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NewsLooking for new Croydon
Will Alsop has unveiled this slightly leftfield masterplan for Croydon’s regeneration.
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NewsAnother Washington cover-up
This museum courtyard designed by Foster + Partners and Buro Happold, opens tomorrow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
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Government rules out inquiry into Metronet ‘corruption’
The government has rejected calls for an inquiry into the collapse of Metronet following an MP’s claims of corruption.
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Eco-towns decision in February
The government has brought forward its timetable for deciding the location of the 10 eco-towns proposed by Gordon Brown, according to an inside source.
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Ball raises £300,000 for Unicef
The construction industry raised more than £300,000 for children’s charity Unicef at a ball that is one of its biggest corporate fundraising events.
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NewsHooray for Pinewood
The gatehouse at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire has been opened by the Queen.
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Social housing facelift
Carillion Property Services has secured a £20m contract with Aberdeen council to refurbish kitchens and bathrooms in its homes.
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NHS contract
A consortium led by John Laing has won a contract to build the £230m Pembury hospital in Kent.
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Gleeson care homes
Gleeson Building has been appointed design-and-build contractor on a £65m care home deal in Cheshire.
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80m college project
Aberdeen council has appointed quantity surveyor Doig + Smith to turn Marischal College into its headquarters.
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Dyball lands a heap
Dean & Dyball has won a £6m contract from New Earth Solutions to build a composting facility in Kent.
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Childrens Trust deal
Morgan Ashurst has been awarded a £4.8m contract to build a residential home for The Children’s Trust in Surrey.
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NewsSharewatch — Amec’s bull run starts to run down
Amec’s bullish run, during which its share price climbed from 400p in January to a year high of 849.5p earlier this month, has lost some of its steam in recent days.
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Small builders demand VAT cuts on eco refurbishments
Building work that contributes to ecological improvement of homes should be exempt from VAT, the body representing smaller building firms will say when it launches a Building a Greener Britain campaign this month.
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Green policy is ‘lip service’
Anne Power, a former urban taskforce member, has criticised the government’s progress over improving the environmental performance of Britain’s existing housing stock, saying it was barely even paying “lip service” to the problem.
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Porritt slams failure to reward sustainability best practice
Jonathon Porritt, the chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, has accused the government of failing to provide enough incentives to the construction industry over climate change.
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NewsLeit-werk rocks Blackpool
Leit-werk, an architectural practice in north London, has won a competition to redesign the St John’s precinct in the centre of Blackpool.
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House price see-saw
House prices rose in September, in spite of fears that they would fall, according to the latest government house price index.
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Capie for Corporation
Jim Bennett, senior research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank, has replaced Richard Capie as head of policy at The Housing Corporation.