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Top floor for site huts, hard hats and dirty floors
Sloane Square emporium Peter Jones has definitely seen better days. But up on the roof, a Bovis-led team is running a four-year revamp that will transform the store into a 21st-century shoppers' paradise.
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A light touch
Paul Traynor - Lighting designers often have their concepts ruined by engineers. How can this be avoided?
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Cost model: Procuring social housing
The Housing Corporation is pushing housing associations into adopting the partnering and prefabrication ethos of the Egan agenda. Davis Langdon & Everest looks at how they are responding to the challenges of smart procurement, with case studies from two pathfinding schemes
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Just the job
Jaz Vilkhu, of building materials manufacturer Marshalls, tells Melanie Delargy how his company's innovative sales approach saves its clients a great deal of money
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Appointments
ContractorsDavid McLean Contractors has appointed Gareth Davies information systems director.Janice McCann (right) has joined Balfour Beatty subsidiary Balfour Kilpatrick as safety and environmental manager.Alan Fox has been promoted to managing director of ceilings and decorative finishes contractor Clark & Fenn, part of Skanska.Commercial landscape contractor Severn Vale Contracts has appointed ...
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Bidders defiant over legal threat to Tube contracts
Consortiums insist that government has nothing to fear from a judicial review into the part privatisation.
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Pupils set to come to school in hard hats
Ministers aim to put the government's £1bn school building programme to innovative use – by asking pupils to get involved in the construction process.
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Foot-and-mouth crisis paralyses small builders
Rural firms fear the worst as work grinds to a halt on projects across the countryside
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Take over network, parliament tells Railtrack
Railtrack should immediately take over direct responsibility for inspecting and maintaining its rail network, a parliamentary report recommended this week.
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HTA claims over Village sacking
Former Greenwich Millennium Village designer HTA Architects has put in a substantial claim against the developer that sacked it from the job
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YJL revealed as mystery Allen bidder
Acquisitive contractor YJL is in the running to buy Allen's troubled construction business.
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Shipshape and Bristol fashion
Regeneration specialist URBED will submit this masterplan for a £200m project to transform 20 ha of derelict land in Bristol at the end of April.
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Scots fear for social housing
Scottish housebuilders fear that their affordable housing business will be hit if, as expected, it is decided that housing grants for the sector do not comply with European Union rules on state aid.
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£850m London transport projects begin
Four large-scale London infrastructure projects worth a total of £850m are set to move to the consultation stage in May.
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Green activists to target Carillion and Balfour Beatty
Friends of the Earth set to launch new campaign against Birmingham Relief Road contractors.
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Arup: Fitzpatrick move is nothing to do with bridge
Arup has hotly denied reports that Tony Fitzpatrick, the director and engineer in charge of the Millennium Bridge, has been transferred to the USA because of the bridge debacle.
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Hackney council plans 15-year CM deal
Hackney council's housing department is considering letting a 15-year construction management deal for its £80m annual repair, maintenance and capital works programme.
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Greek gift
WML/Woods Bagot has designed the masterplan and £200m first phase of the massive expansion of Thessaloniki Airport in northern Greece.
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Five in race for London's biggest brownfield prize
Consortiums named for £800m mixed-use scheme in east London's Silvertown Dock.