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Latest construction appointments: 13 November 2009
Mark Blackwell has become principal at Aecom Design + Planning (formerly EDAW Aecom) and Vivien Fairlamb has rejoined Aecom’s sustainable development group in London
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Universities cut back on building over funding fears
Institutions’ £3bn a year construction spend in jeopardy as budgets are slashed by up to 40%
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Great Danes: Olafur Eliasson's Copenhagen bridge
Danish-Icelandic artist has designed this bridge for Copenhagen’s inner harbour
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Rand collapse costs 200 jobs
Rand Group, a £40m-turnover Lincolnshire-based firm, has gone into administration with the loss of up to 200 jobs
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Half full, not half empty
At the British Council of Shopping Centres conference this week, the talk was of the shortage of retail space and the need to start building fairly soon to meet demand in four years’ time
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Materials sales continue to fall
Mineral Products Association calls on government for public investment as aggregate and cement sales remain 'extremely low'
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Leicester school scoops top gong in BSF awards
Beaumont Leys school joins list of winners in Excellence in BSF Awards 2009
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Network Rail to spend £3.25bn on station refurbishment
Operator announces massive commitment over five-year period
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Balfour Beatty snaps up interior construction contractor
UK firm boosts US expansion by £15m acquisition of Texan firm SpawMaxwell
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Olympics cost review could put staff in the firing line
ODA to scrutinise project manager CLM’s fees across the board in further bid to make savings
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Bellway loses beauty contest
Beautician Gerorgina Blackwell wins £75,000 compensation in High Court in row over access rights
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Laing O’Rourke chief quits as founder Ray takes control
News of senior management revamp draws line under Tony Douglas’ lengthy negotiations to stay on
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Balfour and Carillion compete for Southampton schools
Consortiums compete for first stage of £35m academy programme
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Contractors line up against Tory HSE plan
Costain director warns plans to deny safety inspectors site access could cost firms £150k
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London property developer fined £10k for safety breaches
Lahrie Mohamed pleaded guilty to putting workers at risk on two schemes
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‘Whistleblower’ to sue Balfour Beatty for unfair dismissal
A former Balfour Beatty employee has been given the go-ahead by a judge to press a claim of up to £300,000 for unfair dismissal under the Whistleblowers Act
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Industry slams payment law plans
A new group has been created out of the soon-to-be dissolved Construction Confederation to lobby parliament over the poor drafting of payment clauses in the Construction Bill
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Westfield centre director to work on Shard
The former construction director of London’s Westfield shopping centre has been brought in to help run Sellar Properties’ £2bn London Bridge Quarter development
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Nuclear sector calls for government attention
Calls for the government to beef up financial support for the nuclear industry were growing this week as energy ministers announced plans to plough up to £9.5bn into clean coal