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Gleeds, and Sir Steve, sign up for Olympic delivery bid
Cost consultant Gleeds and its Olympic ambassador Sir Steve Redgrave have joined forces with Amec and Balfour Beatty to bid for the Olympic delivery partner role.
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NewsFens and fowl
A £3.5m wildfowl visitor centre designed by Allies and Morrison opens next week at Welney in the Norfolk fens.
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MJP starts to lose former BBC staff
Architect MacCormac Jamieson Prichard is set to lose two senior architects who worked on the BBC Broadcasting House project in the clearest signal yet it will not return to the scheme, writes Vikki Miller.
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Bowcott hearing under way
Amec was this week presenting evidence at an employment tribunal case brought by Steve Bowcott, the former managing director of its UK construction services business.
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City academies cost more
The City Academy programme came under renewed pressure this week after it emerged that each costs £8m more to build than a conventional school.
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Anger as council sets own sustainable homes standards
Housebuilders say Reading council has exploited delay in introducing ODPM code to impose tougher requirements
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Plea for planning gain tax to be levied locally
The Town and Country Planning Association has pleaded with the government to allow the proposed planning gain supplement to be levied locally.
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Upbeat Wimpey says sales have increased since last year
Housebuilder George Wimpey has reported that its sales are now outstripping those for last year.
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NewsCarillion admits surprise at £90m Mowlem writedown
Contractor suffers hits on schools and tunnel projects, having already written down £45m during takeover
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Cyril Sweett launches building surveying division
Quantity surveyor Cyril Sweett has launched a building surveying division based in London and Bristol.
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Wolseley to hire Peugeot staff
Materials giant Wolseley is to employ up to 200 of the 2300 people made redundant last week by car maker Peugeot.
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NewsMultiplex says Cleveland Bridge 'held gun to its head'
Project director accuses Cleveland Bridge of threatening insolvency if Multiplex did not agree to its financial demands.
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NewsBarts PFI scheme finally reaches financial close
Skanska consortium reaches financial close eight months after it was originally expected to do so in August last year.
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NewsBristol mega-hospital gets green light
North Bristol's Southmead Hospital to become £280m acute hospital, bringing many of the city's specialist facilities on to one site.
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NewsMulitplex and Hollandia agree final steelwork settlement
M&E contractor Honeywell also agrees deal with Multiplex to accelerate work on project.
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NewsMultiplex manager slams Cleveland Bridge at High Court
Multiplex project manager Ashley Muldoon calls steel contractor "incompetent, unmotivated and devious."
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NewsCABE calls Ghery's Brighton project banal
CABE letter says public spaces on Frank Gehry's King Alfred development had not been given enough thought.
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NewsWilson Bowden buys Roland Bardsley Homes for £25m
RBH has completed around 150 houses each year in its North West region for the past three years.
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NewsLondon's tallest skyscraper wins planning approval
The 228m high Bishopsgate Tower by Kohn Pederson Fox overcomes objections to win planning approval.
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NewsSpanswick appointed to Health and Safety Commission
Bovis chairman John Spanswick will promote the construction industry's role in HSC strategy and programmes.