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    Clarke to meet Atkins staff

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Incoming Atkins chief executive Keith Clarke will meet senior employees later this month.

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    UK engineering needs another Brunel, says ICE

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    The Institution of Civil Engineers has called on the government to appoint a chief engineering adviser to oversee the national infrastructure.

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    Shepherd makes key appointment

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Shepherd Group has promoted Patrick Shepherd to chairman of its construction and engineering division.

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    Religious restraint

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Architect Halpern has won planning permission from Westminster council for an 18-flat, 2300 m2 block off Vauxhall Bridge Road, central London. The scheme stands next to a grade I-listed church of St James the Less and the 1960s Lillington Gardens housing estate. The project was considered by Westminster planners to ...

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    Design elite queues to get into museums

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Terry Farrell & Partners, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Rick Mather Architects are among the practices competing to design a streetscape for Exhibition Road in west London.

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    Koolhaas made a laureate

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has been awarded the Praemium Imperiale Laureate for Architecture, the arts equivalent of a Nobel Prize, by the Japan Art Association.

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    Interior wins two-horse race for £40m Ascot stand

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Interior has beaten off a challenge from Mace to win a £40m construction management job to fit out a stand at Ascot racecourse in Berkshire.

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    Crystal world

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Prada's Epicenter store, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, opened its doors for the first time on 7 June in Tokyo. The building's facade is a glass-panelled grille of diamond shapes. Inside, the display surfaces were designed to integrate with the crystalline architecture. Structural engineering was by Takenaka Corporation ...

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    Willmott Dixon launches green building package

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Contractor joins architect White Design and window manufacturer Velux to offer energy-saving buildings.

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    Wanted: Workers to play the building game

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Anglia television wants to sign up construction workers for a series called Demolition Day in which teams of three compete to build and demolish structures.

  • Features

    Players on the terrace

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    A record number of MPs and the industry's top brass attended Building's annual reception on the House of Commons terrace, where they heard a controversial speech by Peter Rogers.

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    Laing sells stake in US housing firm for £25.7m

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Support services group Laing has moved further from the housing sector with the sale of its minority interest in US firm WL Homes for £25.7m.

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    Crest Nicholson makes £32m

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder Crest Nicholson has announced a pre-tax profit of £32m for the six months to 30 April, a rise of 32% on the same period last year.

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    Sharewatch

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    How construction fared in the City this week

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    Speedy Hire amasses £35m warchest

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Listed plant hire firm Speedy Hire has set up a £35m fund for acquisitions.

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    Eleven industry firms rank in Top Track 100

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Eleven construction firms have made it into the Top Track 100, compiled by The Sunday Times, which ranks Britain's biggest 100 private companies by total sales.

  • Comment

    Architects Week point

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Architects are 'celebrating' their very own Week, during which they will try to convince us they are about to change the world. It's a worrying trend …

  • Comment

    Hansom

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    This week, construction bigwigs in London ooze music from their pores, while on a desert island Daniel Libeskind gets jiggy with a washing machine

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    Fault lines

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Blaming the construction manager has become a popular pastime of clients. They would be better off claiming against the real cause of their problems

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    Fine form

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    You should welcome the arrival of the JCT's contract for major projects because it sets out your risks up front – preventing lawyers from springing them on you later