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Residential planning activity bounces back
The latest Government planning data on the face of it supports the view that there has been a bounce in activity within the house building sector.The topline data, released today, for residential planning decision show a fall in the September quarter compared with both the previous quarter and on the ...
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NewsDramatic exit of the year
Lee Polisano, the founder of the UK arm of US architect Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), left in September to set up his own firm PLP Architecture
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Fears grow over platform safety
Calls for safer working conditions on mobile work elevated platforms have been renewed after an accident last week on Westfield’s Stratford City site, next to the Olympic park, which left a worker in a critical condition
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BDP to buy architect Syna
BDP, the UK’s largest architectural firm, is in advanced negotiations to acquire Abu Dhabi-based practice Syna
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Wates to open in Abu Dhabi
Wates is banking on its record of delivering 35,000 school places in the UK to win work in Abu Dhabi
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NewsPrasad to overhaul Guy’s hospital tower
Sunand Prasad’s practice is set to be chosen to work on a radical refurbishment of Guy’s tower, part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital in London, Building understands, Penoyre & Prasad will design the 34-storey tower’s revamp, which is understood to be worth at least £30m
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NewsCampaign victory
In February, the Health and Safety Executive finally caved in to demand for a national register of safety checks on tower cranes
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NewsBroadway Malyan wins British school job in Abu Dhabi
Broadway Malyan has pipped Foster + Partners and Aedas to a commission for a British school in Abu Dhabi
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NewsHow the state helped – and didn’t
The public sector provided the vast bulk of any work there was in 2009, with fears that spending would slow before the election not holding true
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NewsA green revolution
The carbon-cutting campaign gathered momentum as the year went on, culminating in the Copenhagen summit of world leaders in December – and a last-minute appearance by US president Barack Obama
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NewsAn industry of ill-repute
The public’s opinion of construction took a hammering in 2009 with the Office of Fair Trading’s allegations of tender malpractice against 110 firms
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NewsHanging together
Construction’s disparate yet oddly indistinguishable trade bodies have, as noted by James Wates some years ago, long borne a worrying resemblance to Monty Python’s Judean People’s Front, the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean Popular People’s Front, at least in the eyes of Whitehall
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NewsA Right royal row
Prince Charles is well-known in for his vitriol towards all things carbuncular, but nobody could have predicted the row that kicked off when he criticised Richard Rogers’ designs for the Chelsea Barracks scheme in April
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Quotes of the year
"The crisis was predictable and probably avoidable. The final confusion in communication made a bad situation worse"Sir Andrew Foster, former chair of the audit commission, gives his verdict on the Learning and Skills Council debacle"He’s a menace to London"George Ferguson, former RIBA president, on Rafael Viñoly"I’ll stay on. A million ...
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NewsA trail of destruction
The year began on a bleak note when it was confirmed on 23 January that the UK had entered recession for the first time since the early nineties
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NewsThis man must be stopped
No hard hat, no high-vis jacket, no harness, and I suspect his reindeer were doing more than 10mph too