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NewsAn arrival in Dresden
Dresden station reopened this week after a £94m refurbishment designed by Foster and Partners and Buro Happold.
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NewsWaiting to get better
It’s been pumped full of cash, had its hospitals replaced, its contractors reorganised and its clinics transplanted, and it’s still £1bn in debt and most of its procurement methods don’t work terribly well. Mark Leftly reports on what’s gone wrong with the government’s health policy
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FeaturesBeer, cannabis, glue and a generous helping of lime
No, not a recipe for a quiet night in, but rather the ingredients of Adnams’ deep green distribution centre. Thomas Lane went to Suffolk to meet a brewer with a difference
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NewsWhat we’ve got cooking
SME FOCUS — Fit-out specialist IDM is thriving by targeting upmarket clients such as Jamie Oliver
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FeaturesStarting out
For managers on site, taking responsibility for health and safety can be a matter of life and death. And for graduates in their early twenties, that responsibility can weigh very heavily indeed.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Eric Parry hails one bucolic estate in the Square Mile, and rails against many, many others, all over the country
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Gay and lusty commoners that will ramp and thrive...
BACK ISSUES — October 1945 Sodom and Gomorrah
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Pru drops housing plan after watchdog threatens veto
Insurance giant to revise Reading scheme after Environment Agency raises flood worries
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Top housing plan
HOUSING STATS — This month the SE England Development Agency is the biggest client and work is well up in the South-east
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Arup and Rendel ride in to fix Ascot grandstand crisis
Consultants are drafted in after racecourse receives more than 1,000 complaints
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NewsReady for the off
Ascot was hailed as a triumph when the revamp was completed in time for Royal Ascot this year, but since then it has been criticised by punters who say they cannot see the track properly from the grandstand.
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NewsMcCarthy tipped for Communities England
Senior civil servant Richard McCarthy has been lined up to head Communities England, the body that would be formed from a merger of English Partnerships and the Housing Corporation
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Dispute over White City subcontractors settled
Westfield has ended a dispute over its selection of subcontractors on the White City project in west London.
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New CSCS for professionals
The Construction Skills Certification Scheme was extended this week to cover professional occupations, including engineering, quantity surveying and architecture.
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Rate of deaths and serious injuries falls over past year
The rate of deaths and serious injuries in construction has fallen over the past year, according to the latest report from the Health and Safety Executive.
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NewsStar names queue up to design Olympic velopark
Foster and Rogers among architects preparing to fight it out for design-led contract
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Ex-finance chief in dispute with Bovis over bonus
Bovis Lend Lease is in dispute with Andrew Silverbeck, its former global chief financial officer, over a bonus payment.
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NewsAnother partner leaves Foster
The exodus from Foster and Partners continued this week when it emerged that one of the practice’s longest serving partners will leave to set up his own consultancy
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British firms seek work rebuilding Lebanon
The construction body British Expertise is to hold talks with the Lebanese government over UK firms obtaining reconstruction contracts after the conflict with Israel.