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NewsGlen Howells Architects: In the Lime light
Glenn Howells Architects has redesigned the public square outside Liverpool Lime Street Station
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Aquatics centre costs up £11m
The cost of the Olympic aquatics centre has risen by a further £11m because of attempts to speed up construction to make up for earlier delays, and concerns over whether it will be warm enough for competitors
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NewsNeil Murphy 1936-2010
Neil Murphy MBE, the editor of Building from 1974-84, passed away last week aged 74 after a year-long battle with cancer
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NewsCameron's trade visit helps UK firms land China work
Benoy, Arup and David Lock win lucrative contracts following prime minister’s mission
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NewsAbu Dhabi eco city may rely on non-renewable power sources
Abu Dhabi eco-city Masdar may not be fully powered by renewable energy as budget constraints hit the scope of the project
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CommentAre contractors putting the squeeze on the supply chain?
In a disturbing trend subcontractors are being asked to reduce costs and even make upfront payments or risk being removed from main contractors’ supplier lists. Coercion or market reality?
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What went wrong at Rok? The City view
“Hindsight is a wonderful thing,” says Andrew Brown, an analyst at Panmure Gordon, “but Rok’s first major profit warning was two years ago, related to the slowdown in their regional contracting business.”
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Regional plans ruling will not be challenged
The government will not appeal a High Court ruling this week that the communities secretary Eric Pickles acted unlawfully in scrapping the regional plans which set housing targets across councils in England
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Potters Bar firms prosecuted
Jarvis and Network Rail will be prosecuted over the Potters Bar rail disaster, which killed seven people in 2002 after a train derailed.
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Timber frame loses popularity
Timber frame’s share of the new build housing market dropped from 75% to 68% in Scotland during 2009
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CommentWhat’s going on?
The ’resurgence in construction activity’ is proving difficult to detect in the real world. And even if growth does take off, it’ll be a long time before we feel the benefit
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CommentQuentin Shears: Evolve or die!
For almost my entire career, we quantity surveyors have been told that we must evolve or die. This has never really bothered me, although I’d hate to think of the chain ending with me and Richard Steer.
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Circle line
In the 1991 recession, I joined the last London Underground major project team for the Jubilee line extension.
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SFO means business
It is sometimes said compliance with the new Bribery Act is impractical in the construction sector (“Where the buck stops”, 29 October, page 34)
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Don't speak too soon
This week’s latest survey from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (Cips) confirms recent warnings from the Scottish Building Federation that the rise in construction output witnessed in the early part of this year was never going to last
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NewsPrivate sector steps in to fill gap left by public work
Business barometer: Willmott Dixon tops the chart buoyed by £41m public sector contract
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CommentMakes scents
I read your article “Galliford bags sewage job” (2 November, building.co.uk). There is something I have been banging on about for years. I have written several letters to various bodies about this issue: simply that the largest waste water facility in Europe must produce one hell of a lot of ...
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Outlook: gloomy
I agree that the industry is in decline. I thought a trade would serve me for life but now with an ever-increasing amount of red tape I feel that many people like me would opt for another career
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CommentDouble act
Mark Hammond says: “These men in Dubrovnik were making quite a good job of pointing the ridge tiles, but it makes you shudder to think how they got up there, or down again!”