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NewsEDAW team wins design contract for Olympic park
The EDAW consortium and multidisciplinary consultants Arup and Atkins have been chosen to design the Olympic park and infrastructure.
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NewsOlympic boss sweeps aside bids for two contracts
Olympic Delivery Authority chief David Higgins scraps tenders for a programme manager and velopark designer.
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NewsFirms face security ‘lock-down'
Construction firms working in the Olympic zone could face tough security measures, including restricted site access in the 18 months prior to the Games.
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CABE to head design review body for Games
The ODA confirmed on Tuesday that a design review body would be set up for the Games.
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Allies and Morrison tipped for Waterloo tower
Architect Allies and Morrison looks set to win a competition to design the latest tall tower planned for Waterloo in central London.
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Animal rights protesters identify Oxford lab firm
Protest group SPEAK plans to put ‘intense pressure' on crane supplier to force it to quit animal testing laboratory
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Carillion beats Balfour Beatty in building league table
In Building's first rankings of contracts won excluding civils, Carillion beats top dog Balfour by £300m
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£100m Rydon Group buyout finalised
Three directors at East Sussex construction oufit Rydon Group have completed a £100m buyout led by Bob Bond, Rydon Construction's managing director, with John Kitchin, group legal director and Paul Wright, group finance director.
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Pathfinders ‘unfair to owners'
Heritage campaigners have called on the government to give homeowners whose dwellings have been demolished as part of a housing market renewal pathfinder scheme a bigger cut of the resulting profit.
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Government to cut planning risk for big schemes
Councils could receive financial rewards if they sign binding agreements with the developers of large and complex schemes.
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NewsUS-inspired plan to break up sink estates gets green light
The Mixed Communities pilot, based on America's Hope VI programme, is to be given resources to go national
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Building intelligence Q3 2005: Is the party over?
Experian Business Strategies reports on the first fall in construction industry output in 2005 since 1994, bringing to an end the longest continuous period of growth since the 1960s
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MP faces subpoena in Multiplex vs Cleveland Bridge
Alan Milburn called to appear in high court to give evidence.
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Construction workers in strike ballot over pensions row
Seventy thousand construction workers employed by councils are being balloted for strikes in a row over pensions.
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Norwest Holst Engineering in £150,000 row
Lobard North Central plc takes engineering firm to the High Court.
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Workspace sells out-of-town units for £42m
Group sheds properties outside M25 to increase focus on Greater London.
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Vascroft Contractors faces £600,000 claim
Quietfield Ltd asks court to enforce adjudicator's decision in its favour.