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Hemingway struts his stuff in Gateshead
Wayne Hemingway showed what a difference a celebrity fashion designer could make to UK housebuilding when he unveiled proposals for a £70m Wimpey Homes scheme this week.
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Skills crisis worsening, says report
The skills crisis in the construction industry is deepening, according to a report published this week.
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Cardiff firm to plan £650m film complex
Cardiff-based architect Holder Mathias Alcock is producing a £650m masterplan for a film studio and leisure park in South Wales.
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Contracts
Amec wins BP support dealAmec has secured a support services contract for BP in Indonesia. Oil and gas platforms will be renovated using remote control technology from a base in Aberdeen.Wakemans gets £1.5m dealProject manager Wakemans has secured a £1.5m contract with hotel group Travelodge for a 67-room lodge in ...
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Basin cut
Artists Ben Langlands and Nicky Bell have designed a footbridge for the Paddington Basin redevelopment. The artists have worked with structural engineer Atelier One on the scheme, which will be considered by Westminster council next week. The 3 m-wide bridge, next to the Orange headquarters, will stretch across one of ...
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Prize for Building at magazine awards
Building has been named the subscription magazine of the year in the business sector.Marketing manager Socratis Socratous was presented with the award by the Periodical Publishers Association, the magazine industry's umbrella body, last Thursday.Subscriptions have topped 22,500 for the first time, and renewal rates have averaged 73%, another record.The judges ...
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SCIC-Mace wins first job
Mace and SCIC, its French joint venture partner, have won their first project since linking up.
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Brighton and Hove Albion unveils £44m stadium plans
Long-awaited new home for south coast football club proposed for area of outstanding natural beauty.
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Architects picked for Yorkshire renewal plans
An international group of 13 architects has been picked to regenerate eight communities in Yorkshire.
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Performance piece
An arched glass roof encasing Philadelphia's new performing arts centre, designed by American architect Rafael Viñoly and British engineer Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners, is guaranteed to get rave reviews
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Morgan Sindall shakes up regions to boost margins
Four directors' futures under discussion as contractor brings regional businesses under a single brand.
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Curzon posts £1.3m profit for first year
Curzon Holdings, owner of fit-out firm Jarvis Newman, has posted results ahead of expectations for its first year in operation.It reported a pre-tax profit of £1.3m on turnover of £40m for the year to 31 July.Curzon was set up by chief executive David Freeborn when he led the buyout of ...
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WS Atkins merges transport
WS Atkins has grouped its five transport businesses into a single division.
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Sharewatch
Like a bungee jumper, housebuilding shares have bounced back from the Wilson Connolly-triggered falls of three weeks ago.All the major stocks were hit by jitters after Wilcon issued a profit warning and sacrificed chief executive John Tutte in a failed attempt to appease the City. Now Berkeley, whose share price ...
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Costain to hire 400 for PFI drive
Costain is growing its PFI business and recruiting 400 staff as part of chief executive Stuart Doughty's ambitious plan to increase turnover 15% and widen margins to 3%.
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New broom sweeps up at MDA
Top 15 QS MDA is beefing up its management ahead of the launch a new company strategy early next year.
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Broadway Malyan triples turnover
Broadway Malyan has tripled turnover in the past six years from £6.9m to £21.5m.
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Bovis Lend Lease shoots to the top in October
Contractor is £64m clear of second-place Skanska, thanks to £100m Norwich factory job.
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Royal treatment
Prince Charles is expected to outline his agenda as the design champion of the NHS today. Stuart Black looks at the thinking behind his appointment, and what else is being done to make private finance compatible with a first-class health service
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The hard part
Meet the actress who became a temp, set up a management consultant and took a degree in France. Now she wants to try something challenging: turning around ailing quantity surveyor MDA.