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NewsCourting favour
Courting favour: The UK's first PFI crown and county court building has been completed in Belfast at a cost of £20m. Designed by the Hurd Rolland Partnership it contains 16 crime, county and magistrates' courtrooms arranged in two tiers. Public access is from a glazed mall overlooking the Laganside waterfront. ...
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NHS bars PFI advisers from bidding for hospitals
NHS Estates set to impose curbs because of concern that consultants could possess unfair knowledge of costs.
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Ready, steady, go for Millennium Bridge
WORK to remove the wobble on the £18.2m Millennium Bridge has been completed by a project team led by engineer Arup.
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Rogers up for £55m PFI courts job
leading architect Richard Rogers is one of three practices to be shortlisted to design a £55m PFI court complex in Manchester. The project is the UK’s biggest judicial building job since the construction of the Royal Courts of Justice in 1870.
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Balfour Beatty wins £150m work in USA
Contractor Balfour Beatty has won £150m of infrastructure development work in the USA.
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£1bn King’s Cross revamp may keep it low
The development team behind the £1bn King’s Cross regeneration scheme in London has hinted that the project is unlikely to include tall buildings.
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Contracts
Wates to build £16.8m hallsContractor Wates Construction has been awarded a £16.8m contract to build an eight-storey student accommodation block, called the Keyworth Centre, for South Bank University in Southwark, London.£3m fire refurb in StockportContractor Linford-Bridgeman has won a two-year £3.2m contract to restore Stockport’s grade II-listed Staircase House, which ...
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NewsUCATT urges Treasury to ban bogus rail workers
Union will meet chief adviser to argue that self-employed workers should be excluded from transport jobs.
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Industry gives cool response to SRA plan
The Strategic Rail Authority's 10-year plan to revitalise the railway system was this week described as short-sighted by the industry.
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BDP wins planning approval
Architect Building Design Partnership has won planning approval for a £13m business school at Napier University's Craiglockhart campus in Edinburgh. The campus site includes the former hydropathic hospital building, which housed war poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon during the First World War. The design includes a titanium-clad 200-seat lecture ...
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Questions of life and death
The Home Office is busy working on a new corporate killing law that will dramatically up the stakes on safety. It's vital that they get it right
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Construction output to fall 1.9% this year
the gloomiest forecast yet for construction's prospects in 2002/3 has been published by Martin Hewes. It predicts that output will fall 1.9% this year, and that the commercial and industrial sectors will be worst hit.
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French link-up to target PFI
London-based architect David Long has formed a joint venture with French architect Brunet Saunier to target UK healthcare PFI projects.
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NewsTaywood: Napier is right choice
Taylor Woodrow this week defended the appointment of brewing boss Iain Napier as its chief executive.
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Gleeson dragged down by housing arm
Contractor Gleeson has blamed the performance of its housing business for the group’s profit warning last week.
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Tay boss joins Wilcon as firm is swallowed
Former Tay Homes chief executive Bill Bannister has joined rival housebuilder Wilson Connolly as a regional chairman.
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FeaturesClient profile - St Helens
Can you imagine a council presenting a builder with a blank cheque and asking it to put up a school? Victoria Madine meets one that did, and finds out what happened next …
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Delayed gratification
Concurrent delays and extensions of time can be a tricky issue for everyone. So why are they dodged by standard forms when two changes would sort them out?
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Transcendental mediation
An 'adjudimed' is an adjudicator with knobs on, someone who will use mediation methods to get the parties to rise above the dispute and resolve it for themselves