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Carillion sets limit of £15m a year for PFI bid costs …
Carillion has set an annual limit of £15m a year for PFI bid costs amid continuing concerns over the cost of the procurement method.
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… as labour row breaks out
The government has been called on to intervene in a row over labour at Carillion’s £236m PFI hospital in Portsmouth.
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Architects campaign to ease visa restrictions
Architects from outside the EU could have their British visa constraints relaxed, if an industry campaign proves successful.
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NewsInto the valley
Developer Gazeley UK is to build a £50m eco-friendly business park in Staffordshire.
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NewsHeritage prefabs
Architect Snell Associates has designed a modular building system for visitor pavilions that the National Trust can roll out on its sites across the country.
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NewsUnreal city
Gordon Brown is promising 10 new eco towns, but are we buying into another illusion? (Anybody here remember the millennium villages?)
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NewsLand without people
You can’t build houses without land, and 3 million houses requires an awful lot of it. So how can the public sector help their friends in the private get their hands on it? Well, the recent green paper has some ideas
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News...and people without buses
As we know, the Thames Gateway can’t succeed without a lot of money being spent on public transport. Yes, but whose money? A recent scheme in Kent may have answered that question
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NewsThe rise of the west
Never mind the agonising slow-motion struggle to develop the eastern bits of the Gateway – in the west Stratford and Barking are shooting up...
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NewsTake in the view
Landscaping is set to be the next big thing in sustainable design so Thomas Lane went to BRE’s Innovation Park to see how it should be done
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A wall, high, around the Earth
That’s something else we could do with the 33 billion bricks needed to build those 3 million extra homes. And given the decidedly chilly economic forecast, some are arguing that it’s about as likely
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NewsLooking ahead...
Curious to know how the Thames Gateway will look when it’s all finished? Well if you feel like going to Ashford in Kent, there’s a model already built. And if you don’t, don’t worry, Chloë McCulloch’s already been and she took her camera
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NewsSpecialists contractors take centre stage
See who walked away with the big prizes at Building's Specialist Contractor Awards in our exclusive video
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NewsRopey, really ropey
Four storeys up in Malta - almost as high as the list of safety errors he's committing
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NewsTV Show hits the buffers with arrival of St Pancras' Upper Crust
Watching contractors fitting-out a baguette food outlet failed to stir our columnist last night but at least he missed the football
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NewsErinaceous board offers handsome reward for ugly failure
A leaving present of £736,000 ensures Erinaceous' two bosses a secure future, something not guaranteed for the 4000 employees