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Paul Whitmore transfers to Morgan Sindall
Laing Construction’s managing director joins smaller rival after 14 months in the job.
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Stubbs backs down over Wembley inquiry
The developer of Wembley Stadium has had second thoughts about taking Brent council to a public inquiry over planning permission for the north-west London venue.Bob Stubbs, chief executive of client Wembley National Stadium, had previously said he would precipitate an inquiry if the council failed to make a decision on ...
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Housebuilders’ league tables will be ready by October
League tables for housebuilders will be ready on time in October, insists Housing Forum chairman Sir Michael Pickard.He said: “Not everyone is clapping their hands at the prospect, but there will be league tables and they will be based on customer satisfaction.” Sir Michael said the tables would include all ...
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EH panel to supervise city regeneration
English heritage has set up a high-powered panel of experts to oversee the regeneration of historic city centres and large commercial redevelopment schemes.The panel of archaeologists, historians, urban designers and local government officers is chaired by Geoffrey Wilson, former chairman of property developer Greycoat. It also includes architects Piers Gough ...
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Stonehenge bidder finds new financial backer
Bank of Scotland to fund Sidell Gibson scheme but Granada tie-up could prove crucial in winning £30m deal.
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New architects called in on Allerton Bywater
PRP and Broadway Malyan to compete for work after second millennium village design hits local opposition.
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DETR reassures firms over pollution law
The DETR is trying to calm housebuilders’ and contractors’ fears that new regulations on contaminated land will leave them with huge clean-up bills.The rules, which come into force on 1 April, are in a revision of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Under the act, local authorities will keep a ...
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Civic Trust announces record number of awards
Supreme award for London’s Churchill Gardens Estate heads list of 38 winners announced last night.
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'Merge, then float,' stakeholder tells MDA
Allesch-Taylor wants to take QS to the market after getting approval for his representative on the board.
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Peterhouse targets support services group
Developer Peterhouse Group is negotiating to buy a fully listed support services business. Group chairman David Jackson said: “We are close to completing two or three smaller deals likely to total about £4m but we have also identified a much larger target and expect to complete in 2001.”The construction-to-services ...
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YJL plans next shopping spree
Contractor announces £12.5m Britannia takeover; another buy expected soon.
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Willmott Dixon profit jumps 20%
Privately owned contractor and housebuilder Willmott Dixon has seen pre-tax profit rise 20% to £3m for the year to 31 December 1999 following a strategic review. Chief executive Colin Enticknap said the group had started taking managers out of regional offices and moving them back on site in the last ...
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Alfred McAlpine seeks new partner
Alfred McAlpine is still keen to find a merger partner following the collapse of talks with Bryant earlier this year. Chief executive Oliver Whitehead, who fought off an approach from Brunswick Developments last year, said conversations with Bryant had shown that the two had good “complementary skills”. He added: “The ...
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Britain’s glass ceiling
Insurer Swiss Re spent 18 months working to get its new tower through planning, but it is still awaiting approval. Little wonder that the industry is crying out for clear and consistent guidelines on designing skyscrapers.
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Stefan Allesch-Taylor
The 30-year-old entrepreneur is turning his three-year-old property firm into an investment company and has just spent £85m on a stake in a US Internet business. So, why is he interested in quantity surveyor MDA?
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How to score
First person If we can get the construction team to work together rather than watching their own backs, we could be on to a winner.
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New school tie
Birds Portchmouth Russum's bridge linking two school buildings is a sculpture in steel and fabric with a Wild West theme.
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Coming up roses?
In the first of a series on urban regeneration, we report on the New Deal for Communities and ask if the programme is living up to its promises.
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Space-age design: a fly's eye view
The pair of giant spaceframe “biomes” at the £75m Eden Project in Cornwall are two of the most futuristic artificial structures in the UK. However, their design by Andrew Whalley, project director at Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, was deliberately influenced by the natural geometry of leaves, fly eyes, dragonfly wings ...
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Guaranteeing the Eden experiment
The Eden Project is the brainchild of a drop-out musician-turned-historic garden restorer Tim Smit. This CV hardly qualifies anyone to design and manage a ground-breaking construction project worth £75m, yet Smit had the foresight to second Ronnie Murning, director of London-based Land Architects, as design and development director.In combination with ...