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Prefabricated embassy goes up in Iraq
British embassy staff in Iraq are to be given a new home made from flat-pack lightweight materials. Work began three weeks ago and is due to be completed in September.
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Six sign £300m council framework
Balfour Beatty and Wates are among six contractors that have signed a £300m framework agreement with Hampshire council to provide high-value construction work
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Scaffolders cut cheap insurance deal
The National Access and Scaffolding Confederation has negotiated an insurance deal with broker the Benfield Group.
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NewsLord Liverpool
Work has begun on the £2.2m extension to the University of Liverpool sports centre, designed by architect Austin-Smith:Lord. The extension includes a 360 m2 fitness suite and a four-court sports hall with a main entrance and reception area. The extension will be enclosed by a catenary roof structure. The project ...
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NewsHail Mary
A £1.3m refurbishment of the grade II*-listed St Mary's church in Ealing, west London, was completed last month. The aim was to recreate the church's appearance after it was remodelled by Victorian architect SS Teulon. He gave it Moorish arches in striped brickwork, a cast-iron column decorated with ...
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Prescott faces challenge to greenfield housing policy
Crucial battle in offing over Essex council's proposed cancellation of planned residential development.
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Six line up for mother of all garden makeovers
Six international landscape architects this week unveiled designs for the £2m restyling of the Pirelli Gardens at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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NewsRIBA calls for role in listing process
The RIBA has asked the government to allow it to play a part in the listing of modern buildings
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NewsSearch on for executives to oversee Thames Gateway
Chairs for two key urban development corporations to receive £45,000 each for two-day week.
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NewsGehry tipped to win Hove leisure centre
A scheme by the Canadian architect Frank Gehry looks increasingly likely to win the contract to redevelop the King Alfred Leisure Centre in Hove.
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CPS to review bridge case
The Crown Prosecution Service is to consider whether to prosecute directors of the contractors involved in the Avonmouth bridge collapse in 1999, in which four workers died.
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MoD shortlists three for South-east prime contract
Defence Estates has shortlisted three consortiums for the Ministry of Defence's £460m regional prime contract for the South-east.
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NewsYou've not seen owt like it
Alsop Architects vision of the deprived Yorkshire town of Barnsley rebranded as a surreal Tuscan hill village has taken shape with the release of these possible designs.
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Contractors face attack from pirate radio gangs
Rooftop guards may be used to protect staff hired to confiscate transmitters from pirate DJs in tower blocks.
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FeaturesScourge of the skyline
Pirate broadcasters are thugs with links to drug gangs who hijack the airwaves with illegal antennas on high-rise roofs. We report on the violent struggle between them and the contractors hired to take them off the air
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NewsWates launches drive to double housing business
Contractor aims to use prefabrication methods to raise residential sales from £50m to £100m by 2008.
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Asite still in red but Egan remains bullish
Construction IT provider Asite has yet to make a profit, two years after being floated on the alternative investment market.
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NewsDirectors under fire as pay doubles in eight years
Highest earners on the defensive as Building survey reveals widening gap between top brass and workers.
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Abbey's £34m profit defies cooling market
Listed UK-Irish housebuilder Abbey has announced a pre-tax profit of £34m* for the 12 months to 30 April, up from £26m the previous year.