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FeaturesInfrastructure update: How can developers navigate the ever-lengthening connections queue?
In the second half of our two-part special on UK power, Turner & Townsend Alinea examine how the rising demand for new connections to the distribution network has time and cost impacts for developers.
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NewsUniversity of Cambridge looks at doubling size of housing scheme to 6,000 homes
More than 1,000 units already built at site on outskirts of city
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NewsHugh Broughton Architects appointed on Westminster public toilets job
Eight toilets to be refurbished across the borough in bid to replicate “Victorian civic pride” in public sanitation
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CommentAdjudication offers speed – and not at any cost
High-speed dispute resolution such as adjudication may be imperfect, but cost makes it a better option than litigation
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NewsFormer Labour MP set to be appointed chair of Old Oak development corporation
Karen Buck to start new role in January
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SponsoredThe Midlands’ path to achieving net zero emissions in the built environment
Our Building the Future Think Tank, in partnership with Constructing Excellence Midlands, hosted a regional roundtable sponsored by the Structural Timber Association in Birmingham recently. The discussions explored how to increase timber use in construction and what is needed to get the sector – and the region – on track ...
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NewsStepnell profit slides as firm prepares to demerge
Regional contractor sees income jump despite continuing to turn down work in order not to take on problem jobs
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NewsLaing O’Rourke appoints new boss of £2.5bn Europe business
Peter Lyons, firm’s head of specialist companies including Crown House and Expanded, taking up reins next February
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Features‘This industry is absolutely fine…’ Andrew Davies on the naysayers, rescuing Kier and what the firm plans to do next
The contractor’s chief executive goes in to bat for construction. It’s a good time to be in the business, he tells Dave Rogers
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NewsVistry contacting shareholders to address concerns over joint CEO and chair posts for Greg Fitzgerald
Worries raised over combined role housebuilder’s boss holds
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NewsPay for self-employed tradespeople hits new high
Earnings up by nearly 5% in London in October, with overall year-on-year pay rising by 4.8% across the UK
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NewsTetra Tech working on plans to build Western Europe’s largest solar farm in Oxfordshire
Scheme would span 14 sq km and produce more than 11 times more electriticity than the UK’s largest existing solar site
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NewsOfgem awards £2bn for offshore wind ‘electricity superhighway’
Regulator to help pay for Eastern Green Link 1 cable to reduce reliance on foreign power
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NewsUncertainty ahead of Budget blamed for construction output slowdown
But sector outperformed the rest of the economy, growing by 0.8% between July and September
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Features40 Under 40: meet the brightest and best of construction’s next generation
Building is spotlighting 40 people under the age of 40 who seem set to change the future of construction
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NewsReeves announces plans for UK pension ‘megafunds’ to boost investment
Chancellor says country must follow example of Canada and Australia
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CommentNever underestimate what construction can achieve
Building has launched its 40 Under 40 list of talented professionals – their stories of success remind us of what is possible
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NewsPlanning granted for major life sciences cluster in Whitechapel
East End scheme has been masterplanned by Allies and Morrison
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NewsMake’s City fringe office overhaul deferred over height policy breach
Councillors said scheme’s “tenuous” community benefits did not justify proposed two-storey roof extension
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NewsPlans submitted for 200-home student-led scheme in Camden
Regal and 4C Group bring forward second scheme working together