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NewsFinished symphony
Finished symphony: An £8m conversion of the King Charles building at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, south-east London, has been completed for the Trinity College of Music. The scheme, which was project managed by Hornagold & Hills, converted the grade I-listed building into student rehearsal rooms and recording, recital ...
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NewsSuite dreams
Suite dreams: Ireland Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced this week that London-based practice London Bloc Architects had won an open competition organised by the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland to design street furniture for O'Connell Street in Dublin. The suite of furniture structures is repeated along the 550 m street, ...
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Haywards wins £60m housing job
A consortium including multidisciplinary consultant Kennedy Haywards has won the competition to develop a £60m housing scheme in Bermondsey Spa, south-east London.
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Midas sues engineer C&A for negligence
Midas Construction is suing structural engineer C&A Consultants for £400,000 after problems arose at the Truro College development in Cornwall.
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Contracts
Ibex lands TV fit-out jobFit-out contractor Ibex Interiors has bagged a £5m contract to fit out broadcasting studios and offices at Chiswick Park, west London, for Corinthian Television Facilities.EC Harris wins Liverpool dealConsultant EC Harris has been picked as project manager and QS by developer Beetham Organisation for an £18m ...
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CLG to close, but retentions fight goes on
The Constructors' Liaison Group's campaign against retentions will continue, even though the body is to be wound up this summer.
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HTA fights Greenwich ruling
HTA Architects hopes to overturn a legal decision that seriously weakened its ability to sue the developers of the £250m Greenwich Millennium Village project.
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Rowen to invest £4m in Watson Steel
Listed steel contractor Severfield-Rowen is to invest £4m this year in Watson Steel, the former Amec subsidiary it acquired for £2.6m last November.
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NewsJocks away
Jocks away: Skanska has won a £4m contract to fit out 79 luxury apartments in Edinburgh for Fountainbridge Developments, a joint venture between Glasgow-based developer AB Hamilton and the Bank of Scotland. The site’s shell and core are already under construction by Skanska, and the fit-out programme is scheduled to ...
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£40m housing scheme for East Midlands coalfield site
English Partnerships set to approve first ever high-density housing scheme on former coal board land.
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FeaturesYou say you want a revolution
The Scottish tourist office has got another image to put into its montage of Caledonian wonders: the Falkirk Wheel, a spectacular rotating boat lift. And as well as being a marvel of engineering and a work of art, it links the country's two greatest cities
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Citex moves into Cyprus
Multidisciplinary consultant Citex has formed a joint venture with a Cypriot company as part of a drive to grow internationally.
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HBG and Dragados fined £66,000 each
Contractors HBG and Dragados have each been fined £66,000 by the Dutch financial market watchdog for breaching the Netherlands' Securities Trade Act.
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Rescue fund set up for PFI contractors
A fund to buy stakes in problem PFI projects was set up by fund managers Innisfree and M&G last week. It is hoped that contractors will sell it stakes in projects that have run into difficulties.
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FeaturesBright sparks
Kings Avenue School in Lambeth, south London, with its vivid colours and inclusive approach to special needs education, offers Martin Spring an inspiring glimpse into a possible future of Britain's schools.
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FeaturesClient profile: British Waterways
Water, water, everywhere – and all of it the height of fashion, whether in a Titchmarshed garden or a comeback canal. Victoria Madine investigates one source of this new wave
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Beat the squeeze
Uncertain times mean it's more important than ever to maintain a positive cash flow