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NewsTwo venture capitalists linked to Atkins sale talks
Cinven and 3i named as possible buyers; Atkins boss Jeffries admits there have been 'very preliminary' talks.
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EP cuts new deal to get Allerton Bywater moving
Agency to reduce role of Gleeson–Miller in Yorkshire's millennium village in hope of beginning site work this year.
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NewsOne month hole appears in CTRL programme
Work is suspended on east London section of rail link after tunnelling disturbs 19th-century wells.
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Clarke: Start talking to schools
Education secretary Charles Clarke has called for better links to be forged between contractors and secondary schools to meet the sector's skills crisis.
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Lack of landlord stalls £300m estate plan
The £300m Ocean Estate regeneration scheme in London's East End has been delayed by the council's failure to find housing association to take on the project.
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Industry calls for six-month review of congestion charge
Trade bodies hope to present a case demonstrating financial effects of London traffic levy on industry.
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Firms sue Atkins for £6m over DLR explosion
Atkins is being sued for £5.9m by contractors Mowlem and Nishimatsu after an explosion in a tunnel during work to extend the Docklands Light Railway in 1998
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NewsTiber, Tiber, burning bright
Consulting engineer Buro Happold has been commissioned to develop its winning design for the Ponte della Musica bridge in Rome. The bridge design team came out top in the international competition for a dual-purpose pedestrian and public transport bridge across the River Tiber. The scheme, which was co-designed with Powell-Williams ...
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Features
Lifetime costs: sanitaryware
The choice of sanitaryware in hospitals and healthcare schemes is a crucial one – but how to decide what to go for? Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group examines the whole-life costs of components
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FeaturesChurchill Hospital hospice: A design for life
Creating an environment in which terminally ill patients can enjoy the rest of their lives requires the utmost sensitivity and imagination in the architect’s choice of materials. We look at how Nightingale Associates went about the task at an Oxford hospice
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FeaturesGym’ll fix it
Faced with 3 m of snow each year, the patients of Japan’s Odate hospital had nowhere to exercise in winter. But then along came Shigeru Ban with a characteristically unconventional solution – a subterranean gymnasium under a dome of pure plywood.
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Joined-up thinking
Student Javier Parsons tells us how he is giving Cyril Sweett a helping hand
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NewsMiller plans southern invasion
The housebuilding arm of Edinburgh-based contractor the Miller Group will respond to the government's £22bn communities plan by setting up a division in the south of England, writes Mark Leftly.
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Business failures rise by one-fifth
Insolvencies in the construction sector increased by 20% in the fourth quarter of 2002 compared with the same period in 2001, according to government figures.
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QS Currie & Brown hints at profit fall
Top 10 quantity surveyor Currie & Brown has hinted at a fall in profit in its next annual results.
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Comment
O'Rourke's drift
So Ray O'Rourke's fusiliers are going to make £55,000 a year while they put up Terminal 5, are they? Maybe, but they'll have to win some battles first …
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