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  • Glenn Howells
    News

    £120m Manchester scheme gets green light

    2010-02-12T13:25:00Z

    Glenn Howells' One St Peter's Square will be a 270,000ft2 mixed-use retail and leisure complex

  • Fuel cells
    News

    £7m invested in fuel cell development

    2010-02-12T11:16:00Z

    Technology Strategy Board to fund 15 demonstration projects for both transport and stationary applications

  • Silverstone
    News

    Images: British Grand Prix to hit new Silverstone circuit

    2010-02-12T08:44:00Z

    Architect Populous says ‘super-fast’ circuit was designed to help racing fans get closer to the action

  • Steve Morgan
    News

    Redrow boss slams Tory localization plans

    2010-02-12T08:32:00Z

    Steve Morgan claims scrapping regional planning targets is like 'putting mice in charge of the cheese cupboard'

  • News

    Two Cornwall firms cease trading

    2010-02-12T13:53:00Z

    Darren Healey Building Contractors and Highgrove Homes (South West) had bad debt of £800,000

  • Jarvis
    News

    Jarvis hires former Laing O'Rourke director

    2010-02-12T13:43:00Z

    Phillips Price to become managing director of rail and plant divisions

  • Features

    Acoustic lighting rafts

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    More than 1,700m of SAS International System 600 acoustic lighting rafts, incorporating HCP radiant heating panels, have been installed at the Trent Valley Academy in Lincolnshire

  • Healey revealed £60m fund this week
    News

    Four eco-towns to share £60m for show homes

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Government grants funds for 600 homes, but fears persist over feasibility of programme

  • News

    Construction marks seventh quarter of contraction

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Industry blames pre-election nerves and rising costs for winter dip in workload and profits

  • Features

    Dual shower

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Rada has added to its Sense range of digital water control systems with the introduction of the Sense Dual Shower T3

  • News

    Happy new year for Balfour as it dominates in January

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Barometer: Blackburn schools win takes firm to top of construction list for first time in eight months

  • Features

    Seamless lighting

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Whitegoods has supplied integrated lighting for this modern cricket pavilion designed by architect John Pawson, for St Edward’s School in Oxford

  • News

    Legal challenge stalls £200m LSC payment

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    The Learning and Skills Council is delaying allocating £200m of funding for stalled college projects because of a legal challenge over its handling of the building programme, writes Sarah Richardson

  • Comment

    RICS sees workload slump deeper in late 2009 - providing more fare for the double-dippers

    2010-02-12T13:26:00Z

    It’s tempting to see the latest construction market survey by the surveyors’ body RICS as yet more evidence of a likely double dip in construction – however you want to define that.And I’m not going to sit here and argue against that possibility.But there is a case for some cautious ...

  • Aldar’s Patrick Bell, in front of the developer’s discus-shaped headquarters at Al Raha Beach
    News

    ‘It’s good to slow down’: Aldar at Al Raha Beach

    2010-02-12T00:34:00Z

    Abu Dhabi developer Aldar is toning down the extravagance at Al Raha Beach, its 11km-long waterfront paradise. Patrick Bell, its head of pre-construction, tells Thomas Lane why that’s no bad thing

  • News

    Wall of water

    2010-02-12T00:14:00Z

    Jack Beddall spotted this peculiar contraption from his office in Wembley

  • Comment

    Help us out

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    I found Building’s report from the Construction Skills Network a depressing read (“Construction will be ‘in recession till 2011,’” 27 January, building.co.uk)

  • Comment

    Top security

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    I have read with interest the response in these pages to the fires at the Green Acre Homes’ Peckham and Camberwell building sites, and how many people seem to believe that the security issues surrounding these fires can be addressed with a generic solution

  • This belvoir is very elgoir to spot any subbing mistakes, too
    Comment

    Dam!

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    “Beaver Castle”? Where, pray, is that?

  • Comment

    In the mix

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Your coverage of our results on page 16 of last Friday’s issue, 5 February, was led by a most unfortunate sub-headline that stated that Countryside Properties “rues its exposure to mixed-tenure regeneration market”