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NewsBlack outlook
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has won outline planning consent for a 93,000m2 mixed-use apartment and hotel scheme in the Russian city of Sochi on the Black Sea coast for developer Parus.
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Skills shortages set to grow as Poles lured back by higher pay
Pay for site labour in Poland has risen by about 20% in the past year, a development that is likely to lure workers in the UK back to their native country. The pay for professional staff has risen by between 10% and 20%.
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NewsFit for purpose
Cambridge university’s department of architecture has spent £3m refurbishing its premises and developing a studio building alongside it.
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NewsGreat Ormond Street gets better
Planning permission for a revamped Great Ormond Street hospital, designed by Llewelyn Davies Yeang, has been given the go-ahead.
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Surveyors strike over pay
Staff at the Valuation Office Agency, which employs 1,000 surveyors, went on strike today after spurning an increased pay offer.
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Willmott wins
Willmott Dixon has taken its workload procured through the public sector framework to more than £100m with two pre-contract appointments in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and Bognor Regis, West Sussex.
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RLB in Birmingham
Naus Group has appointed Rider Levett Bucknall as QS on its £95m mixed-use scheme in Connaught Square, in the Digbeth area of Birmingham.
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Mining group fit-out
Overbury, the commercial office fit-out and refurbishment specialist, has completed a £13.5m office fit-out for the international mining group Rio Tinto at its UK offices in central London.
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NewsBye-bye, buy-to-let
It may be the end of the road for the amateur investor, but with the rental market still strong, housebuilders are trying to find new ways of appealing to serious backers.
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Stainless steel kitchen sink
Carron Phoenix has launched a new stainless steel sink called Zeta 100.
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Features
Top 45 surveyors websites: Measuring up
In the third of his series on construction industry websites, Martin Hornagold turns his attention to surveyors and again finds that they are failing basic tests
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Five themes from Ecobuild
We hunt for the latest thinking and trends to emerge from the Earls Court exhibition
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Seminars guide industry in new green grades
Seminars designed to help property industry meet new EPCs regulations
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NewsIs he hiding from the husband?
Or is he an electrician risking life and limb laying down cables in Chelsea
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NewsBeijing flies into an unsustainable future
Foster's Beijing airport is a masterpiece but it doesn't bode well for the environment especially when you hear that China is planning 97 more airports over the next decade
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NewsAECB launches CarbonLite at Ecobuild
Sustainable building association introduces crash course in low energy buildings
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NewsView from my office: Malcolm Davidson
The Turner & Townsend principal looks over Queensland’s Gold Coast
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NewsRedrow predicts gloomy 2008 after 'poor' results
Housebuilder's results are 'less robust' than Persimmon or Barratt says analyst
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NewsNetwork Rail hit by record £14m fine for delays
Rail regulator says late running engineering works after New Year holidays were unacceptable