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NewsChinese firms target UK market with counterfeit crane parts
Suppliers are selling lower quality parts through websites
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AA School Project View: Until 9 July
The Architectural Association School’s summer exhibition Projects Review is an opportunity to see the drawings, models, designs and minds of an emerging generation of architects. Hundreds of drawings, models, installations and photographs will be on display in a series of large galleries within the AA’s Georgian buildings alongside large ...
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CommentOrders figures support view that there is cause for concern in construction
New orders are falling now but this also presents problems for the future
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NewsMOD sets carbon challenge for contractors
New criteria set out for facilities management bidders
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NewsSheffield contractor CR Gibbs falls into administration
Administrators say firm was crippled by public sector slowdown
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NewsFour killed in Wales refinery blast
Explosion kills four maintenance workers and seriously injuries another
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CommentScottish arbitration: Join the rebellion
There’s a movement afoot in Scottish arbitration, and the mood is spreading south of the border. The demands are simple: total arbitration revolution
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FeaturesSupermarket sweep: Construction opportunities
Supermarkets are bucking the retail downturn, and now they’re either going supersize or micro. Whichever option they choose, there’s going to be a ton of construction work
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Client feedback: Let me explain (at length)
Client feedback helps people grow as professionals and is a mandatory part of the tendering process on public sector contracts. But how much is enough?
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FeaturesTesco's green specification process: Every little helps
Supermarkets don’t like to be beaten on price - or on their environmental credentials. To get ahead of the competition, Tesco is now testing every bit of green kit it can lay its hands on to build zero-carbon stores. Building reports on the savings
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FeaturesJeremy Horner: We will stay true to our values
When Davis Langdon merged with Aecom last August, many clients worried that the British institution would lose its identity. But for Jeremy Horner, the group’s global chief executive, things had to change in order to stay the same - and besides, it was never all that British anyway. Portrait by ...
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CommentMore than the tea run: Construction graduates on the dole
Too many construction graduates are on the dole. This is talent that our industry is going to need when the upturn comes. So let’s nurture it
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CommentLife's little struggles
The industry faces many challenges today, but this week highlights the more unusual hurdles. Lightning and leopards endanger architects, boats prove tricky to steer – and the RICS has trouble counting
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NewsDeloitte to compete with QSs on cost consultancy
Former Davis Langdon partner heads new business advising big City tenants and residential sector
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Jones Lang LaSalle and King Sturge sign merger
Deal will create the UK’s biggest property agency
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UK house prices up for May but still down for the year
May saw a rise of 0.3%, taking the average price of a home to £167,208
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NewsRegional development agencies: no man's land
When the government decided to axe regional development agencies, uncertainty over the future of their £446m portfolio of development sites nearly led to a disastrous fire sale. Having taken a u-turn on the issue, what are the coalition’s plans for the sites now?