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FeaturesSaving St George
Purcell Miller Tritton’s lavish £22m restoration has returned Liverpool’s grade I-listed St George’s Hall to its glorious past – just with fewer prisoners and hopefully more tourists.
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Renew’s profit leaps 72%
Renew, the contractor formerly named Montpellier, has reported a 72% rise in interim profit after a restructuring.
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FeaturesCountry focus: France
With President Sarkozy newly instated, Patrick Leniston, country manager for EC Harris in France, reports on the construction issues that may affect the country’s future leader
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Pootling along
Activity in March may have been less buoyant than a month earlier but it’s still running along quite nicely. Civil engineering continued to dominate, putting the residential and non-residential sectors in the shade. And, according to Experian Business Strategies, order books were healthy
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NewsGive first-time buyers a leg up
The shortage of one- and two-bedroom homes has driven up prices, to everybody’s detriment
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Gleeson Building’s £16m hotel is first development project
Gleeson Building has won its first development project, a £16m hotel in Luton.
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NewsZaha’s magnum Opus
Zaha Hadid has unveiled this design for Opus, a £235m development in Dubai’s Business Bay for Omniyat Properties.
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NewsFoster’s Faustino pact
This winery, designed by Foster + Partners, is under construction in the Ribera del Duero wine region in the north of Spain.
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Accounts reveal scale of problems at Wembley subcontractor
Pre-tax profit at Wembley M&E contractor Phoenix Electrical fell 60% in 2006, its penultimate year on the stadium, according to figures published this week.
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Metronet set to axe 490 staff
Metronet, the PPP London Underground consortium that includes Atkins and Balfour Beatty, is to make almost 300 of its full-time staff redundant
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CSCS in row with CITB over smartcard plan
CITB–ConstructionSkills and CSCS are in a contractual stand-off over the introduction of smart card technology to the industry’s skills card scheme.
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NewsCounting the cost
It is not yet known to what extent Monday’s fire at the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, south-east London will set back the 19th century ship’s £25m restoration.
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Erinaceous jumps 7% after Tchenguiz approach
Erinaceous saw its share price climb 7% this week as a takeover approach from Vincent Tchenguiz, brother of the Iranian millionaire Robert, signalled a potential bidding war over the property services company.
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NewsFlat of the land
Land Securities is releasing the second phase of its Princesshay apartment scheme in Exeter.
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Homes warning
A Sustainable Development Commission report has found that the rush to build 200,000 units a year is leading to poorly designed homes, with too few transport links, parks and community centres.
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Buy-to-let boom
Fears that borrowing costs might deter buy-to-let investors lack substance, a survey by Paragon Mortgages has claimed.
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Persimmon buy
Persimmon Homes has bought a two-acre site at Navenby, near Peterborough, in Lincolnshire.
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Lovell regeneration
Lovell has started on site on the second phase of a £170m regeneration programme at Camp Hill, Nuneaton, Warwickshire.