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NewsSafe bet
Safe bet: A public exhibition for this £15m casino project in Guildford has just ended. Architect Scott Brownrigg + Turner was chosen by an unnamed local client to develop the project, which is expected to benefit from likely liberalisation of licensing and gaming regulations. Structural engineer on the project is ...
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Contracts
Gleeson wins Bellway dealMJ Gleeson has won a £5.8m contract from housebuilder Bellway Homes to build 87 apartments on West Street and Trippett Lane in Sheffield.North Midland gets sewage jobCivil engineering firm North Midland Construction has been awarded a £6.8m contract by Severn Trent Water to work on phase three ...
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NewsA beautiful Seoul
A beautiful Seoul: Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox has been chosen to design a cultural centre for Ilsan, in north-western Seoul, South Korea. The 54,000 m2 site will include a 2000-seat opera house, 1500-seat concert hall, library, exhibition hall and sports centre. The design-and-build project, undertaken in conjunction with Samsung Construction, ...
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New head for DTI’s construction division
The civil servant who oversaw progress on the troubled quality mark scheme has been appointed the new head of the DTI construction division.
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Grosvenor bags £1bn Bath regeneration deal
Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster's property company, has been selected as the development partner on the largest regeneration project outside London – the £1bn Western Riverside project in Bath.
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FeaturesThe talented Mr Ripply
An open air museum in Sussex has charted timber-frame from Tudors and traditional cottages to arrive at a new architectural idiom for the countryside
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Carillion is greenest contractor, says survey
Carillion is the most environmentally friendly contractor, according to a survey published this week.
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Capita claims place in consultants’ top 10
Listed outsourcing group Capita claims it has joined the UK construction and property consultants’ top 10.
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Aggregates levy to cost industry £330m
A new levy on aggregates could cost the construction industry £330m a year, a leading building materials producer has warned.
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Why Blair should worry
Scandal to a politician is like manure to a pig farmer – an inevitable, if not enjoyable, part of the job. However, it can prise power from the strongest PMs
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FeaturesEden better
Aggregates group RMC has the finest, most magical head office of any company in the construction industry. In fact, hanging gardens make it look more like uninterrupted parkland than a headquarters. So why did its owner want to change it? Martin Spring found out.
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2200 housing associations have 5 years to comply with 37 performance indicators. Can they handle it?
In our new regular section on housing, Victoria Madine reveals how housing associations have been given five years to comply with the Egan agenda, and overleaf, Roger Humber bemoans the forced nationalisation of housebuilding
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Our new police state
The government has taken control of housing, and the result is more mergers and takeovers – and a disastrous slump in the number of homes being built
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Just the ticket
One of the attractions of making Railtrack's successor a company limited by guarantee is that neither the government nor its members will go down if it flops
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All or nothing at all
If you challenge an adjudicator's decision, then you have to take it on in its entirety. Indicate that there are parts of it you accept, and you will lose everything
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Let's make it better
Training consultant Uly Ma talks to Victoria Madine about Project BUILD, a scheme for helping managers improve the working environment
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FeaturesAppointments
ConsultantsAlan Wedlock has joined quantity surveyor Cyril Sweett's consulting team as senior consultant. Simon Rowland, formerly partner at Watson Burton, has joined law firm Dickinson Dees as associate. V&A Project Management has appointed Jimmy Floyd, formerly with Scottish & Newcastle, project manager in its Newcastle office. HousebuildersHomes developer ...
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Anti-cowboy scheme: quality, not quantity
The government's quality mark pilots have won few friends within the industry – but a leaked DTI report is still recommending a national roll-out