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Europe's biggest retail centre opens
Bluewater park in Kent, Europe's largest retail and leisure development, will open for business next Tuesday. Built by Bovis for client Lend Lease on a 100 ha former chalk quarry, the £350m centre provides 154 000 m 2 of floor space for more than 320 retail outlets. It also ...
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Norwich firm takes on nationals for £60m scheme
RG Carter on final shortlist of three for millennium project to redevelop former library site.
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Egan snail's pace progress attacked by industry
Movement for Innovation chairman rejects allegations of administrative delay to projects.
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Arup wins landmark market redevelopment
Consultant's radical mixed-use scheme for Bermondsey chosen from shortlist of eight.
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Government to fund 1000 classrooms
The government has promised an extra £80m over the coming year to create more than 1000 new classrooms in a bid to reduce class sizes. The government already has a programme in place to create 600 more classrooms in infant schools catering for children aged between four ...
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ROH sparks agree bonus
Management and electricians on the £220m refurbishment of the Royal Opera House have agreed a new bonus package for the project. Under the deal, electricians working for M&E contractor Balfour Kilpatrick will earn the equivalent of a 60-hour week for working a 50-hour, five-day week. The deal will push electricians' ...
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Whitehall given Egan deadline
Treasury announces three-year plan to drive through public procurement reform and implement modernising agenda.
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Consultants may lose key role
Treasury plans to make contractors the single point of contact on major projects will lead to poor-quality buildings, consultants warned this week. Consultants stand to lose their traditional role as the client's main adviser under new procurement guidance drawn up by the Treasury. Draft guidances 4, 5 and 6 contain ...
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Fairclough sale may net Amec £120m
Buoyant housing market will boost price paid by US firm, which stands to gain UK foothold.
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Balfour Beatty wins vote of confidence from parent
Struggling BICC said it had no intention of selling Balfour Beatty after the contracting arm turned in record orders this week. The cables-to-contracting group reported pre-tax profit before exceptionals of £70m on turnover of £3.67bn for the year to 31 December 1998. However, £164m of exceptional items plunged ...
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Mowlem on acquisition trail
Mowlem is on the look-out for acquisitions after a 26% jump in its pre-tax profit to £39.4m in the year to 31 December 1998. Chief executive John Gains said the company had spent £14m on buyouts in 1998 and was looking to up the tempo in 1999. He said: "We ...
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Wainhomes goes private after shares dip again
Chairman takes company out of market to prevent asset-stripping takeover.
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Persimmon chief predicts jump in labour costs
Chief executive John White says costs will rise 4% this year as housebuilder announces record profit.
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Try branches out into fit-out and FM markets
Try has launched two new businesses aimed at capitalising on growth in the facilities management and fit-out markets. Try Accord, a new buildings and infrastructure maintenance business, has been created out of the company's Try Build and Arnold and Nathan businesses. Group chief executive David Calverley said it would ...
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Mace stake for sale as founder quits
After 10 years heading up Mace, Ian Macpherson is putting construction behind him and his 34% share up for sale but only to the right buyer.
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What's going on inside the dome?
Designers are changing, the budget is tight and the decision-making process is best described as "fluid". But there's no moving this deadline. So, will the 14 Millennium Dome zones come together on time?
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The front man
Marco Goldschmied will take over as the new president of the RIBA in June. His plans are many and varied, but at the centre is one core goal to promote the profile of architecture.
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Domesday scenario
If the Millennium Dome isn't a success, its rotting corpse could blight the Greenwich Peninsula for years to come.
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Heart transplant
Britain's second city has long been characterised by drab concrete blocks and shabby brick buildings. Now developers have joined forces to give Birmingham a smart new image.
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Birmingham's Mailbox: Britain's biggest building conversion
Even in a city famous for its concentration of huge commercial buildings, Birmingham's Royal Mail sorting office breaks several size records. For a start, it is the largest building in the city. With a footprint that covers two entire blocks, or 1.6 ha, it rises to five storeys and ...