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Inbox: Set in motion
Readers offer a solution to propel feed-in tariffs to success, draw up a plan to help small builders and extol the virtues of forward-thinking projects such as the McLaren factory
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Construction appointments: 6 January 2012
This week,Vauxhall Nine Elms regeneration scheme and Dorsey & Whitney are among firms have made new appointments
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NewsMivan's wins £3.5m job on luxury London hotel
Foster + Partners-designed hotel in Covent Garden will open in time for the Olympics
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CommentMy digital life ... Gareth Moores
An app that tells you where the nearest Starbucks is is this managing director’s vice …
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FeaturesPredictions for 2012: The year of the groundhog
So what does 2012 have in store? Well, there’s the Olympics, of course, and some potentially interesting developments in nuclear power and infrastructure. But mostly it will be a year of battening down the hatches. There will be recklessly low bids for work, some firms will go under, others will ...
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FeaturesCanada's bold new library: Can we borrow it?
A city near Vancouver has taken a bold approach with its new public library - throwing out traditional study spaces and pioneering design by social media. Could it provide a template for our own beleaguered institutions? Ike Ijeh reports
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CommentThe practices of funders' lawyers in 2011
Funders’ lawyers are imposing onerous terms on contractors, passing them off as ‘market standard’. Here’s the kind of shenanigans they got up to last year
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NewsSolar installations collapse as FIT subsidy cut bites
Installations fall two thirds in last week of 2011 compared with 2010, government figures reveal
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NewsRoll-out of heat pumps in doubt thanks to BRE proposals
Changes to regs would see heat pumps gain less credit for saving carbon than at present
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NewsCarillion set for £100m Canadian highway job
Contractor poised to maintain highway in the London Ontario area
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NewsOne-bedroom hotel on South Bank opens for 2012
David Kohn Architects’ A Room for London is part of the London 2012 Festival
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NewsSheppard Robson scheme in doubt
Boris Johnson to commission review of Hammersmith scheme, examining the impact of reducing its height
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NewsUK's first Passivhaus schools set for accreditation
Passivhaus design will save 80% on energy at the two schools in Wolverhampton
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NewsDeveloper says '9/11 scheme' will go ahead
Developer of Seoul twin-tower project that seems to recall images of 9/11 insists scheme will go ahead as planned
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NewsTwo developers compete for major Chesterfield scheme
Preferred partner to be announced on Northern Gateway project by March
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NewsHilson Moran independent after management takeover
Engineering consultancy that worked on the Athletes Village has become independent after management buyout
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NewsBalfour Beatty wins £750m National Grid job
Contractor secures extension of existing agreement for the next five years
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NewsHVCA rebrands and widens remit to all M&E contractors
Move likely to damage relationships with rival trade federation the ECA
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NewsGovernment mulls Green Deal specialists for old homes
Plan considered amid growing fears that eco-upgrades could damage older housing stock