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Two housing schemes scrapped in Cambridgeshire
Public bodies have welcomed the decisions that look to have sounded the death knell for two new settlements of 13,000 homes around Cambridge.
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NewsThe Heart of the matter
Developer First Base has gained planning permission for this 645-home mixed-use scheme on the site of the former Greenwich district hospital in south-east London.
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FeaturesWhere we’re at … the 2012 London Olympics
This is the space – an area as vast as Hyde Park – that has been cleared to make way for the Olympic park.
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FeaturesSun, sea and salt extraction
A British inventor, architect and services engineer have devised a system that could produce food, fresh water and energy solely through the use of solar power.
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Rider Levett Bucknall to set up network to win work in Europe
Rider Levett Bucknall is to set up a European consultancy network to drive expansion on the Continent.
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FeaturesOn your marks: Countdown to 2012, London's Olympic stadium
No false starts here. Construction at London’s 80,000-seater Olympic stadium has got off faster than Usain Bolt (well, almost). Martin Spring watches the sprint towards that now famous deadline
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Big shoes to fill
China's jaw-dropping start to the Beijing Games raised the bar for Olympic opening ceremonies.
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CommentDivided we stand
I've never heard such a load of old rubbish as your story “Northerners should move south, says think tank” in my entire life.
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No need for back-up
I am surprised to see Paul Moore trying to revive the idea that every wind turbine needs a fossil fuel back-up to be kept running at full capacity (29 August, page 28) when research into intermittent generation by the UK Energy Research Council is easily accessible.
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Cover pricing and cover-ups
Building’s leader returns to the OFT enquiry (15 August, page 3). I’m sorry to have to return to the simple suggestion I made regarding cover pricing.
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FeaturesA year in the life of the borrowers: the credit crunch one year on
Twelve months on from Northern Rock, Tom Bill looks back at how an unprecedented series of events unfolded, leaving most construction firms residing in the pockets of their clients and bank managers …
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O’Keefe and Cantillon lock horns over hotel scheme
O’ Keefe Construction is suing contractor Cantillon for £1.4m in a dispute over payment for its work on a luxury hotel on the site of the first ever radio broadcast.
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MPs: management is key to PFI
PFI projects are not providing value for money because they are being “undermanaged” by public sector managers, MPs have told the government.
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Survey exposes ignorance about site waste regulations
Only 40% of contractors understand what they are meant to do with site waste despite the introduction of swingeing new regulations, backed up with unlimited fines, in April.
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NewsMuseum piece: Darwin Centre
This eight-storey, windowless cocoon by Danish architect CF Moller is the centrepiece of the £78m, 16,000m2 second phase of the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum in London.
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Future of Architecture Week in balance after review
The future of Architecture Week remains in doubt after Arts Council England (ACE) announced it would delay its decision on continuing the festival.
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Second site death inquiry launched
The government has confirmed it is to launch its second inquiry into deaths in the construction industry in two years in the week that another foreign worker died on a UK construction site.
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NewsParadise found
Landscape architects Gustafson Porter and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol are to design the Venice Biennale’s first large-scale landscape installation on the grounds of a former nunnery.
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NewsFire alarm
Fire raged this week at the massive 1,500-room Atlantis luxury hotel on the man-made Palm Jumeirah island in Dubai, just three weeks before it was due to open.