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  • News

    Mouchel tipped to win £500m Tube deal

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Support services group Mouchel and French telecoms giant Alcatel are set to win a £500m signalling contract on London Underground – the biggest single project planned by the Tube Lines consortium.

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    Housebuilders spared sound tests

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders may not have to test the acoustic insulation of homes to prove they comply with Part E of the Building Regulations, provided they use approved construction methods.

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    Holyrood: 300 design changes in July point to even more delays to come

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    The deadline for the Scottish parliament has been put back six months – but the indications are that it may slide further yet.

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    Gehry says first UK project is better than Guggenheim

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Maggie's Dundee cancer therapy centre packs punch of Bilbao into building the size of a large bungalow.

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    Paint to blame for latest Bath Spa delay

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    IT WAS CONFIRMED this week that a defective paint finish is the cause of the latest delay to the £23m Bath Spa project. The problem affects all four pool basins in the troubled Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners scheme.

  • Comment

    Worse yet

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    The smouldering row over the Scottish parliament has roared back into life after our disclosure that it won't be finished until July next year, eight months after the previous deadline. This further delay will lift the cost of the project to about £400m – either 10 times, four times, or ...

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    Elevation

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Dublin practices Craig Henry Architects and Burdon Dunne Architects have won a competition to design a tower that will include a studio for rock group U2. The scheme, for Dublin Docklands Development Authority, is situated at Britain Quay and will include shops, restaurants, bars and offices. More than 500 entries ...

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    Bennetts wins contest for £50m research facility

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Architect Bennetts Associates has beaten off competition from Foster and Partners, Building Design Partnership and RMJM Architects, to be preferred bidder for a research facility at the University of Edinburgh.

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    Teams vie for asylum centre

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Interserve and Skanska are leading rival consortiums in a race to win the contract for a controversial £80m asylum centre in Oxfordshire.

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    Life in the Clink

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Edward Cullinan Architects has won planning permission for a six-storey residential scheme that will open up views of the rose window of the 11th-century Winchester Palace in Clink Street, south London. The western end of the historic church ruin, once the palace of the bishop of Southwark, is currently obscured ...

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    Contacts

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Kellogg lands MoD dealKellogg Brown & Root has been picked by the Ministry of Defence as preferred bidder for the contract to provide support services to the British armed forces. Banner rushed to hospitalBanner Holdings has been awarded a £7.1m contract by Winchester and Eastleigh NHS Trust to build a ...

  • Features

    Temporary Queens

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    On Saturdays, in the dense heat of the New York summer, Manhattan sophisticates make one of their rare trips cross the East River to Long Island City, Queens. Their destination is the PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, where they happily queue around the block to spend the evening drinking, dancing and ...

  • News

    Bovis profit jumps 14.5% as Lend Lease loses £235m

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Bovis is 'reaping dividends' of shake-up while Australian parent suffers 'painful' losses in the USA.

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    Persimmon needs £500m to enter FTSE 100

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Persimmon chief executive John White believes the housebuilder will have to increase in value by £500m if it is to break into the FTSE 100.

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    Sharewatch

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    How construction fared in the City this week

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    Mouchel Parkman targets FTSE 350

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    The support services group created by last week's merger between Mouchel and Parkman has set itself the goal of becoming a FTSE 350 company within 12 months.

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    Keller axes 80 jobs in two months

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Construction services group Keller has made 80 redundancies in its UK businesses since June.

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    PPG3 to add 10% to housebuilding costs

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders have predicted that the cost of building properties will rise by up to 10% over the next 12 months.

  • Comment

    A case for the SFA

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Does empty space always cry out to be filled? Not when what you're filling it with looks like Berkeley Homes' Potters Fields project, it doesn't

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    Trial by media

    2003-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Unless I have badly misread the intentions of UK legal practice, I think Tony Bingham may have the wrong end of a stick in his concern for Dr David Kelly's credibility (8 August, page 42).The question hangs on the meaning of "witness". Misuse of the word by the media, possibly ...