nasty in court this week, with Sir Robert's branch of the tree claiming that Alfred's "poor payment record" would reflect badly on the older firm
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FeaturesSiteseeing with the HSE
Site managers! Do you live in terror of a safety visit, no matter how innocent you are? And do you wish you knew what went on in those inspectors' heads? To unravel the mystery, we spent a day with the dark hero of health – Norman the HSE inspector.
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FeaturesDeconstructing sarah
Sarah Wigglesworth, rebel intellectual, fat architect and straw enthusiast, has just accepted an MBE, and is about to become something of a television star … we discuss postmodern irony with her
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The NEC: A user's guide
Changing a partnering contract isn't like changing a brand of cereal – but the contract writers could take a lesson in clear English from the back of the packet
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NewsScotland Yard questions Murphy staff in murder hunt
Frenzied stabbing of construction employee leaves police searching for clues as to the murderer's motive