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Barts paying £500k a month in PFI interest
The cost of the UK’s biggest PFI scheme, the £1.1bn Barts and The London NHS Trust, is rising by £500,000 each month because it has not reached financial close.
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Building writers hit winning streak at industry awards
Building writers won five awards at last week’s International Building Press Journalism Awards ceremony in central London. Mark Leftly, the features editor, scooped the Construction Journalist of the Year award, news editor George Hay took the prize for Feature Writer of the Year, Housing editor Josephine Smit was named ...
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Holiday wrangle payout
Engineering contractors May Gurney and Morrison Utility Services must pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to workers after losing a row over holiday pay.
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Amec workers at T5 join call for extra bonuses
Three hundred Amec workers at Heathrow Terminal 5 have added their voices to the demand for extra bonuses.
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NewsBig architects share out East London Line spoils
Wilkinson Eyre, John McAslan + Partners and Scott Brownrigg win contracts on stations and regeneration schemes
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Crossrail ‘challenge’ to Olympics
The £10bn Crossrail project could increase the cost and slow the construction programme of the 2012 Olympics by obstructing the transportation of materials to sites.
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Procurement delayed on Bradford schools
The Building Schools for the Future programme in Bradford has been delayed, and the preferred bidder will probably not be named until next year.
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NewsBy royal appointment
Oxford architect Berman Guedes Stretton has been appointed for a £1.4m lecture theatre at Queen’s College, Oxford University, after winning a limited competition against Rick Mather Architects, MacCormac Jamieson Prichard and van Heyningen & Haward.
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CABE adds design quality plan to PFI debate
CABE is continuing the PFI debate by recommending a seven-point plan to improve design quality.
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ODPM finance director appointed Olympic tsar
Andrew Lean becomes Olympic co-ordinator for the civil service, as ODPM undergoes wide-ranging shake-up
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NewsTheatre for little adults
The UK’s first purpose-built children’s theatre opens this week behind City Hall on London’s South Bank.
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NewsIndustry in talks over nuclear skills crisis
The nuclear industry is to meet the construction industry’s trade bodies in the new year to try and head off a skills crisis in the provision of new nuclear power stations.
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Wembley plumbing contractor goes into administration
The troubled Wembley Stadium project endured another setback this week after its plumbing contractor went into administration.
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Immigrant workers arrested
Immigration officers this week arrested 12 suspected failed asylum seekers working on a £560m Ministry of Defence construction project, in what is believed to be part of a wider crackdown on illegal workers in the industry.
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NewsDoing the Lambeth York
Lambeth council in south-east London has given planning permission for York House, a 91,440 m2 office building on Lambeth Palace Road for Delancey Estates.
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NewsAmec to sell French arm after taking £70m hit
City reacts with scepticism as firm announces plan to sell Spie and split into two separate companies
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Atkins reports profit despite Metronet losses
Support services group Atkins this week revealed a solid set of results for the six months to the end of September, despite a £3m provision on its Metronet investment.
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NewsMayor offers to trade affordability for ecology
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, London mayor prepares to adopt a more flexible approach to housing criteria
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CommentThe PFI suggestion box …
The Treasury’s review of the PFI can’t come soon enough. The renewal of the grim Whipps Cross hospital was hampered rather than helped by it, and the refurbishment of St Bart’s is demonstrating how much money can be lost in a few weeks.