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NewsChanging Thames
Contractor Wates Construction has completed this office block on the south bank of the River Thames at London Bridge. The project, designed by GMW, involved the retention of a grade II-listed building and the creation of an entrance from the bridge, a glazed internal atrium and an additional floor. ...
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NewsBuilding named best business magazine
Building has been named the UK's best business magazine for third time in six years.
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Latham group to focus on late payments
Sir Michael Latham has unveiled plans to review provisions of the Construction Act over late payment and non-payment.
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NewsCleared for take-off
Contractor Gleeson has completed a £20m contract to build a three-star hotel near City Airport in Docklands. The Ramada Hotel, for client Lanos Investments, is next to London's ExCel exhibition centre. It has 153 standard rooms and 71 long-stay suites. Designed by architect BUJ, it comprises three blocks of six, ...
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NewsReady for the off
Building Design Partnership has unveiled this £34m redevelopment of Aintree racecourse in Merseyside. Its plans include a grandstand, a weighing room and a stable complex. Work is scheduled to start after next year's Grand National and should be completed in time for the 2007 meeting.
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MPs attack Home Office over headquarters PFI deal
THE House of Commons' public accounts committee this week criticised the government for its handling of the procurement of the £311m Home Office headquarters and called for better planning of PFI deals.
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NewsAll's well in sunny Surrey
Wandsworth Primary Care Trust and Catalyst Healthcare have signed a contract for the £55m PFI redevelopment of the Queen Mary Hospital, Roehampton, Surrey. The 139-bed community facility is due to be completed in December next year. Bovis Lend Lease will handle design and construction, Lend Lease Facilities Management will ...
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FeaturesNothing doing
The Paddington Health Campus was always going to be problematic, but nobody expected it to take so long to do so little, or for costs to rise from £360m to £827m. We tell the inside story of the PFI hospital from hell
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Shula, I've been thinking
Using oilseed rape as a fuel, whether popularised on The Archers or not, could be the answer to getting communities to embrace renewable energy
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FeaturesCost study: Scottish gas headquarters
Built on a former gasworks (appropriately), Scottish Gas’ HQ is an elegant and energy-efficient addition to Edinburgh’s rapidly changing waterfront. Architect Foster and Partners, environmental engineer Battle McCarthy and cost consultant Davis Langdon explain how they did it.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Anthony Wilson picks two modern Mancunian buildings, one a triumph of architectural art, the other … er, you’d better read it yourself
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NewsCracking the safety conundrum
Construction's safety record may be improving – slowly – but a 5% decrease in site deaths over five years simply isn't good enough. The industry is out of time to hit that 40%-by-next-year target … So what now?
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A pricing problem
The defendant desired to sell his property, No.1 Horbury Mews and engaged the claimant (an estate agent) to assist him. On the advice of the claimant the defendant agreed, on the 29 June 2001, to market his property at £1.5m. An offer from a third party was received and accepted. ...
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Glazed in glory
Rick Mather's Lincoln School of Architecture, shoehorned into a small site next to a railway track, is a triumph of design ingenuity. We find out how specifiying the right windows made all the difference
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All becomes clear
Rick Mather Architects knows that when designing a minimalist building, its windows have a great bearing on its appearance.