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FeaturesSpotlights
Zumtobel’s new Arcos spotlight and wallwasher system provides architects and designers with a complete range of spotlights for specification in museums, art galleries and shops.
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Athletes’ village
Lend Lease has appointed architects Caruso St John, dRMM, Denton Corker Marshall, DSDHA, Eric Parry, Ian Ritchie, and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands to help design the £2bn Athletes’ village for the 2012 Olympics.
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Scottish Futures Trust
The Scottish Builders Federation has warned the SNP government that proposals to establish a Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) to replace PFI and PPP on public sector projects will delay infrastructure schemes.
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Egan survey
Constructing Excellence wants your views on the industry response to the targets in Sir John Egan’s 1998 report, Rethinking Construction.
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CommentWhat happens in the second act?
After what has seemed like endless dithering on the part of the government, and endless lobbying campaigns by the interested parties, the reform of the 1996 Construction Act is finally on its way.
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NewsJoin the Kew
Marks Barfield’s treetop walkway is to open at Kew Gardens in west London tomorrow.
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Union warns councils of job losses
Union official Bob Blackman has urged council to “think carefully” before removing from their tender lists companies that are being investigated by the OFT for price-rigging .
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Egan: housebuilders have done ‘absolutely nothing’ to improve
Sir John Egan has attacked housebuilders for not implementing the recommendations in his Rethinking Construction report.
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NewsWalking the plank
Workers solve the tricky problem of accessing the roof valley without a ladder by using next door's bay window
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NewsRogers: eco towns not sustainable
Labour peer says eco-town plans 'one of the biggest mistakes government could make'
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NewsTurner & Townsend to project-manage the Shard
Consultant drafted in to strengthen team as Mace tries to work out how much tower will cost
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News'Excellent' response to construction Diploma
Construction diploma is 'oversubscribed' in some areas though takeup by students of all Diplomas is lower than expected
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ConstructionSkills appoints new chief executive
Mark Farrar to take over from Peter Lobban as chief executive this summer
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Strike called by construction workers in Scotland
Building maintenance and housing workers employed by councils to protest at below inflation pay rises
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Work on Olympic stadium starts three months early
Prime minister and mayor meet building workers in site visit to Olympic Park
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NewsBalfour Beatty wins Texas toll road job
Joint venture awarded £167m design and build contract in USA
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Builder jailed for manslaughter after botched work caused death
Carbon monoxide death after botched chimney work blocked gas flue leads to three-and-half-year jail term
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Credit crunch prompts wave of Wolseley job cuts
European job losses to follow US cuts as part of materials group's restructuring as profit falls 30%
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A fall but no collapse in buy-to-let borrowers
The latest figures on buy-to let mortgages from the Council of Mortgages Lenders do provide some comfort for house builders tackling an increasingly tough market.There were fears that buy-to-let borrowing would collapse with the first whiff of a slowdown in house prices, but the figures suggest otherwise. The figures suggest ...