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King's Cross developer to use partnering
Joint venture developer Argent St George plans to set up partnering agreements with specialist contractors and materials suppliers to tackle the £1.5bn of construction work at its 27 ha King's Cross Central site in London.
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£300m Holyrood seven times over budget
The Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh will cost more than £300m, it emerged this week.
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Atkins director dies, aged 57
The industry this week mourned the sudden death of RICS vice-president and Atkins regional director Chris Powell.
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¡Hola!:
¡Hola!: This Building Design Partnership-designed retail and leisure development in Madrid is for Lend Lease Europe. Opened at the end of last month, the £94m TresAguas project provides 65,000 m2 of retail and leisure space, including a children's park and a 15-screen cinema. Construction manager was Bovis Lend Lease, QS ...
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High-Point Rendel in talks over going private
Consultant High-Point Rendel is in talks with a bank to take the company off the stock market and away from the threat of a hostile takeover.
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Costain closes offices in centralisation drive
Contractor Costain is grouping its asset management, building and engineering operations at its headquarters in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
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FeaturesGreat expectation
After years of abortive planning, a realistic scheme is finally emerging for the redevelopment of King's Cross, and it's billed as the most exciting regeneration project in central London for a century and a half. In the first of three articles in the run-up to Prescott's urban summit, Martin Spring ...
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Invisible pleasures
Medieval builders who died before their cathedrals were finished were lucky, because once a building's built, everything it could be is erased by what it is
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FeaturesUp with skool
… because going back there as a grown-up is a lucrative career move, according this year's Mirza & Nacey survey of QSs' fees
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What's yours is mine
Guidance has been published on what happens when a firm makes a windfall profit by refinancing a PFI. You have been warned …
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Unconscionable temerity
Law and practice on contractors' bonds is tilted in favour of the employers who call on them – which they do, often without good cause. Time for a change
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FeaturesSpotless enterprise
Is there life on Mars? Britain is sending a robotic spacecraft to find out. But the space experts' first challenge was to create a room so spotless, the craft could be built bacteria-free. Otherwise it might confuse Martian germs with the Milton Keynes variety … Andy Pearson boldly went to ...
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Sitting pretty
Creating the right impression can help your career and your work environment.
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Building Homes Quality Awards
The Building Homes Quality Awards 2002. Winners from 14 categories.
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Tackling racism: a positive approach
Racism still taints the construction industry. A new report sponsored by the CITB says that site quotas for ethnic minorities may help reduce discrimination
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FeaturesIf winter comes …
The Swiss Re tower is going to be a fine skyscraper, but as demand for offices in London cools, 250,000 ft2 of it is still unlet. The forecast? Developers are going into hibernation and any contractors caught out in the open are in danger of severe exposure.
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NewsAtkins staff lose £140m as shares plummet 93%
Employee shareholders suffer as share value falls from peak of 705p in April to 52p this week.