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NewsManchester City stadium regeneration gets green light
Job will include expansion of stadium and construction of new facilities in surrounding area
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NewsLU to save schemes despite £460m blow
London Underground has said it is not currently considering any reduction to its major works programme, despite being asked to pay the Tube Lines consortium £460m more than it says it can afford
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NewsCyril Sweett chairman to retire in September
New international director appointed as Ives declares intention to stand down after 40 years at company
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NewsTesco sends design and QS work to India
Fears raised over future of UK supply chain as supermarket giant outsources early project work
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NewsBlackfriars station hit by four-month delay
The completion of Blackfriars station, one of the main projects on the upgrade of the Thameslink rail line, has been put back four months until spring 2012
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NewsChilling observation: Jodrell Bank Observatory
Plans have been submitted to build this visitor centre at the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory
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NewsLift us up where we belong
Steve Demuth of Bailey Partnership spotted this creative contraption in a Cornish village
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Features
The tracker: One step at a time
Construction activity and orders are still inching towards growth – even if the civil engineering sector experienced its quietest ever month in January
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CommentThe man from the ministry
Who was also the client from hell, asked Gus Alexander to refurbish his flat. He then proceeded to give a masterclass in arrogance and incompetence. Here’s what happened
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CommentWonders & Blunders with Dean Webster
The Cyril Sweett boss has a solar epiphany on a Middle Eastern tower but another in London casts a long shadow on a park
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CommentHansom the french job
What starts with a communication failure and some missing property can quickly descend into gunfire in Paris, a team driving unlikely vehicles and a high-speed chase across France. What a cliffhanger!
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CommentPFI and the Panama Canal
I read your article on the Tories’ plan to lift the lid on PFI deals (26 February, page 14) and I have to say I think they are getting this one wrong and should look at the history of PFI
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Comment
A success story
Thank you for recently bringing to our attention the existence of the Graduate Talent Pool website (29 January, page 32)
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Comment
Can’t see the wood
In the context of your story about insurers threatening to pull cover for timber frame (5 March, page 11) you give the impression that six people died in a timber frame building as result of a fire in a housing block in Peckham in November
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Comment
Ageing gracefully
Housebuilders need to make profit to have sustainable businesses and the resources to build homes (5 March, leader, page 3) but they risk casting themselves as the bad boys if they resist measures to address the needs of our rapidly ageing population
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Comment
Young people today
The recent announcement that the Constructionarium, the UK’s only dedicated site-based training centre for university students could be forced to close as a direct result of a lack of government funding (5 March, page 10) is a worrying sign for the future of our industry
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FeaturesGo figure: The future of infrastructure spending
Treasury secretary Ian Pearson gives Joey Gardiner a lesson in abstract mathematics
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CommentWe’re not there yet
Adjudication may be more popular than ever, but the recession has shown that it still has flaws – as does the rest of the Construction Act
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CommentSomething quite atrocious
A party that thinks an adjudicator has no jurisdiction can save money and bother by simply waiting until the end before making a song and dance about it