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Costain appoints MD for building arm
Costain has appointed Mark Gordon managing director of its building division.
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Budget gives tax boost to small firms
Small firms received a boost from chancellor Gordon Brown’s Budget, announced this week.
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Firms face jail over illegal labour
Immigration officers will soon be entitled to enter building sites to look for illegal immigrants, and contractors could face jail under proposed legislation covering illegal work.
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NewsDome management 'not fraudulent', says watchdog
Investigation into New Millennium Experience Company criticises procurement but refutes claims of fraud.
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Wilson should quit 'neglected' construction, says Tory MP
Ex-construction minister Robert Key claims Wilson's construction brief is overwhelmed by energy needs.
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Humane modernist Peter Shepheard dies
Sir Peter Shepheard, who worked in architecture, planning and landscape design, has died aged 88.
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Built on sand?
Poor housebuilders. For nearly a decade, they've given the City what they thought it always wanted – year-on-year growth in profits and, latterly, double-digit margins. The response from the Square Mile? Utter indifference. The sector is rated at less than half the stock exchange average. Even contractors, with their 2%-if-you're-lucky ...
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NewsWarm Wellcome
Warm Wellcome: Medical charity the Wellcome Trust has approved a masterplan by US architect NBBJ for an £80m extension to its genome research campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire. NBBJ won a competition to design the 24,000 m2 project late last year. The drawings have been submitted to South Cambridgeshire council. Fuller ...
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SLR: We didn’t walk away
Developer Southwark Land Regeneration this week denied it had walked off the £1.5bn Elephant & Castle regeneration scheme in south London.
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Watchdog urges MoD to share PFI experience
Civil service expertise built up on the £746m PFI upgrade of the Ministry of Defence’s Whitehall headquarters should be spread across the government, says the National Audit Office.
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Lewisham gives 26-storey tower go-ahead
Lewisham council has approved proposals for a £60m regeneration project in south-east London a year after the scheme was criticised by conservation body English Heritage.
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Best entries since 1960s, says Civic Trust
ALmost 200 projects were honoured last night as outstanding examples of urban design in the 2002 Civic Trust Awards.
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NewsCarey Jones' locker
Carey Jones' locker: Leeds-based Carey Jones Architects has obtained detailed planning consent for this 18,600 m2 waterside office scheme at the Crosby Group's £100m Clarence Dock development in Leeds. The building will be split into three units, each with entrances from the dockside and supplementary rear access. Project manager is ...
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Feilden Clegg Bradley axed from Bristol courts project
"Unlucky" architect taken off £180m scheme after change of site cuts the number of practices required.
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Bouygues to bid for Bart's PFI
Contractor Bouygues was expected to put in a bid today for the £620m Royal London and St Bartholomew's PFI hospital scheme, the final day for applications.
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Liverpool tenants vote to quit council
LIVERPOOL cOUNCIL tenants in the east of the city this week voted to transfer 13,500 council homes to registered social landlords.
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Contracts
Bovis lands £45m airportContractor Bovis Lend lease has won a contract to build a £45m airport at the Farnborough Airfield in Hampshire for client Tag Aviation.Reading picks preferred QSsRidge and Partners, Gleeds and Citex have been picked as framework QSs for the University of Reading for five years.Birse wins £32m ...
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Railtrack set to pick architect for Euston plan
A masterplanner for the £400m redevelopment of Euston station was due to be named by Railtrack yesterday, after Building went to press.
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‘Contractor to blame’ for Center Parcs fire
A roofing contractor was to blame for the fire at the Elveden Center Parcs complex in Suffolk on 4 April, according to a report by the Suffolk fire service released this week.