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    Hackney housing

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Allenbuild has won a £15.5m contract to build social housing and retail space in Hackney, east London, for Metropolitan Housing Trust.

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    Castleoak's deals

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Castleoak, the Cardiff-based care home specialist, has won two contracts totalling £10m, one in Maidenhead, Buckinghamshire, and one in Thame, Oxfordshire.

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    Spanish revamp

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Spanish developer Alcaidesa Servicios, in which Costain has a 50% stake, has won consent to build a marina and retail facilities at La Línea de la Concepción, on the Gibraltar border.

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    Correction

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Last week we incorrectly stated that Michael Sullivan, an RICS official, was a partner at Rider Levett Bucknall.

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    Black beauty

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    HBG has been appointed as contractor on the £120m Mann Island scheme on Liverpool’s waterfront.

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    International standard to stamp out conflicting lifecycle costs

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    An international standard that will bring consistency to lifecycle costing for buildings is to be issued in the next few months.

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    Pardon me, boy

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    These are the first images of St Pancras station, which is en route to becoming London’s main Channel Tunnel Rail Link terminal.

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    Travis Perkins profit

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Travis Perkins has reported a 17% increase in pre-tax profit to £128.6m for the six months to 30 June.

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    Beatty purchase

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Balfour Beatty Management has acquired NAP Partnership, a Middlesbrough commercial services firm with a turnover of £6m.

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    Persimmon sites

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Persimmon has bought three sites in the Leeds area with a development value of £46m.

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    College contract

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Bardsley Construction, from Manchester, has won a £10m project to build a sixth form college in Blackpool.

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    Hanson takeover

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Hanson shareholders have approved a takeover bid from HeidelbergCement.

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    Theatre fit-out

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Fit-out specialist Vivid Interiors has been appointed on a £1m refurbishment at Sir Cameron Mackintosh’s Gielgud Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, central London.

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    Bucknall scoops up three contracts

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Consultant Rider Levett Bucknall has won a trio of contracts, including a £100m tie-up with social landlord Jephson.

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    House and garden

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    This scheme, in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Ontario, Canada, has just begun on site.

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    Appointments

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

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    National Construction College moves step closer to reprieve

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    The National Construction College (NCC) in Bircham Newton, Norfolk, may have been handed a lifeline after the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) reacted positively to proposals that would allow specialist training to remain at the centre.

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    Specifier 03 August 2007

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

  • Features

    The quiet revolutionary

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Don’t be fooled by the lack of windmills and solar panels – this Innovate Properties building in Leeds is the greenest office in the UK, even with its mechanical ventilation. Eleanor Cochrane finds out how it was done

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    Movers and makers

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

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