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Laing's long goodbye to building is almost over
Former contractor announces that it is in talks to sell its last contracting subsidiary, Holloway White Allom.
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EH makes new objections to Heron Tower
English Heritage has this week attacked the architecture quality of Kohn Pedersen Fox's design for Heron Tower in the City of London.
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Supervisors attack Egan plans
Representatives of planning supervisors have acknowledged that their role will be reformed if plans to shake-up the Construction (Design and Management) regulations are implemented, writes Tom Broughton. But they insist that their work will still have to be carried out.
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Industry chiefs back planning proposals
Industry body the Design in Construction Alliance has written to the government urging it to implement five key principles in its forthcoming planning green paper.
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Contracts
YJL wins £14m market schemeContractor YJL has been awarded a £14m contract by Brittanic Asset Management for an 11,600 m2 office and retail scheme at the former Kensington market site in London. HBG scoops £6m hospital dealHBG has won a £6m contract to provide facilities at the City General Hospital ...
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MPs' report slams national stadium fiasco
The government's handling of plans for a national athletics stadium has been slammed by a select committee report this week.
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Amey and Miller win £360m Edinburgh schools PFI
Amey and Miller Construction have finalised details of a 30-year PFI contract worth £360m for a bundle of schools in Edinburgh.
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ECD does it
ECD Architects has won planning permission for a £11m, 192-home scheme in the Coopers Road Estate in Southwark, South London. The scheme, for joint client the Peabody Trust and Southwark Housing, mixes three-storey houses and four-storey apartment blocks grouped around communal gardens. The project team includes structural engineer Price and ...
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British architect to advise US airports on safer design
Geoffrey Reid Associates to use UK airport design expertise to protect American airports against terrorism.
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School of hard knocks
Designing and building a European university in 10 months was quite a feat. The fact that a hastily assembled team managed it while under sporadic shellfire was even more impressive …
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Bold Citex aims to cash in on outsourcing trend
Consultant hopes to move into the black by doubling turnover in the next year.
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Rise in profitability is coming to an end
The growth in the profitability of construction firms has slowed and may be about to come to an end, according to a report published by information solutions firm Experian this week.
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McCarthy & Stone battens down the hatches
Retirement housing group halts new projects and freezes recruitment, despite 13% profit increase.
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Wilcon must wait until next year for boss
Wilson Connolly chairman Allan Leighton this week revealed that the housebuilder will be without a chief executive for at least another two months.
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Rethinking the team
Sir John Egan's proposals for improving site safety by overhauling the CDM regulations are likely to have profound implications for the way buildings are designed and constructed – but not everyone is happy.
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Sticking to it
Making unrealistic promises leads to a domino effect of missed deadlines, bitter wrangles and wrecked projects. Keeping to agreed delivery dates engenders trust
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The big freeze
Winter is coming for the UK construction industry, and Building's latest national survey reveals that only regions with a large amount of public sector work can hope to avoid the worst of the blizzards.
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Dual action
An architect dealing with a dual employer/contractor client is not unusual, but the courts might draw unexpected conclusions when conflicts of interest arise