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  • News

    Sweett wins TfL deal

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Cyril Sweett has been appointed to Transport for London’s engineering and project management framework

  • News

    Pochin slides into red

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Listed builder and developer Pochin’s has reported a half-year loss of £4.4m on turnover of £47.5m

  • News

    Laing names chair

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    PFI investment firm John Laing has appointed Phil Nolan independent non-executive chairman

  • News

    TfL advisory body

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Transport for London is calling for individual consultants and project managers to form an independent panel to advise on its entire investment programme

  • News

    US slump continues

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Spending on construction in the US fell for the seventh month in November

  • News

    Deloitte deal ‘will start feeding frenzy’

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Deloitte’s acquisition of Drivers Jonas could mark the beginning of a round of takeovers in the consultancy sector that could remove “up to 30% of firms”

  • News

    560,000 affordable homes at risk

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    The National Housing Federation has warned that plans to build more than half a million affordable homes over the next decade could be axed because of government spending cuts

  • News

    More Malling

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Killby & Gayford has completed a £750,000 infirmary and refectory at Malling abbey in Kent. The job involved extending a Benedictine abbey that was founded in 1090. The design was by Thomas Ford & Partners, the QS was Sawyer & Fisher and the M&E engineer was MCA Consulting.Send your project ...

  • News

    Williams leaves F+A

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Andrew Williams has left Franklin + Andrews, the cost consultancy owned by Mott MacDonald, where he was development director

  • News

    Rio deal for RLB

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Rider Levett Bucknall is providing cost management advice on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics

  • News

    0.9% tender price fall

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Tender prices fell by 0.9% in the third quarter of last year, the seventh consecutive quarter of declines, according to data from the RICS

  • News

    The wilds of Chester: Proctor and Matthews' biodome

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Working with engineer Aecom and consultant Barton Willmore, architect Proctor and Matthews has designed a gigantic biodome for Chester Zoo

  • News

    EDF: We will build four nuclear power stations by 2025

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    EDF intends to have completed four nuclear power stations in the UK by 2025, it told MPs this week

  • News

    Government to approve 36 model eco-schools in England

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    The government is set to approve plans to build four exemplary zero-carbon schools in each of the nine regions of England by 2016

  • News

    Wheels of steel: Olympic velodrome

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Work has been completed on the steel structure of the £80m London 2012 velodrome at the Olympic park in east London

  • Comment

    Government intern system: Slow learners

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Have you ever logged on to graduatetalentpool.direct.gov.uk?

  • Features

    What it costs: Tiled cladding

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Tiles, shingles and slate can provide traditional and thermally efficient covering for external walls. Peter Mayer of BLP Insurance considers the options

  • Features

    Putting on the glitz: Brass cladding

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    More and more architects, enamoured of the golden lustre of brass, are choosing it as a cladding material, while others love it just because of the way it weathers

  • Features

    Panel system

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Eurobond’s composite panel system has been used on an £11m “Lifestyle” building at Stoke-on-Trent college’s Cauldon Campus

  • Features

    Movers and makers

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Solar Gard, which makes solar control films, has launched the Capsol audit tool, which measures the impact of solar gain on office buildings. Capsol, and Solar Gard’s complementary consulting service, can be used to predict the results of retrofitting solar control window film