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Cost study: Oldham bus station
At-a-glance guide Oldham Bus Station, Greater Manchester Project:New central bus station incorporating travel shop and public toilets Client:Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council in conjunction with Greater Manchester Transport Executive Architectural features: Eye-catching bus station serves as a gateway to a town centre under regeneration Clear-glazed lightweight structure combines passenger ...
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Laing to wrap up sale for £50m
Laing is expecting to complete the sale of its construction arm to concrete specialist O'Rourke by early June.
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Churchfield debts amount to £7m, creditors told
Administrators tell creditors including Mitie and Lorne Stewart that company records are in a poor state.
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Anarchists to target Balfour Beatty in May day demo
Friends of the Earth also set to hold demonstration outside annual meeting to protest over Ilisu dam project.
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Beazer chief fights Persimmon over payoff
Beazer chief executive is disputing redundancy deal in the wake of takeover.
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… while MBO team bids for prefab plants
A management buyout has been launched for Beazer's social housing division and two prefabrication factories.
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Design-build body bids to take on CIB job
Construction and client body the Design Build Foundation has offered to take over the responsibilities of the soon-to-be defunct Construction Industry Board.
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Just in time
The Richard Rogers Partnership-designed National Assembly of Wales will be completed in April 2003, in time for the next assembly elections.
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Glasgow reveals blueprint for the future
Glasgow council has unveiled a plan to halt the drift of population into the suburbs.
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Cardiff stadium hits fresh snag
The Cardiff Millennium Stadium's innovative retractable roof has developed a fault three weeks before the venue is due to host the FA Cup final on 12 May.
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Blair green light for millennium villages
More millennium villages will be built in the future with commercial property owners playing a bigger role, Tony Blair announced this week.
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Mowlem wins £384m rail deal
A consortium that includes John Mowlem has a won a PFI contract to build a £384m rail link from Alice Springs to Darwin in Australia.
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Three honoured for enterprise
Engineer Buro Happold is one three construction companies to win the Queen's Award for Enterprise this year.
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National Ice Centre, Nottingham
This £40m 9500-capacity arena next to the city's lace market quarter is now finished.
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Rural builders see glimmer of hope
Small builders have been given some hope of avoiding closure by the easing of the foot-and-mouth epidemic, but outbreaks are still disabling projects.
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MPs call for retention to be axed
The constructors liaison group has escalated its campaign against cash retentions, with up to 60 MPs signing an early day motion proposing that they be outlawed.
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Kier and Wilcon head Building Awards list
Kier and Wilcon Homes scooped the top prizes for contractors and housebuilders at this year's Building Awards, held on Wednesday night.
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Contracts
Balfour lands £33m of workBalfour Beatty has secured four contracts worth £33.7m. They are: a £15.4m design-and-build project for two buildings at a business park in Hampshire; a £9.5m design-and-build redevelopment of a cinema in Edinburgh; a £6m civil engineering contract with IM Properties for a business park at Borch ...