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  • Fireworks: More sparks are set to fly in the Cleveland Bridge dispute
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    Multiplex faces High Court action from Saudi Sheikh

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Cleveland Bridge owner set to fight Wembley contractor if result of adjudication next week is unsatisfactory

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    Housebuilders confront ODPM over planning

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    The House Builders’ Federation held a meeting this week with senior ODPM officials to warn the government against introducing planning guidance that it says would permit local authorities to dictate the design of residential schemes.

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    Three vie for Plymouth hospital

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Contractors Amey, Imbregilo and Multiplex have pitched for the £240m Plymouth hospital PFI, allaying fears that the project would attract no tenders

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    Procure 21 ahead of game, says NHS Estates

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    The NHS hospital building initiative Procure 21 has exceeded its five-year turnover target of £1.2bn after one year, according to a senior NHS Estates figure.

  • Sound of music
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    Sound of music

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    This opera house in Copenhagen is the new home of Denmark’s royal theatre.

  • 'Bulky and inelegant': Livingstone attacks RHWL's riverside tower
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    Livingstone lays into RHWL’s design for Waterloo tower

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    London mayor demands redesign of 33-storey Elizabeth House, and calls one aspect as a ‘design disaster’

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    Council rejects Paddington masterplan

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Architect Terry Farrell & Partners’ revised masterplan for the Paddington Health Campus has been strongly criticised by Westminster council.

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    Revised section 106 guidance

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    The government is taking action to speed up the section 106 process with the revision of circular 1/97, the guidance that covers planning obligations such as affordable homes on housing schemes.

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    Multiplex hires Aussie IT firm

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Multiplex has hired a fellow Australian firm to put its two biggest UK projects – Wembley national stadium and the White City retail scheme – on line.

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    CABE savages Leicester Tigers’ stadium

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    CABE has panned proposed developments around the home of the rugby team Leicester Tigers, in Welford Road, Leicester.

  • Fresh-faced Londoner
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    Fresh-faced Londoner

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Designed by GMW Architects, this redevelopment at London Bridge has transformed a grade II-listed Victorian building to provide 4850 m2 of modern offices.

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    The future’s Orangery

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    This dining pavilion at The Children’s Hospital in Great Ormond Street, central London, has just been completed by architect SpacelabUK.

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    Failed fit-out firm Spectrum owes £9m to creditors

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Report by administrator Rothman Pantall says £8.89m is outstanding to subcontractors and Inland Revenue

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    Mayor gives go-ahead for £3.5b

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

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    Welcome to Liverpool

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    National agency English Partnerships and regeneration company Liverpool Vision have unveiled plans to transform Lime Street Station in Liverpool to create a gateway to the city for visitors.

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    John Laing quits troubled Hackney estate scheme

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder pulls out of £80m Haggerston West regeneration scheme citing ‘commercial reasons’ for decision

  • Don't supersize me
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    Don’t supersize me

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    The Peabody Trust’s latest exercise in modular housing at Barons Place, west London, houses key workers in compact-and-bijou microflats. We mind our head and step inside a new fun-sized way of living.

  • Happy hour
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    Happy hour

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Times are good for quantity surveyors, with charge-out rates up by as much as 50% since 2002 and most sectors looking decidedly flush. We drink in Mirza & Nacey’s latest survey on how much a cost consultant costs

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    Dear site diary

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Project manager Andrew Farrer extols the virtues of keeping a comprehensive works log – if only to provide valuable evidence in the event of a dispute

  • Externally, the original Portland stone was cleaned and repaired and the original bronze windows were waxed and polished.
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    An inside job

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Breaking into the former NatWest HQ was the easy part. Ripping the heart out of it to create state-of-the-art offices while preserving the listed facade, banking hall and directors’ suites, and shifting 1000 lorry-loads of rubble without disturbing the heavyweight neighbour – well, that needed something like a plan … ...