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Thinktank calls for more glasnost in PFI
A research centre has called on the government to make more information available about PFI projects by extending the NHS' transparency rules to other public services.
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NewsWacky Woking
Housebuilder Barratt continues its series of sculptural buildings with the £23m Centrium development next to Woking station, Surrey. To fit into a narrow, irregular site, Acanthus LW Architects has arranged the 288 dwellings as an undulating block. The scheme also contains shops and restaurants at ground level and 72 affordable ...
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NewsPrizegiving
Architect Aedas has won the education category in this year's Manchester Society of Architects Design Awards. Its winning entry was St Peter's High School in Belle Vue, east Manchester. The design had to strike a balance between providing hard play areas, access and informal social areas. Aedas also received a ...
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Adjudications torn up in £4m Jarvis rail dispute
Troubled rail company Jarvis is locked in a legal battle with rail communications specialist Alstom Signalling over the £90m extension to the Tyne and Wear Metro to Sunderland.
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20% of Scots firms are short of workers
Nearly one in five construction employers in Scotland have vacancies, according to a survey for CITBConstructionSkills.
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NewsChanging Leeds' skyline
Contractor Bovis Lend Lease began on site this week on Bridgewater Place in Leeds.When completed in two years, the £80m development will stand at 32 storeys high and will be the tallest building in the north of England. A mixed-use development that will house the region's ...
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Franklin + Andrews wins gold
The sport and leisure arm of QS Franklin + Andrews has been appointed cost consultant for London's bid to host the Olympics and Paralympics in 2012.
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NewsCity expects Montpellier to suffer £10m operating loss
Construction and property group shares fall one-third after it underprices construction contracts
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FeaturesRemote control
Here's the tale of a struggling M&E firm that couldn't keep track of its nationwide force of mobile engineers and as a result found itself drowning in a sea of paper, none of which was legal tender. We found out how it solved its problems.
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The good within us
We all like to chastise industry sinners for their unfair partnering deals, but who notices the saints? Perhaps if we took more interest in their work we'd learn a thing or two
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Treasury to probe industry's ability to deliver PFI plans
Ministers order review of capacity as government seeks assurances over its spending programme
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FeaturesI'd like that one, please
With just two weeks until the European elections, We canvassed four candidates with fine construction pedigrees and ask them why anyone should care who their MEP is
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FeaturesLet them eat cake
After some years surviving off crumbs of Housing Corporation grant, 71 housing associations are to sit down to a two-year feast as preferred partners with backing for a string of projects. Josephine Smit looks at the impact on development. Data collated and analysed by Irum Malik of Economic Strategies
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NewsReport exposes industry overwork
The heads of small construction companies work as many as 70 hours a week and skip holidays to keep their firms afloat, according to a survey compiled by insurance firm PremierLine
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Nothing left to give?
A government review of construction's ability to refurbish Britain's public services is overdue (see news).
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Bovis future in doubt as Lend Lease bids for property firm
Australian developer likely to sell off UK contractor, possibly to Multiplex, if its £3.6bn bid for rival group succeeds
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Steel shortage set to raise site costs
The surge in the price of steel is set to lead to a 2% increase in the cost of construction projects by the end of the year, according to data from the British Constructional Steelwork Association.
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Terminal 2E: Almost deserted as clear-up gets under way
As the aeroplane descends into Charles de Gaulle airport, the massive glass cylinder that is Terminal 2E glistens in the afternoon sunshine.