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Cutty Sark boost
The fire-damaged Cutty Sark received £11m towards restoration from the Heritage Lottery. Wilkinson Eyre and Pringle Brandon’s Mary Rose Museum won a £21m grant.
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261m order book
Renew says it has a £261m order book and is confident of reporting full-year results in line with expectations.
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Wilson James deal
Wilson James has been awarded a £900,000 contract by Bovis Lend Lease to provide logistical support at the Chiswick Park Building 9 project in west London.
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Tradeswomen wanted
The government plans a National Apprenticeship Service to oversee the qualification of, and encourage female apprentices “to look at trades concerned with construction”.
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NewsKoolhaas lands a whopper
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture has revealed its final design for a science centre and aquarium at Hamburg’s HafenCity complex.
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Subcontractor clashes with union over job cuts
Union officials are to take subcontractor Mechanical Installations International to an industrial tribunal after more than 70 workers were laid off from one of its schemes.
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Pinnacle demolition continues
Demolition work at the £500m Pinnacle in the City of London will not be affected by a High Court injunction setting limits to the vibration caused.
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NewsThe Simpsons
Ian Simpson Architects’ Owen Street development has been given the green light by Manchester council.
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Olympic Legacy body set up
A public body is to be set up to drive the regeneration legacy of the Olympic Games, the London Development Agency (LDA) confirmed this week.
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EC Harris launches investor rescue service after credit crunch
EC Harris has launched a debt recovery service for investors in schemes that run into financial difficulties as a result of the credit crunch.
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NewsTate Tropicale
The Maison Tropicale is under construction outside Tate Modern on the South Bank of the Thames.
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HVCA to compile labour agency list
The Heating and Ventilating Contractors Association is pushing ahead with plans to create an approved list of labour agencies.
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NewsThe great Danish hospital
A team including architects Avanti, CF Møller Architects and Cubo Arkitekter has won a contract to design the largest hospital in Denmark.
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NewsFresh Lime
These are the first images of Glenn Howells’ revamped design for Liverpool Lime Street station.
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NewsSieze the contract!
Robert AM Stern Architects has won a competition to design the Tour Carpe Diem in Paris.
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FeaturesQuite a departure
It’s finally here, and it’s quite unlike any other airport experience in the world. Over the next five pages, Martin Spring imagines what passengers will make of Richard Rogers’ monumental Heathrow Terminal 5. Then, on page 50, we ask whether this groundbreaking project really has changed the construction industry for ...
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Comment
The softly, softly approach
Regarding the article “Housebuilders scramble to tackle credit crunch crisis” (18 January, page 9), while it is right that all organisations – clients, housebuilders, local authorities – have a focus on cost reduction, it is important to consider how best to go about it.
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No excuses
The government has taken considerable flak for its plans to reduce Health and Safety Executive (HSE) funding, but the construction industry mustn’t this as an excuse for rising accident and death rates. After all, this is an industry-wide responsibility.