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NewsSculptor recreates Tate Modern out of sugar cubes
Models of Tate Modern and NEO Bankside can be viewed by the public during the London Festival of Architecture
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NewsHousebuilders to be hit by affordable housing slump
Report warns social homes built this year could fall 65%, the lowest annual total for 20 years
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NewsBSF latest: Balfour wins £220m Derby deal and Interserve picks up £150m St Helens job
Building understands Vinci has lost out on both deals amid widespread uncertainty over future of £55bn schools programme
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NewsLend Lease bans Bovis from £40bn nuclear sector
Contractor backs out of EDF deal at last minute as Australian parent decides to shun ’unethical’ work
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NewsUnite official accuses union of collusion in blacklist
File seen by Building points to union complicity in providing information used to identify ’troublemakers’
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News'Usual suspects' linked to Scott Wilson takeover
A string of names has been linked to a bid for consulting engineer Scott Wilson, which confirmed it had received more than one takeover approach this week
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NewsCivil engineers alarmed at transport infrastructure hiatus
CECA warns on suspension of conditional approvals for all major local transport schemes
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NewsCrossrail budget squeezed as costs climb £1bn
Cost estimates for the £2bn overground sections of Crossrail have risen by 30% as the project’s senior management remains under pressure to cut costs on the £15.9bn scheme, writes Joey Gardiner.
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NewsGovernment to pull funding from zero-carbon housing body
Grant Shapps, the housing minister, has signalled his intention to halt government funding for an independent body that was set up to help deliver zero-carbon housing
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NewsShapps to rush out guidance as planning grinds to halt
Housing minister to bring in rule changes in ’next two months’ as up to 40 councils halt or delay plans
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Apollo buys maintenance firm FWA West for £2m
Property services group Apollo has bought Essex-based social housing maintenance firm FWA West in a deal estimated to be worth about £2m
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NewsWillmott Dixon goes hybrid to offset public sector cuts
Chief executive prepares for tougher times with plans to increase private development work
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CommentHousebuilding gets all shook up
With regional spatial strategies binned, is the recent housebuilding revival in jeopardy? And what about density targets?
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CommentSchools out
Michael Gove’s attack on BSF has angered the construction industry, but might he have a point?
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CommentArchitects – meet the real world
Many architects have evolved into service providers for giant PFI contractor consortiums. Which means that, if they lose their jobs, they can’t fend for themselves
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CommentQuentin Shears: The wages of synergy
“Usually, rebranding takes months, but the stationer’s on Potter Street had a half-price offer on business cards”
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CommentHansom: Sporting chances
The industry is getting in shape, with directors tackling the high jump, architects cycling through time, Boris jogging and islanders getting ready for a long swim. And some soccer tournament, apparently
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Comment
Architects for change
I found Building’s reporting of Paul Morrell’s comment piece (28 May, page 28) rather misleading
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CommentLeft in the lurch
Just when I thought that we had got over the Learning and Skills Council funding debacle, it appears that it is now the turn of the affordable housing sector to suffer the implications of having allocated or “promised” government funding withdrawn