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    More scrutiny

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Steven Douglas, chief executive of the Housing Corporation, said it would increase its scrutiny of board governance during its final year as regulator of registered social landlords.

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    Pod cast

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    These are the latest construction images of Zaha Hadid Architects’ Bridge Pavilion in Zaragoza, Spain.

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    Stock market turmoil forces T&T to postpone flotation

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Turner & Townsend has shelved plans to float on the stock exchange after failing to achieve its £200m target valuation.

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    Woking up

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    This scheme, designed by HLM Architects in Woking, Surrey, was given the go-ahead by the council this week.

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    Kings of King Street

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Grainger and Helical Bapr have been appointed to develop a mixed-use scheme in Hammersmith, west London.

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    Crossrail agrees to keep noise down with £2m rubber track

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Rubber “noise dimming” rail tracks will have to be installed on parts of the £16bn Crossrail scheme after businesses and residents on the route complained about noise.

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    Reading’s improving

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Construction starts this month on the Green Park office scheme on the southern outskirts of Reading.

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    Arts centre inches into life

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Grimshaw’s arts centre for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York is midway through construction after being delayed for more than a year.

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    … as architects battle for Euston station

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Foreign Office Architects, Grimshaw and Wilkinson Eyre are battling it out to design the £1bn Euston station redevelopment for British Land and Network Rail.

  • Develop and construct was used on Oundle School's £7.9m SciTec Centre in Peterborough by Feilden Clegg Bradley and Willmott Dixon
    Features

    Procurement: Develop and construct

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon describes a new twist to this procurement route that combines elements of two-stage tendering and collaborative working

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    Steady as she goes

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Final year results at Renew Holdings will be in line with market expectations after statisfactory trading in the first quarter

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    Planning applications: January 2008

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Applications hold steady in the South-east and rise sharply in the Midlands, North and South-west

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    Movers and makers

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    This week

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    Specifier 08 February 2008

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

  • Skanska
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    Skanska profit falls £2.6m

    2008-02-07T15:35:00Z

    Contractor blames £2.6m profit drop in UK business on problems with three unnamed schemes

  • sausages on BBQ
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    When is a sausage a hazardous material?

    2008-02-07T13:03:00Z

    When it's barbequed on a construction site surrounded by flammable waste

  • Tony Bingham
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    Construction is full of Mrs Conways

    2008-02-07T12:28:00Z

    The building industry employs plenty of family members, so why do MPs get such a rough deal?

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    Top ten green stories in January

    2008-02-07T10:02:00Z

    Buildings that look like hedges, towers that look like trees, and what a scheme actually gets up to when you've finished building it. All this and more in our guide to the most read articles on the green channel last month

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    Growing sustainable trends - water footprinting

    2008-02-07T02:00:00Z

    Special online report: Will Jones investigates the growing importance of embedded water - the amount used before and during construction - for the industry Such is it's importance it will soon become the blue gold, he writes

  • Caroline Flint
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    Housing superagency sets up London board

    2008-02-07T14:19:00Z

    Sub committee chaired by London mayor will help speed up capital’s £3bn housebuilding programme