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RMJM set to star in BBC site redesign
RMJM is favourite to design the £100m BBC redevelopment at the corporation’s White City site in London. RMJM, epr and Aukett Europe were in talks with the BBC last month about the redevelopment, but insiders said RMJM has now emerged as the front-runner.The scheme will be the first under the ...
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Bovis wins Vodafone HQ
Contractor Bovis Lend Lease has won the flagship £160m contract to build the UK headquarters for Vodafone Airtouch.The company beat off competition from Interior Services Group to scoop the contract after the shortlist had been whittled down from six to two.The Vodafone contract has been likened to Project Jaguar, BT’s ...
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Welsh assembly hit by six-month suspension
First secretary Rhodri Morgan extends audit three months as he considers scrapping project.
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BAA: Clients may go abroad to fill skills gap
Lack of direct employment is responsible for the current crisis in recruitment, warns BAA’s Terminal 5 project director.Speaking at the BRE’s second annual conference on the subject of Respect for People, Norman Haste said: “The decline is precipitated by the wholesale move to subcontracted labour. The unions have a very ...
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Wembley row threatens to put back stadium a year
Public inquiry inevitable unless developer and Brent council sort out row over £30m payment.
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Half of business 'on Internet by 2005'
The construction industry will handle half of its business over the Internet by 2005, according to the findings of the Construction Products Association’s first e-commerce survey.E-commerce has increased 10% across the board in the past 12 months, says the report, which was published in partnership with the Construction Industry Computing ...
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Lipton calls for cash to fight CABE’s London bias
Architecture champion says lack of resources prevents it from spreading influence across the whole country.
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Fielden Clegg strengthens London operation
Bath-based architect changes its name and boosts staff at its operation in the capital.
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MPs slam Dartford PFI hospital cost
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust had inadequate systems for controlling costs on private finance initiative projects, according to a damning report by the Public Accounts Committee published last week.The PAC report on the Dartford hospital project criticised the trust for failing to spot errors in the public sector comparator and ...
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Tay Homes faces bid from smaller rival
Yorkshire firm Country & Metropolitan has been buying up shares and is poised to launch a bid.
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Profit warning hits Wescol share price
Structural steel group Wescol saw its share price drop 26% this week after it warned that intense price competition would hurt its second-half margins, and that it would not be paying an interim dividend.Shares in the group dropped from 32.5p to 24p, following the announcement.A group statement said: “In the ...
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HLM to take over ad firm and go public
Architect to join forces with advertising group to form RockArchimedia, a "total branding" company that aims to get support services listing.
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Mansell's hopes for Prop.Com
Contractor Mansell expects that its joint-venture one-stop shop Prop.Com will begin to generate returns by the end of the year.The new firm is a collaboration with WS Atkins and Drake & Skull aimed at companies with international property interests. Clients are demanding a single point of responsibility for construction, maintenance ...
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Will they fly this time?
Forget what happened last time: BAA’s second-generation framework agreements are a new system being driven by a new team. But will they fare any better?
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Renzo Piano
He has the pick of the world's big private commissions. He can compare himself to a pianist and get away with it. It's OK to be jealous.
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The cost of status toys
First person Do you want team spirit? More profit? Cleaner lungs? It’s easy: junk the Jags and give everyone a Golf.
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Och aye, the new
When a Scotch whisky-drinking club developed new premises in London, award-winning architect Allies and Morrison came up with the right blend of classic and contemporary.
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Angle poise
Clear-glazed partitions spread precious daylight in an ad agency's attic office. And, in a special twist devised by hotshot designer Softroom, they slope to reflect the mansard roof.
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Turning pitch
Will a winter spent on a state-of-the-art practice surface that can simulate spin and seam wickets give Glamorgan Cricket Club the edge this season?
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Named and blamed
This is a horror story for clients. It begins with Mr Steve Catton’s firm entering into an ordinary contract with a builder, and ends with a judge telling him that he is personally liable to the tune of £200 000 …