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FeaturesCost model: School refurbishment
Continuing this week’s focus on the renewal of the school estate, Simon Rawlinson and Paul Zuccherelli of Davis Langdon review one of the biggest challenges facing the BSF programme
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NewsHerzog’s house: Basel showroom
Last week, Herzog & de Meuron reopened its London office and the extension of Tate Modern began in earnest
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Worst trading conditions ever recorded for civil engineers
The latest Civil Engineering Contractors Association workload survey has found the worst trading conditions ever recorded
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NewsKind hearts and minarets: Brick Lane tower
This minaret-like structure is part of a scheme to celebrate the history of east London
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NewsAecom closes in on DL deal
US engineer Aecom was this week closing in on a deal to take over Davis Langdon, according to sources close to the talks
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Morgan Ashurst snaps up £50m Gatwick contract
Morgan Ashurst has secured the second phase of the £50m North Terminal Extension at Gatwick airport
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NewsHigh esteem
These are the first images of the 1,359-pupil Archbishop Sentamu Academy, which is one of the first two schemes on the £400m Hull Building Schools for the Future programme
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Tube Lines hits back at mayor in funding row
Tube Lines has rubbished London mayor Boris Johnson’s claim that it can meet the potential £400m shortfall in funding for the next seven-and-a-half years of its PPP contract
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CIOB survey: recruit leaders from outside construction
Recruiting managers from other industries could be the answer to plugging leadership gaps in construction, according to a survey of construction managers by the Chartered Institute of Building
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NewsPete’s place
This £50m, 25,000m2 office building, designed by Glenn Howells Architects, has been given planning permission
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NewsAnyone for bridge?
Powell-Williams Architects and engineering consultant Buro Happold have won a European design competition for a new pedestrian bridge in the northern Portuguese town of Aveiro
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VT Mouchel deal ‘dead in the water’
City analysts say VT Group’s takeover bid for Mouchel looks dead in the water after support services firm Babcock tabled a surprise offer for VT on Monday
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Aldar lost £87m in last quarter of 2009
Abu Dhabi’s biggest developer, Aldar Properties, has announced its first ever quarterly loss, totalling more than 500m dirhams (£87m) for the last three months of 2009
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Latest construction appointments - 19 February 2010
Skanska UK has promoted Paul Chandler to executive vice president. Paul Heather has been made managing director of Skanska Construction, and Gary Clifford and Simon Caron have become operations directors
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NewsComing soon
Temple Circus, a new office scheme in central Bristol for Circus Developments, has just received planning consent
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FeaturesWhat’s awaiting Mr Wates
ConstructionSkills is in crisis: a trade federation is trying to jump ship, 250 jobs are under threat and grants are set to be slashed by a third. Enter James Wates … Sophie Griffiths reports on what lies in store for the training body’s new chairman
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NewsCitywatch: Back home
Steve Morgan, the returning chairman of Redrow, kept journalists, analysts and investors entertained last week with his take on the planning system, Tory housing policy and the reasons he bought his firm back last year
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CommentHave wig, will travel
The increasingly mobile judges of the TCC are happy to do you a trial in the cheapest, most convenient part of the country. But how do you decide where that is?
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Nuclear new-build: Proceed (with caution)
The nuclear new-build programme has a lot to offer, as long as you can navigate the regulatory and contractual minefield surrounding it