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Olympic transport body gets go-ahead
The government is set to establish an Olympic Transport Authority to oversee the development of transport links and infrastructure for the games.
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Guy Hands in frame to buy Fairclough Homes
Entrepreneur Guy Hands is understood to be preparing to put in a bid for Fairclough Homes, the housebuilder put up for sale for £250m by its US parent Centex. Hands is chief executive of private equity company Terra Firma.
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NewsA view of the bridge
Contractor Alfred McAlpine has begun work to prepare the site of this £4.9m foot and cycle bridge in Newport, south Wales. The Usk bridge, designed by Grimshaw and Atkins, is 67 m tall and 145 m long. The structure has four crane-like masts, standing in pairs, which support the bridge ...
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Costs double as Plymouth hospital PFI ditches sole bid
The Plymouth Hospitals PFI scheme has nearly doubled in cost to £600m after the NHS confirmed last week it had rejected the sole bidder for the project.
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Mowlem urges Network Rail to reconsider ban
Mowlem chief executive Simon Vivian has been in talks this week with Network Rail over getting the company reinstated on the track renewal programme.
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NewsTesco set to sue civils contractor after tunnel collapse
Supermarket giant Tesco is considering whether to sue the firm that was constructing a rail tunnel beneath the site of its Gerrards Cross store after it collapsed last week.
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CABE calls for icons for the common man
CABE has warned the government not to concentrate exclusively on inner-city regeneration at the expense of more suburban areas.
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NewsStock leaves the blocks
Planning approval has been granted for this £23m mixed-use development at Payne Road in east London. Created by architect and urban designer Stock Woolstencroft for the East Thames Group, the project, which has a development value of £35m, creates an entrance to Tower Hamlets from the east and lies close ...
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NewsA capital idea
This mixed-use scheme straddling the Grand Union Canal is one of an array of London projects exhibited at an architectural gallery in the capital, which opened this week. The design, by Stiff & Trevillion Architects for Derwent Valley Holdings, is part of an exhibition of the £100bn of regeneration work ...
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NewsMorgan says ‘sorry’ and quits after RICS outburst
Launce Morgan, RICS construction faculty chairman, resigns after labelling the body’s management ‘arrogant’
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Clients to judge specialist contractor awards
Land Securities, Somerfield, Defence Estates, Hammerson, NHS Procure 21 and BAA are among the 13 clients that will be judging Building’s 2005 specialist contractor awards.
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More complaints at GMV
More residents have come forward to complain about noise transmission problems at London’s Greenwich Millennium Village. The development follows an a Building investigation in May, which revealed problems with some apartments in the scheme.
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NewsBroadway in Belfast
Architect Broadway Malyan has been appointed to design a mixed-use scheme on the east bank of the River Lagan in Belfast, in collaboration with local architect Robinson McIlwaine.
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… and there’s nothing to cheer
Research company Experian this week said it expected construction output growth to slow to less than 2% for this year and next.
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Aylesbury estate refurbishment faces axe
Officials are trying to plug a funding gap of “£200-300m” to refurbish the Aylesbury estate in south London.
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Top housing associations have £11.5bn to spend
The 553 largest housing associations in the UK have £8.4bn in unspent credit and plan to borrow £3.1bn each year for the next two years to fund refurbishment and construction.
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Lovell pulls out of bidding for £900m Brent regeneration
Housebuilder Lovell has pulled out of bidding for a £900m 2000-home regeneration project in Brent, north London.
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FeaturesDesigner Power
Gus Alexander heads to Portobello Road, Notting Hill, to take a look at a swanky residential scheme that is a testament to the very hands-on approach of its architect
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FeaturesSimon Vivian begins
Most of Simon Vivian’s six months in charge of Mowlem have been spent struggling with disastrous projects, boardroom bloodletting and a predecessor who didn’t leave. Now he’s finally ready to do it his way. Tom Broughton finds out what he has in mind.
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Comment
The path to follow
The “Pathfinder” demolition programme that you describe (24 June, page 44) sounds just like it was in the 1960s: lots of slum clearance and, to follow, system buildings.