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  • News

    Vaux brewery offer

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Urban Regeneration Company Sunderland Arc has made an offer to buy the controversial former Vaux Brewery site in the city from Tesco.

  • News

    Swan refurbishment

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Swan Housing Group has been selected by Newham council to deliver a £55m PFI project to refurbish 1,400 houses in Forest Gate, east London.

  • News

    Ask in Manchester

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Commercial development firm Ask Developments has secured a £20.5m deal to develop the 20-acre site of the Central Spine scheme in central Manchester.

  • News

    Help from Lloyds

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    LIoyds TSB has appointed Andrew Moorfield as managing director of housebuilding and building materials to lead a team that helps businesses with their financial needs.

  • News

    Homes in York

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Planning permission has been granted for 154 homes in York designed by John Thompson and Partners.

  • Comment

    A no brainer

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Less than 10% of construction firms train apprentices and only eight of the 63 largest companies offer regular employment to an apprentice through ConstructionSkills.

  • News

    Edens Edge

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Grimshaw this week revealed the design for the £70m dome known as The Edge at the Eden Project in Cornwall.

  • News

    Government reveals plans for giant prisons

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The government plans to build three giant “Titan” prisons by 2014, it said in a report published on Wednesday.

  • News

    Medical campus gets the all clear

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Plans for a biomedical campus in Cambridge have been given the green light.

  • News

    Two in race for Tate Modern

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Mace and Balfour Beatty are understood to be vying for the role of construction manager on Herzog & de Meuron’s extension to Tate Modern.

  • News

    MPs given ultimatum on R&D

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    A single government body must co-ordinate industry R&D, research bodies have warned in the latest BERR select committee hearing into construction.

  • News

    Erinaceous review imminent

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Beleaguered property group Erinaceous insisted this week that it would present the results of its strategic review before Christmas.

  • News

    Super-lab at St Pancras

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    A £500m “super-laboratory” in central London has been given the go-ahead by the government.

  • News

    Paradise regained

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The Eden Court Theatre in Inverness has become Scotland’s largest arts centre after a refurbishment and extension project completed by Robertson Construction.

  • News

    Baqus on brink of following Sweett onto stock market

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Quantity surveyor Baqus is set to become a plc in the next fortnight.

  • News

    MPs back Merton rule bill

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    A bill to give councils the right to implement the so-called “Merton rule” on renewable energy is to be put forward by MPs today.

  • News

    The Harlem shuffle

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Renzo Piano’s $7bn (£3.5bn) expansion of Columbia university was given the green light this week by New York’s department for city planning.

  • News

    British consultant BACTEC to clear explosives in Lebanon

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    A British consultant has won a UN contract to clear explosives in Lebanon next year.

  • News

    Argent’s Madelin wins top award

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Argent chief executive Roger Madelin won the regeneration leadership award at the 2007 Regeneration Awards this week for his work to regenerate King’s Cross.

  • News

    It’s official: London is most expensive place on Earth to build

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    London had the highest tender prices in the world last year, according to a report by Rider Levett Bucknall.