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The meaning of success
Your description of Dalston City Partnership as successful is not entirely accurate.
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Clients and consultants go to war over project liability
Gulf between two has been exposed by publication of contract drawn up by the British Property Federation
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A kite for the Olympics
Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox International and airport planner Netherlands Airport Consultants have won a design competition for an international airport in Tianjin, the fourth largest city in China.
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Brown’s land release gets muted response
housebuilders have cautiously welcomed the announcement that the government is to release hundreds of acres of public sector land for housing
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Jarvis shares crash to 7p as firm takes another loan
Shares in Jarvis crashed 37% to 7p on Monday as the troubled support services group admitted it was in talks to borrow another £31.4m.
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Reaction to PFI scare story
The Office for National Statistics has denied assertions made in a newspaper article last week that it had decided to include billions of pounds of PFI capital expenditure in public sector debt figures.
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Wembley subcontractor hits back at ‘malicious rumours'
Electrical company Phoenix says it knows the source of some of the false claims and may take action
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After 99 years, Ritz finally buys house next door
The Ritz hotel in central London is set for expansion after buying one of the capital’s most famous townhouses next door.
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M&E deals in doubt as Corby quits Amicus
Ambitious plans to win trail-blazing pay deals for M&E workers were dealt a blow this week when Paul Corby quit as Amicus’ national construction secretary
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BRE acoustic report was ignored at Greenwich
A BRE report for English Partnerships recommended much higher acoustics standards for impact noise than were adopted at Greenwich Millennium Village.
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Shuttleworth’s £120m Coventry scheme scrapped
Make and RHWL’s landmark design for 350 apartments plus bars and hotel is ‘unlikely to go ahead’
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Crisis in roofing trade deepens as asphalt course closes
Doubt has been cast over the future of training provision in the roofing trade after it emerged that one of the only two asphalting courses in the UK is to close.
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Industry cautious at Kelly review
The Construction Confederation has criticised the government’s Kelly review of construction capacity for ignoring problems in local government spending
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Government forced to extend LIFT deadline
The government has extended the deadline for consortiums to reach financial close on its LIFT programme from a year to 15 months.
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Bennetts’ basin
Architect Bennetts Associates has applied for planning permission for a 28-storey residential tower at 259 City Road in Islington, north London.
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Do the locomotion
Architect Austin-Smith:Lord’s design for Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon, County Durham, has been shortlisted for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year and the Conservation Awards.
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CITB to hand over control of skills card scheme
CSCS-ConstructionSkills agrees to appointment of independent chief executive to control scheme’s finances
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Four Essex colleges planned for Thames Gateway
Government training agency the Learning and Skills Council is to extend its education building programme in Essex as part of the regeneration of the Thames Gateway.
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MoD’s £100m cash shortfall
The Ministry of Defence has come under fire for failing to pump enough money into its regional prime contracts, leaving it unable to achieve its efficiency objectives.
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Tate Modern architect to exhibit at … Tate Modern
Switzerland’s Herzog & de Meuron is first contemporary architect to be honoured with exhibition at the gallery