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NewsGreen light for Croydon council offices
Planning permission given for buildin that will bring core council services under one roof
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NewsBAA's Heathrow head set to steer London Underground
Transport for London hires Mike Brown to take up role as managing director of the tube
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NewsThe battle of Little Britain: On board with Sheppard Robson
A snapped-off tiller, an injured knee, some serious seasickness and almost a lost spinnaker – a fun day out was had by all!
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Thank you, Sir Stuart Lipton
Cast your mind back 10 years, if you can. Compulsory competitive tendering was a way of life in the public sector. Design-and-build hospitals resembled a lot of site cabins bolted together; developers threw up office blocks that had the charm and civic presence of a shopping precinct. The role of ...
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The battle of Little Britain: on board with Sheppard Robson
My second Little Britain was even more memorable than my first. As someone who has always claimed never to get seasick, I have since realised you don't know the meaning of the word until you've been stuck down in the pit of a racing boat for 20 minutes being thrown ...
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Meanwhile, ITEM Club says recent house price rise is a false dawn
Today the Item Club released a special report on house prices that suggests a further fall in the first half of next year.It sees the recent rise as a false dawn and says it will be another five years before prices get close to the peak they reached in 2007.Like ...
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NewsSpeirs & Major light up Devonshire Square
Lighting helps Fletcher Priest's transformation of grade II listed business estate near Liverpool Street
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"House price falls are over" say futures traders
House price falls are over. That is the declaration made over the past two months by the futures market after two years of grim expectations.As recently as last December you could forward buy a notional average house three years hence for £106,153 on the futures market. That price is set ...
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NewsBoxing champ Joe Calzaghe opens Welsh bridge
Capita project manages and designs £3.2m Pont Calzaghe Bridge as part of Newbridge's regeneration
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NewsTreat recession recovery with caution
Europe is heading out of the recession but the UK has a long way to go, warns the ChandlerKBS partner
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NewsTaiwan Scot Co vs Masters Golf Company: Penalty or estimate of loss
Our Fenwick Elliott expert analyses a case in which a party failed to decide the intention of a contractual rate of interest for late payment
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NewsEC Harris completes first UK Infiniti 'retail centre'
Japanese luxury carmaker arrives in the UK following successful European launch
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ChandlerKBS announces promotion
Consultant promotes two to associates at the Welsh and Belfast offices
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NewsThe Patchetts vs Swimming Pool & Allied Trades Association: Online misrepresentation
This case is a warning to all those who market their business on the internet and make statements on websites as to what the consumer can and cannot expect from the company.
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NewsCapita project manager on ‘quietest building in the world’
Firm also designer on £11m Bristol University’s Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information
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NewsRICS launches construction insurance guidance
New guidance aimed at helping project managers, QSs and building surveyors
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HCA to release £300m for stalled housing schemes
A second phase of the Kickstart programme will re-allocate £225m from aborted projects
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NewsFuture of £695m Victoria tube station upgrade in doubt
Transport for London secures £1bn European loan to shore up Crossrail but other projects could suffer
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NewsRICS faces legal action over New Rules of Measurement
Construction Confederation furious at exclusion from document, which it says breaches its copyright