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Features
Market forecast: Steady on up
In this quarter’s overview of the construction market, Davis Langdon reports a continued growth in output, orders, tender prices and material costs. Plus, this month’s hot topic is public spending
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FeaturesHot topic: Public sector spending
Davis Langdon focuses on public sector spending, and finds government targets for hospitals, schools and housing will keep the industry busy over the next three years
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ODPM fudges Part L revisions
Carbon emission targets promised by the government for the new energy regulations have been watered down by a “sleight of hand” according to critics.
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European drive to improve industry’s ethics
The European Construction Industry Federation will pressurise members to improve ethics and environmental management under sustainability guidance to be published this June.
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NewsRound house
Contractor Wates has just started work on architect Cartwright Pickard’s housing scheme in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
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NewsEnfield’s big spree
Costain has started work on Enfield PalaceXchange, a £60m mixed-use town-centre development in Enfield, north London, designed by REID architecture for ING Real Estate Development.
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NewsFaithful & Gould launches megaprojects ‘wizard’
Quantity surveyor develops computer application to plan and execute major clients’ investment strategies
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Would you pass the safety test?
Just how easy are safety tests? And what happens when a site nurse diagnoses a medical problem? We went on the road with two mobile units to find out
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CABE and MCG team up to cut hospital PFI design bills
Old adversaries join forces to standardise PFI design reviews and help reduce contractors’ bid costs
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Roofer blew whistle on cartel ‘after blackmail threat’
Roofing firm Briggs exposed the illicit cartel it was involved in to OFT after being blackmailed over its activities
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NewsCrystalline tower
Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron has designed a crystalline tower clad in irregularly textured aluminium mesh as the centrepiece of this art centre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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NewsWelcoming wards
A £60m children’s hospital, designed by Hopkins Architects and billed as “a hospital that does not feel like a hospital”, is due to open this autumn across the River Thames from the Palace of Westminster.
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High-gloss paint to be banned by 2010
Decorators are to be banned from using high-gloss paint on houses and buildings from 2010 under a European Union directive to cut pollution
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Industry backs migrant worker induction scheme
Industry groups and the Home Office this week backed proposals for a compulsory integration programme for migrant workers in the UK construction industry.
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Jarvis on ‘rough ride’ line
Support services firm Jarvis has taken over renewal work on the West Coast Main Line between London and Glasgow after contractor Mowlem was banned from rail renewal projects this week.
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All change for construction in Blair’s latest reshuffle
Alun Michael expected to be given construction portfolio in new Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry
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NewsLibeskind rethinks design of 9/11 tall tower
Nina Liebskind, the wife and business partner of Daniel Libeskind, the architect designing the replacement for the twin towers in New York, has admitted the building could be delayed by up to eight months because of design changes to improve security.
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NewsScissor sister
Zaha Hadid has provided a new nerve centre for BMW’s giant plant in Leipzig, central Germany.
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Industry acts after training record is blasted
The Major Contractors Group and CITB-ConstructionSkills are to pilot a scheme to guarantee apprenticeships for construction students, as a hard-hitting report criticises the industry’s training record this week