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Bett Brothers doubles profit to £7.4m
Scottish housebuilder and developer Bett Brothers more than doubled its pre-tax profit in the six months to 28 February.
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Alsop and Yeang battle for £80m Liverpool icon
Richard Rogers may also be in running to design 'fourth grace' mixed-use scheme for key Merseyside location.
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BAA team plans £128m overhaul of Omani airport
Airport operator is hiring consultant team for upgrading of Seeb airport in Gulf state capital.
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St George and the Elephant, round two
Residential developer St George is to draw up new plans to rebid for the £1.5bn Elephant & Castle regeneration scheme.
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Glasgow faces work glut and labour famine
More than 16,000 jobs will be created in Glasgow over the next 10 years to meet increased demand in the construction sector, according to a report compiled by researchers at the city's university.
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Amec AGM targeted by dam protesters
Campaigners led by Friends of the Earth protested outside Amec's annual general meeting in London on Wednesday.
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Land and freedom
How far should Whitehall intervene in the housing crisis? Last week's disclosures that the House Builders Federation is lobbying Downing Street to get more land for homes and that Lord Falconer is planning "prefabs for key workers" (see news) has polarised opinion. Interventionists argue that the shortage of homes for ...
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NewsContamination delays Allerton Bywater by year
contamination problems at the second Millennium Village in West Yorkshire have delayed the scheme by 12 months.
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NewsHarlow highlight
Harlow highlight: Architect Benoy has designed this £60m mixed-use development in central Harlow, Essex, for Wilson Bowden Developments. Work started on the site this week. The 88,000 m2 project will include apartments, an Asda store and an Indigo health and fitness club. Structural engineer is BWB and Jones King is ...
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McNicholas hit by ITV fallout
Contractors McNicholas Construction and Broadband Services International have halted construction work for client Omne after the digital communications firm was put into administration last week.
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Opinion
As Marx observed after Louis Napoleon seized power in 1850, in a toy-town repeat of the great Bonaparte's earlier coup: History repeats itself "first as tragedy, then as farce". The same thought came to mind on hearing Lord Charlie of the Ivory Dome's announcement that prefabs were the answer to ...
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Newcomer wins £120m Sheffield scheme
A north-western English consortium has beaten off established rivals to be named preferred partner for the £120m Heart of the City regeneration scheme in Sheffield.
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Contracts
Carillion scoops £43m barracksCarillion has been chosen as preferred bidder for a £43m modernisation of the Lucknow barracks in Wiltshire.Skanska wins £76m HK officeSkanska's Hong Kong arm Gammon Skanska has won a contract to build a 40-storey, £76m office block called the Pacific Forum for developer Swire Properties.HBG wins Willesden ...
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NewsDownhill all the way
Downhill all the way: Architect Llewelyn-Davies has produced a masterplan and concept design for an indoor ski and winter sports centre in Hong Kong. The centre, based on the Ma Wan island in the province, includes a 250 m ski slope connected to a 30,000 m2 building housing a skating ...
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NewsFirst past the post
First past the post: Wates Homes has unveiled plans to construct these preformed post-and-beam homes at the one-acre Woodyard site in Dulwich Village, south London. The nine 280 m2 contemporary homes will be priced at more than £1m each. They will be built from pre-engineered parts made at pre-build specialist ...
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Balfour beefs up engineering
Balfour Beatty has enlarged its engineering division in a shake-up of group operations.
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Sharewatch
It's a bit of a coincidence that, in the week that Costain's shares hit a four-year high of 23p, it emerged that the group had paid former chief executive John Armitt £300,000 after his resignation in April last year.
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Lawrence and Mott MacDonald team up
Multidisciplinary contractor Lawrence and consulting engineer Mott MacDonald have formed a joint venture to target the industrial and water sectors.
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Hochtief appoints UK managing director
German construction giant Hochtief has appointed Stephen Ives as its new UK managing director after the retirement of Leslie Forrest.
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Features
Breakdown
In some areas of Burnley, house prices have fallen by half in the past 10 years. Here, property ownership makes you poorer. The result is a bitter struggle for regeneration funds that the hard right has exploited to win electoral success. Mark Leftly reports on a city staring into the ...