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From executive box to chocolate box
When the government told housebuilders to drop executive estates, the reaction was frigid. But some firms have shown that high quality, high-density homes can mean high profits – even if the results can sometimes be a little soft-centred.
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Consider the client
Why is it that the industry continues to erect buildings that aren't fit for their purpose? Perhaps it's time to start trying to get a handle on what your client needs
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Colour me beautiful
Sexy and tough, polycarbonate has a great future and Tate Modern architect Herzog & de Meuron has just covered the Laban Centre in south-east London in it. Thomas Lane meets the new kid on the cladding block
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Crane quits Arup after 22 years
Ray Crane, former chairman of Arup USA, has left to start a US office for Australian consulting engineer the Meinhardt Group.
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Foster and Koolhaas to team up in Texas
Signature architects Lord Foster and Dutchman Rem Koolhaas have been selected to design the £140m Dallas Centre for the Performing Arts.
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Supervisors call for beefed-up role
The Institution of Planning Supervisors has respondedto a plan to axe the role of the planning supervisor by arguing they should be given more power.
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Olympic bid to focus on World Trade Centre
The redevelopment of the World Trade Centre site could be at the heart of a bid by New York for the 2012 Olympics.
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What a corker
International architect Denton Corker Marshall has won Australia's Sir Zelman Cowen Award for its Melbourne Museum. The building includes 70,000 m2 of exhibition galleries, an Imax theatre, a children's museum and an Aboriginal cultural centre. It is the second time the practice has won the award; the first was for ...
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Heathfield goes as Ballast Nedam loses £40m
Dutch company Ballast Nedam this week announced a major restructuring of Ballast, its UK construction arm, writes Gordon Jon Thompson.
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Stanton Williams bags £30m university job
Stanton Williams has won a competition to design the £30m headquarters of the National Film and Television School at South Bank University.The practice beat off three other practices – Alsop Architects, Bennetts Associates and Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners – to win the contest.The school selected Mace as project manager for ...
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Cala to pioneer e-business
Housebuilder Cala is to become the first UK housebuilder to fully adopt an e-business system, according to software provider BuildEurope.
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Contractors pay out £1m over bridge deaths
Two contractors have been ordered to pay more than a £1m in fines and costs over health and safety breaches that led to four deaths.
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Mowlem settles for £17.3m after six-year MoD dispute
Contractor Mowlem has received £17.3m from the Ministry of Defence after a six-year dispute over a £254m scheme in Bristol.
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The dock of the bay
Hertfordshire housebuilder Furlong Homes has been chosen to develop this £80m residential project at the Royal Docks in east London. The Jestico + Whiles scheme includes 440 apartments alongside a yacht basin and the refurbishment of a listed hotel. Civil and structural engineer is Alan Baxter Associates and ground remediation ...
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Specialists slam Glaxo's online tendering auction
Heating and Ventilating Contractors Association says the tending process undermines Egan principles.
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Client body backs Asite internet portal
Construction internet portal Asite has gained the backing of client body the Confederation of Construction Clients.The confederation said it would work with Asite to encourage its members to use online collaboration tools on projects.Confederation chief executive Zara Lamont claimed that clients' take-up of internet services would lead to improved margins ...
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Councils 'lack design skills'
Local authorities have too few staff with design skills, according to a report by CABE.
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Developer rolls out prefab business centres
Cambridge developer the Tartan Group is rolling out a series of "business innovation centres" across south-east England.
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HBF warns Livingstone of looming crisis over 50% rule
Trade body the House Builders Federation has stepped up its opposition to London mayor Ken Livingstone's proposal that half of all new schemes should be made up of affordable housing.
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Housebuilders' bosses quit after divisions are merged
Rationalising initiatives at Berkeley Group and Crest Nicholson have led managing directors to leave.