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NewsCostain and Laing O'Rourke in £30m King's Cross win
Joint venture will upgrade Grade I listed Eastern Range station building
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NewsArts Team wins Billy Elliot theatre job
RHWL's theatre design practice will design and extend the Victoria Palace Theatre in London
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NewsWacky racers ride again
What looks like an old army truck disguised as scaffolding forms a makeshift moving platform in the Czech Republic
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NewsSelina Mason leaves Cabe for Olympic design job
Mason will work alongside Jerome Frost as the deputy head of design at the Olympic Delivery Authority
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NewsAone+ wins £158m highways agency contract
Costain, Halcrow and Colas JV will manage motorways for five years
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NewsImages: Foster unveils green utopia in the desert
Foster + Partners says the walled city of Masdar in Abu Dhabi will be the world's first zero-carbon and zero-waste city
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NewsWillmott Dixon wins £20m BSF project in Surrey
Pathfinder scheme will accommodate 1,000 students while teaching BSF lessons for contractors
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NewsPaper round: Green audit could cut bills by £230
The Sunday Telegraph lambasts the number of HIPs inspectors while sister paper says energy audits could cut domestic bills by £230
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NewsExtreme loft conversion
Thanks to Andy Hurst of Atkins for this picture from Qatar. He says: “Scary stuff.
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NewsThe four key messages from Think
Nuclear power, off-setting, road pricing and sustainability costs were all high on speakers' agenda at Think 07
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NewsFormer finance boss takes Bovis to tribunal over bonus
Contractor’s personnel problems continue as date for hearing is set in Andrew Silverbeck case
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Home Rule
The parties entered into a JCT With Contractor’s Design contract for the construction of 114 residential apartments in Manchester. This case concerns the enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision. During the adjudication, Crosby Homes raised three jurisdictional challenges:1 There was no jurisdiction under the “side agreements”2 ...
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Hitting the books
The appellant, Charter Partnership Ltd (“Charter”), is a firm of architects which designed a warehouse that was leased to the respondent, Pearson Education Ltd (“Pearson”). Pearson suffered financial loss when a number of books it owned which were stored in the warehouse were damaged in a flood at the warehouse. ...
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CommentSculpture clash
When it comes to public art, there are two schools of thought: ‘plonk art’, where you plonk down a slab by a big-name artist, and a more local, integrated approach. Tarek Merlin offers a few lessons on both methods
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CommentMade to measure
In the old days, a claim for disruption was a kind of generalised moan about things getting fouled up. These days, there are all kinds of ways of putting a figure on the costs. Here’s how it works
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CommentGiant leaps
The gold rush, the space race ... the US psyche likes nothing more than a bit of competition, which might be good news as it finally begins to acknowledge the green agenda.
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NewsInvestors cautious after Spanish housing crash
BAA owner Ferrovial is among contractors that could suffer knock-on effects from market fall
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Barratt and Taylor Woodrow win fight for urban village
Consortium wins permission to build 1,200 homes in Cheshire after a 10-year battle
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Former finance boss takes Bovis to tribunal over bonus
Contractor’s personnel problems continue as date for hearing is set in Andrew Silverbeck case
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