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NewsFully evolved: Darwin Centre, Natural History Museum
The Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum will next week open to the public – in what it claims is its most significant development since it moved to South Kensington in 1881
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NHS reports pre-election work glut
The value of schemes started under the Procure 21 health framework has almost doubled in the past year, according to exclusive figures from the Department of Health
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Gove accuses councils of profligacy
The Conservatives have accused local authorities of overspending on consultants when delivering the Building Schools for the Future programme
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NewsFresh eyes
Building’s Phase One networkers got a bird’s eye view of the new Spinningfields district and talks from the project team in Manchester last Thursday
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Latest construction appointments: 11 September 2009
Pinsent Masons’ projects and international construction group has named Raymond Beven partner in charge of the transport team
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NewsThe Cricklewood renaissance
Developers behind the £4.5bn Brent Cross and Cricklewood regeneration scheme have agreed to stump up £1bn in community benefits under a planning agreement with the council
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London boroughs shelve plans to reclaim Olympic planning
London boroughs have abandoned plans to bid to regain control of planning in the Olympic park fringes and Lower Lea Valley from the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation
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CommentDialogue of the deaf: Robert Adam on architects
It’s not just that architects don’t listen to clients or the public – they’re divided into camps that don’t listen to each other. Which is a pity, because they can have good ideas
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Metropolitan workshop
It’s still just about August and Building is doing the honours in a pub in Architects’ Gulch (aka Clerkenwell) with Metropolitan Workshop
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OFT drops cases against ‘up to a dozen’ firms
Charges have been dropped against a number of firms investigated as part of the Office of Fair Trading’s inquiry into tender malpractice in the construction industry, following concerns over the evidence offered by one witness
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Commercial activity rises for first time in two years
Commercial development activity has risen for the first time in nearly two years according to research from estate agent Savills
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NewsFirst on the Forth: Building Centre exhibition
This image of the construction of the Forth rail bridge in the 1880s is on display at the Building Centre in London as part of an exhibition celebrating 19th-century engineer Benjamin Baker
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Euston for high-speed terminal
Euston has emerged as the most likely London station for any north–south high-speed terminal, according to sources close to High Speed Two, the firm set up to examine the future of a link.
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New wave of council homes
The government has approved funding of £127m for 47 councils to build 2,000 social homes on 205 sites across the country.
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Pidgley takes the chair
Berkeley shareholders approved the appointment of former chief executive, Tony Pidgley, as chair on 9 September
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Former BP boss a contender for construction adviser job
Lord Browne, the former chief executive of BP, and Sir John Egan are among the latest names to be suggested to the business and innovation department for the role of chief construction adviser
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NewsFun for all: The Forum, University of Hertfordshire
The Forum, an entertainment venue for the University of Hertfordshire, has just opened
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Judge proposes test cases to resolve blacklist legal actions
Workers who are taking legal action against employers on the grounds that they were refused employment after being blacklisted may have their fate decided by three test cases in north-west England
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Join the Global Infrastructure Forum
Marta Gajencka (below left), the vice president of the European Investment bank that this week agreed to lend Crossrail £1bn, is to speak at Building’s Global Infrastructure Forum
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CommentThank you, Sir Stuart Lipton
Lipton won the intellectual argument that good design wasn’t a luxury limited to an arts project backed by a patron with more money than sense