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NewsFlat feat
Flat feat: Cartwright Pickard Architects has unveiled plans for a five-storey apartment scheme on the corner of Princess Street and George Street in the heart of Manchester. The apartments will vary in size from 600 to 1200 ft2 and will include five penthouses. The building’s original warehouse facades will be ...
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City-wide heritage initiative
English Heritage has intensified its strategy of conservation-led regeneration with a pioneering initiative covering the whole of the city of Liverpool.
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Symonds picked to manage Wembley team
Consultant Symonds has been picked as project manager for the £300m Wembley stadium project, whose future will be decided next month.
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Blacklisting fear over agency sale
Fears are growing that the imminent sale of the labour agency ESCA Services will lead to a monopoly in labour supply to the construction market.
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NewsUnion PFI deal to be tested on £300m Coventry hospital
Industry waits to see how agreement allowing ancillary workers to remain on NHS payroll works in practice.
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Two Building Awards shortlists announced
Shortlists were announced this week for the industry's client and personality of the year at the 2002 Building Awards.The awards, which will be hosted by Rory Bremner at London's Grosvenor House Hotel on 24 April, also honour the industry's contractors, housebuilders, architects and other consultants.The shortlist for client of the ...
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£500m canal programme unveiled
British Waterways has launched the second phase of a two-stage, £500m programme of canal work, including nine new restoration projects and waterway schemes.
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Architect offers help to school heads
Architect Hunter & Partners has launched a service to help head teachers manage construction work in schools.
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Contracts
Osborne wins £12m SafewayContractor Osborne has been awarded a £12m contract to build a Safeway store and car park as part of a town-centre development in Sidcup, Kent.Baggaley to build care homeBaggaley Construction has secured a £2.7m design-and-build contract for a 59-bed residential care home and day centre in Broxtowe ...
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NewsNew kid on the dock
New kid on the dock: Architect Benoy has received detailed planning consent from Tower Hamlets council for this 10-storey, £17m office and apartment block in the Royal Victoria docks, east London. Work is due to start in June for developer Harbour Land. The scheme includes 5000 m2 of offices and ...
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PFI housing subsidies are unfair, say councils
Government under attack after authorities discover housing PFIs receive less subsidy than alternative scheme.
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NewsHappy campus
Happy campus: Hawkins/Brown has won planning permission for its design for the University of Portsmouth’s business school. The practice won a competition to design the scheme in April 2001, and work is due to start on site in June. The project team includes contractor Fitzpatrick, project manager Northcroft, M&E engineer ...
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Broadway Malyan wins £175m Hackney estate plan
Team led by top architect to cost and put finishing touches to plan for one of Europe’s largest housing estates.
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NewsTaywood has 'turned round' contracting arm
THE RECENTLY appointed chief executive of Taylor Woodrow, Iain Napier, has said he wants to continue the rehabilitation of the group's contracting business by increasing the amount of work it does for its housebuilding arm.
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NewsMcAlpine shoots for premiership
Alfred McAlpine is in talks with premier league football clubs to take over the facilities management of their stadiums, writes Gordon Jon Thompson.
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£160m Bristol job gives Dean & Dyball shock lead
Hampshire contractor goes from nowhere to top spot for February, ahead of Sir Robert McAlpine and Kier.
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Hansom at MIPIM
Parties, yachts, helicopters, outrageous prices, killer whales, Mel Gibson's toilet – it's just work, work, work in Cannes …
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Face the facts
When it comes to inner city social housing, boring, old-fashioned public procurement is the most amazingly good deal for the taxpayer. Unlike the PFI …
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FeaturesRaising Hull
Opening to the public this weekend, Sir Terry Farrell's Hull aquarium is designed to put the lost city of the North back on the map. But, asks Martin Spring, is The Deep up to the task?