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Partnerships for Schools: How to get our fingers burnt
It may be more the season for barbecues than bonfires, but the trail of lighter fuel moved a bit closer to one of the most influential quangos in construction this week.Pressure has been mounting on Partnerships for Schools, the body in charge of more than £50bn of the education budget, ...
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NewsCliffhanger
Thanks to William Blake, who noticed these perilous clifftop repairs while on honeymoon in Corsica
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NewsForce of nature
This six-storey hotel is just one of the many buildings destroyed this week in Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot hit the country and the coastline of eastern China, killing at least 60 people
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Chelsea snubs Adam and Terry
Classicist architects Robert Adam and Quinlan Terry have been left off a longlist, unveiled this week, of masterplanners to design Qatari Diar’s Chelsea Barracks scheme in London
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Nuclear body presses forward with £15bn storage facility
The Nuclear Industry Association is seeking views on plans for a £15bn waste repository, signalling an escalation in efforts to tackle the problem of radioactive refuse in advance of the planned £40bn new-build programme
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NewsWebb site in development
Glenn Howells Architects’ 450-seat concert hall for the University of Birmingham has been given the go-ahead by university authorities
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Interserve profit up 19%
Support services and building group Interserve has posted a 4% rise in turnover from £913.6m to £951.2m for the six months to 30 June 2009
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Apollo turnover rises 22%
Social housing contractor Apollo has posted a 22% rise in turnover for the year to 31 March 2009 from £214.5m to £261.6m
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Panceltica liquidated
The trading arm of Qatar-based structural steel contractor Panceltica has formally gone into liquidation
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CommentWaterworld
Liquid leisure is the order of the day this summer, whether it’s sailing the ocean waves, watching a play in the pouring rain or quaffing ale. Some people are even spending their hols designing WCs
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NewsSecond time lucky: the Sigma II eco-house
When the Sigma eco-home at the BRE Innovation Park failed to hit the upper bands of the Code for Sustainable Homes, the blame was laid squarely on the building fabric. Now its maker is having another go
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NewsRMJM's Turkish tower: Tall order
Architect RMJM has unveiled the first images of its $1bn (£607m) mixed-use development in Istanbul
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EU rules could force out agency labour
New EU regulations on workers’ rights could spell the end of agency labour in the construction industry, experts are warning
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Housing for disabled people
The housing association Housing 21 has made an offer to buy Claimar Care, an organisation that provides home care to disabled people
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Alan Camp homes in Peckham
Wake Properties has completed eight homes in Peckham, south London, designed by Alan Camp
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Box Clever bags Bath job
Box Clever is to develop the Ralph Allen Yard site in Bath for the Homes and Communities Agency.
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NewsMore room: the demise of the ultra small flat
The housing boom led to the rise of the ultra-small flat. But the crash in the market and new space standards are putting pressure on developers to come up with roomier designs at higher densities – at least for now
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Copy-cat consultancy
McBains Cooper is a very happy construction consultancy this week. After all, we’ve just been handed the biggest piece of flattery I think we’ve ever had