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Skyscrapers face huge cost rise after Bloody Tuesday
Prospect of tougher fire regulations and rocketing premiums for target buildings put developments in question.
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Levitt Bernstein wins £1.25m from Stoke council
London architect reclaims overdue fees, as council pays out £20m for lottery arts projects costed at £4.7m.
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John Lewis joins rush to ditch retentions
Retail company to stop withholding payments to suppliers in order to build longer-term relationships.
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Mediation Special
Mediation is an increasingly fashionable method of dispute resolution, but because it happens in private, it rarely gets reported. Until now, that is …
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Technical Special: Cladding
We visit the innovative GLA building, marvel at the bronze skin of a 152 ft high Buddha, discover a system that could revolutionise bricklaying, tell you what went into the multicoloured facade of Greenwich’s Millennium Village
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Industry in front line of rescue and clean-up effort
Amec, Bovis Lend Lease, WSP and Skanska among companies that volunteered to look for survivors.
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How the operation is being organised
The first salvage workers began sifting through the rubble within five hours of the collapse of the World Trade Centre. What began as a search and rescue operation has grown into a mammoth clean-up effort involving the emergency services, the New York authorities and contractors including Amec and Bovis Lend ...
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'If we think it's stable, we let the rescue teams in with dogs'
Arup US boss Ray Crane is helping to lead the rescue effort. This is his story.
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Fire experts to examine safety regulations
Cross-industry working group led by RIBA president will look at ways of preventing collapse of tall buildings.
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'In the dark, the sight is unreal and eerie'
Phil Clark reports from the scene of devastation, where rescue work is being carried out around the clock.
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British firms sit tight in Middle East
British companies with operations in the Middle East and Asia are monitoring events after the terrorist attacks on the USA, but there are no large-scale evacuations planned.
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Three in running for gene lab
Medical charity the Wellcome Trust has shortlisted three architects to design a £80m extension to its Cambridgeshire genome campus.
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Renewal body to set up 'mini-RDAs'
The East Midlands Development Agency is working on plans to establish a series of "mini-regional development agencies" across the region. The sub-agencies will attempt to translate the action plans and overall economic strategy of EMDA into delivery. EMDA is to make the move after its board decided that sub-regions in ...
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Contracts
Birse picked for 'superstadium'Birse Group has been picked to build a £43.5m "superstadium" in Hull. Hull council picked Birse from a shortlist that included Ballast, Mowlem and Taylor Woodrow.Work to start on TrafalgarFitzpatrick has won a pre-construction works contract to pedestrianise Trafalgar Square for client Transport for London. Ballast nabs ...
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Leading light
This seminar and learning centre at Imperial College, London, was previously unused space. The 8 m tall room on the fifth floor of the Sherfield Building was a gloomy and cavernous steel shell, with a single skylight. This has been balanced by a second, and the light has been intensified ...
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Leeds tower on track despite Persimmon departure
The developers of a £70m tower in Leeds claim the scheme is still on track to begin construction next year, despite the decision of housebuilder Persimmon to pull out.
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Eye's wide open
Gateshead's £22m blinking footbridge across the River Tyne opens to the public this week, three years and four months after joint venture contractor Harbour & General/Volker Stevin started work. In the unique design by Wilkinson Eyre Architects and civil engineer Gifford & Partners, the whole structure moves like an eyelid, ...