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NewsWolseley warns of continued US housing market downturn
The building giant's trading statement reveals pre-tax profits for American operations have fallen further
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NewsGladedale offers £84m for Ben Bailey
Private housebuilder makes recommended share offer for Yorkshire firm
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Federation of Master Builders warns of serious labour shortage
State of Trade survey for this quarter reveals that skills deficit is at its highest level since 2005
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NewsPersimmon completes Ironstone
Image: Ironstone provides 114 new homes for Telford regeneration scheme
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Currie & Brown appoints new finance manager
Also: Gleeds gets a new associate director in Glasgow
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NewsReport warns industry too complacent about structural safety
Structural failure is still a big problem, says Standing Committee on Structural Safety
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NewsManchester supercasino 'remains on the table'
Council says government on track with casino plans despite Brown's review announcement
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NewsHopkins wins Olympic velopark – images
Architect-lead consortium wins design competition for 2012 velodrome and related facilities
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CommentSelf-harm for developers
Developers always try to impose the same liabilities on their contractors that they themselves are under. This is at best futile and at worst a danger to their own interests
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FeaturesTop drawer
Talk about a cabinet reshuffle – Denton Corker Marshall’s flamboyant design for Manchester’s Civil Justice Centre has brought dynamism to the heart of the legal establishment. Over the next eight pages Martin Spring praises the building’s clear, bold expression and on pages 48-50, we meet the Australian trio who designed ...
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FeaturesThe golden age of travel
Is right now, thanks to the bulging pay packets, cushy expat packages, sexed-up CVs and challenging jobs that are on offer to UK professionals willing to work abroad.
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CommentYoung blood
Other professions may be more appealing to children, but they don’t all have their own GCSE or conduct multimillion-pound projects on school premises. It’s time construction made these factors count
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CommentWeb watch — Ecomarket sweep
Fear not specifiers, says Alex Smith. To help meet the barrage of sustainable standards that has been published recently, there is an assortment of green product resources on the internet
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Population pressure: can Britain learn to live with Hong Kong-style housing?
Developments are being built that cram 2,500 homes into a hectare, and more are on the way. A team of architects has reported on how we can manage the social strains that arise in such ‘superdense’ schemes
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NewsHopkins races away with Olympic velopark contract
Hopkins Architects has won the race to design the Olympic velopark, likely to be the last major design-led venue procured for the 2012 Games.The Hopkins consortium, which beat seven other teams, also included Expedition Engineering, sustainability consultant BDSP and landscape and masterplanning architect Grant Associates.The losers were David Chipperfield, ...
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After the event
This House of Lords decision concerns the assessment of damages to be awarded to an injured party to a contract that has been breached before the occurrence of an event which would give rise to a right to cancel (in this case, the Second Gulf War) and before the contract ...
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CommentWonders & blunders
Martin Chambers rejoices in the tuneful offerings of Birmingham International Convention Centre but deplores the Soviet-style design of Leeds’ Quarry House
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NewsTrillium snaps up Amec PPP arm for £163.5m
Deal with Land Securties Trillium includes sale of nine PFI projects that have reached financial close
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CommentJCT sleeps with the fishes
Standard forms are supposed to make things easy, but that wasn’t exactly the builder’s experience in Reinwood vs Brown. Maybe it’s time the whole lot were taken for a ride …