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City Lofts to reinvest £7m windfall
Yorkshire-based mixed-use developer City Lofts is to invest the £7m it raised from going public on the alternative investment market last month in four developments.
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Old-fashioned fun
My, isn't Edinburgh beautiful? It just goes to show, there's nothing wrong with revivalism and pastiche – after all, architecture used to be playful
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FeaturesWhat's in store?
Herzog & de Meuron were so bent on a particular look for an artistic warehouse-cum-showroom, they were prepared to go to any lengths to achieve it …
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A matter of honours
It is little wonder that there were just nine architects, and precisely nobody from construction, among the 300 refuseniks revealed in the Sunday Times to have turned down a New Year's honour.
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Double jeopardy
If a contractor goes bust, a client can keep work on course by paying the subbie directly. But principles of insolvency law must be observed or they could shell out twice
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Guilt-free lawyer-lite
Taken a vow of abstinence? Girding yourself for the rigours of rapid detox? The lawyers among you should turn your attention some to some proper resolutions
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Foreign workers? Not a problem
Re: your article about protests against cheap foreign labour (News, 5 December, page 13).
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Superwoman speaks
I am a regular reader of your award-winning magazine and I have been a contributor before on race discrimination issues.
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Can you help stop CSCS fraud?
I read with interest your Leader article which referred to the availability of fake Construction Skills Certification Scheme cards (28 November, page 3).
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NewsTower power
Architect David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, masterplanner Daniel Libeskind and developer Larry Silverstein have unveiled the design of the Freedom Tower, the first and tallest building planned for the 16-acre site of the World Trade Centre. Soaring 1776 ft into the Lower Manhattan skyline, the tower will ...
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Mott MacDonald promotes senior figure to chairman
Multidisciplinary consultant Mott MacDonald has appointed Mike Blackburn chairman, following the retirement of Tim Thirlwall.
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Steel firm fined £15,000
Steel contractor Cleveland Bridge has been fined £15,000 after a staircase collapsed on a scheme in Canary Wharf, narrowly missing some site workers.
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G&T to probe Holyrood – again
Quantity surveyor Gardiner & Theobald has been called up by the Scottish parliament's spending watchdog to help write a report on the troubled £400m Holyrood project, on which rival Davis Langdon & Everest is cost consultant
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Housebuilders face £37m water valve bill
Housebuilders could have to spend £37m to fit hot water safety devices in new and converted homes from 2006.
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Bouygues learns valuable lesson
French contractor Bouygues and Architecture PLB are this month due to clinch financial close on a 25-year PFI contract for two secondary schools in Barking, east London. It will be the first British school PFI project for Bouygues, which has a track record in healthcare PFI, and for Architecture PLB's ...
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NewsBeeb's quay note
BBC Scotland has submitted a planning application for a headquarters at Pacific Quay on the south bank of the Clyde. The David Chipperfield-designed building includes public spaces and amenities aimed at making the BBC more accessible to visitors. The HQ, which is due for completion by 2007, would be digitally ...
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Stanhope faces Croydon threat
Croydon council has urged developer Stanhope to include plans for an arena on its £400m Croydon Gateway project – or risk losing its land to compulsory purchase order powers
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Contractors 'must monitor insurers' practice'
The Construction Confederation has called for contractors to ensure that providers of employers' liability cover stick to the guidelines set by insurance bodies.