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Land Secs to work closer with specialists
Francis Salway, chief executive of Land Securities, has said he wants to forge closer links with specialist contractors.
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Employers could control £3bn training budget
Industry training body ConstructionSkills has welcomed recommendations in a government skills review to give employers control of £3bn of public funds for skills training.
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Outgoing Barratt boss honoured at Regeneration awards
David Pretty was named regeneration champion of the year at Building’s 2006 Regeneration awards this week.
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This time, it might actually work
Kate Barker is rapidly becoming the patron saint of housebuilders.
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T5 struggles with M&E costs and leaking roof
Heathrow Terminal 5 was beset by problems this week as it emerged that remedial work was being carried out on the building’s roof and the project is exceeding its M&E budget by £56,000 an hour.
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Gleaming spire of St Petersburg
Architect RMJM beat Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & De Meuron and Massimiliano Fuksas to win a £324m scheme to design a headquarters for gas giant Gazprom in St Petersburg, Russia.
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T5 struggles with M&E costs and leaking roof
Remedial work at Heathrow's Terminal 5 is exceeding its M&E budget by £56,000 an hour
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A few bricks short of a terrace
As good as they are hi-vis vests don't yet offer built-in edge protection
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Image: Foster's Russian cultural centre
Foster and Partners is selected to design music and cultural centre in North Ossetia
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Saint-Gobain cuts 220 UK jobs
French materials group will close Derbyshire pipe manufacturing business in April
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Scott Wilson pays £30m for two firms
Engineer strengthens its property and nuclear businesses with two acquisitions
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Construction orders up 8%
Orders for the three months to October were up 8% compared to the same period last year
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Haden signs £150m Met police contract
Balfour Beatty's FM arm signs contract to manage Metropolitan Police buildings
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Industry welcomes 'green' pre-Budget report
Architects, contractors and QSs praise the Treasury's ambition to make all new homes carbon neutral by 2010, but question how it will be made a reality
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Pre-budget speech: All new homes to be zero carbon in 10 years
Chancellor Gordon Brown announces stamp duty exemption for new zero carbon homes
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Hang about!
Who would sit dangling their legs over the edge of a multistorey car park while painting it? Meet three guys with a death wish ...
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Bob White takes over at Constructing Excellence
Mace boss is set to take the helm in January when Peter Rogers steps down as chairman
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Safety regulators set to merge
HSC launches consultation into merging with HSE into one organisation
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Jarvis reduces pre-tax loss to £1.5m
Chairman of support services group, Steven Norris, is positive about interim results despite downturn in rail contracts