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NewsMace targets new work to beat tough market in 2013
Firm defies market gloom with 17% turnover rise and targets three or four big wins
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NewsCyril Sweett blames UK for profit warning
Full year results lower than expected due to tough UK conditions
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NewsHill subsidiary wins two major Brazilian contracts
Engineering S.A. is project manager on one of the largest retail centres in Brazil
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NewsToll roads could replace cancelled schemes
Department for transport gives warm reception to private investment to replace cancelled projects
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CommentConstruction output is heading into decline, but how fast and how far?
The numbers look grim but we have to dig a bit deeper before we panic
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NewsEC Harris announces new partner
Consultant hires partner in the asset investment and finance team responsible for European growth
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NewsCapita Symonds hires associate director
New recruit for firm’s strategic property and workplace projects team
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NewsLDA reveals Silvertown Quays shortlist
Developers invited to submit outline proposals for £1.5bn project by 10 October
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FeaturesView from my office: John Rawlinson
The Faithful+Gould regional director overlooks Birmingham’s last decade iconic schemes
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NewsDCLG planning myth-busting guide criticised
New guide accused of ‘misrepresenting the planning system’
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CommentRICS predicts the year ahead in construction
A senior economist at the RICS looks at the year ahead for the industry
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NewsUK construction output falls 2.8% in July
ONS releases figures showing 3.3% decline compated to July 2010
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NewsAtkins bouyed by Middle East operations
Growing infrastructure investment in Middle East outweighs challenging UK market
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FeaturesSchool building programmes: Figure it out
Michael has £2bn of PFI money for capital spending on schools. But he also has to update the school estate and provide extra pupil places. How much more money will he need? And - for extra marks - where will it come from? Sarah Richardson works out some possible answersܯ
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CommentShifting standards: new JCT contracts
New standard form JCT contracts are on their way, in line with the government’s construction strategy. But don’t worry, help is at hand to understand the changes
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CommentProviding schools: Creative classes
We don’t have enough places for kids in the schools their parents want. A new approach is needed: adapting other public buildings for education and bringing in private help to show us how
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CommentMy digital life…Diba Salam
Diba wants to avoid emails, Dom Joly moments and electro funck music
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CommentSchools crisis: ‘We have a responsibility to school our children’
Barking and Dagenham has to be the council the worst affected by the demise of the Building Schools for the Future programme. We look at the impact on pupils and construction in a deprived east London borough that is fast running out of space
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CommentHansom: Look at me!
Several ‘interesting’ ideas vie for our attention this week as Arup envisages a life-size Scalextric set, Miller Homes drafts in Keith Chegwin and German architects decide scaffolding should be more pretty
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NewsWeston Homes boss blasts government for axed project
Scheme to build 750 flats in Essex abandoned after social landlord cuts funding for 180 homes