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American architects cut UK jobs as US recession bites
Practices cut UK staff as American clients shelve projects and UK firms expect workload to fall 25% in 2002.
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Egan lines up Simon Murray to update report
Former Railtrack boss tipped for Rethinking Construction sequel, despite concern among forum members.
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Treading water
It's a little tougher at the top, according to the 2001 Hays Montrose/Building executive salary guide. But with salaries static, many companies are sweetening the pill with increased perks. Victoria Madine and Alex Smith peer into the wage envelope.
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Spending watchdog to give thumbs-up to PFI
PFI is due to receive a major boost from a report to be published later this month by spending watchdog the National Audit Office.
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Home shopping
Architect Piercy Conner is to build a fully operational "micro-flat" in a window at Selfridges' London store.The practice is looking for two key workers, or young professionals, to live in the flat for two weeks as part of a campaign to highlight the need for affordable housing in London. They ...
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Solution in sight for Laing's NPL nightmare
LAING expects to reach an agreed solution with the DTI before Christmas over problems at the £300m National Physical Laboratory PFI project in west London.
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Terrorism fears shrink Birmingham's towers
A planned Birmingham skyscraper is to be sharply reduced in height because of safety fears after New York's World Trade Centre attacks.
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ICE boss to restore confidence in Railtrack
Railtrack has brought in one of the most respected civil engineers in the industry in an attempt to build bridges with disillusioned contractors.
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DTI plans to off-load quality mark
The government's quality mark scheme could be handed over to the industry and funded by contractors' subscriptions.
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Rosebud Heights
Foster and Partners has been called in to complete a New York skyscraper begun by newspaper proprietor William Randolph Hearst, the man who inspired Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane in 1928. The architect has designed a high-tech 42-storey tower of 80,000 m2 to go with the six-storey stone-faced base built ...
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Good copper
A warehouse scheme in Bermondsey, south London, has won a Copper in Architecture Award 2001. Designed by architect Glas, the scheme for Acorn Homes involved the refurbishment of a five-storey printer's warehouse into offices, and was completed last month. The project team included Acorn Homes as project manager and Barton ...
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Welsh assembly row could end in court
The dispute over the Welsh assembly building could lead to legal action, a senior official has warned.John Bourn, auditor general for Wales, made the admission in a letter to members of the assembly audit committee this week.Bourn wrote: "This is a very complex and technical area, and the issues disputed ...
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Bids invited for £136m Leeds cancer unit
St James's University Hospital in Leeds is inviting bidders for a £136m oncology wing.The plans have been adapted from a smaller initial design, developed in 1999, which was scrapped after several government reviews into the treatment of cancer patients.A spokesperson for Leeds Teaching Hospitals said: "The project is now much ...
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Walsall to set PFI design standard
Four architects are competing for a £45m hospital in Walsall that is to be used as a yardstick for design quality in PFI healthcare projects, writes Stuart Black.
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Drainage, energy and flue rules change
The final version of the government's amendments to the Building Regulations have been released.
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Contracts
HBG in court winContractor HBG has won a £24.6m deal to provide magistrates' courts in Derby, Chesterfield, and New Mills, Derbyshire, for PFI consortium Derbyshire Courts.F&G wins £80m Brum jobCost consultant Faithful & Gould has bagged a project management deal on an £80m office development in Birmingham city centre for ...
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University challenge
Studio Libeskind's crumpled surrealism won the design competition for the University of North London's £2.5m graduate school. The practice beat Future Systems, Jestico + Whiles, Pascall & Watson Architects, Nicholas Hare Architects and Hodder Associates to the contract. The Orion project is Libeskind's first university building in Europe. The team ...
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Wimpey set to seal £100m Rochester Riverside deal
Medway council close to completing deal for flagship urban regeneration project after two years of talks.
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HBG takes bite of More London
Contractor HBG will take on the latest phase of the £1.5bn More London development, confirming developer CIT's move from construction management to traditional contracting.CIT switched to a traditional JCT contract for More London after using Mace as construction manager for the GLA project. HBG will construct the £15m Building 6 ...
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Government to spend £55m on GP surgeries
Health secretary Alan Milburn has set aside £55m to fund public–private partnerships aimed at improving doctors' surgeries.The package includes £10m for LIFT (local improvement finance trust) initiatives to replace or upgrade 600 surgeries over the next two years.The Department of Health and Partnerships UK, a body set up by the ...