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NewsQueen of kiosks
Italian architects Riccardo Bianchini and Federica Lusiardi have fought off 211 entries to win a RIBA competition to design a structure for Cleopatra's Kiosk on the north bank of the Thames in London. The other two designs on the shortlist were by Bath-based practice Rees Smyth Vermont and Aberdeen-based ...
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NewsComing in to land
Reid Architecture has unveiled the first images of a landmark air traffic control tower at Edinburgh Airport for BAA Scottish Airports. The 57 m high tower is to be located on a main access road and will have a car-free zone around it to safeguard against potential terrorist bomb blasts. ...
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Rail work is the fast track to growth
Half of the fastest growing construction firms in the UK are rail contractors, according to The Sunday Times.
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Back from the dead
Just when it appeared to be gently ebbing away, construction's strategic forum has sprung back to life.
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Multiplex and Ferrovial in £250m PFI bid
Two foreign contractors have made the shortlist for a £250m PFI hospital project in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
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McAslan enters Africa with Morocco museum
Architect John McAslan + Partners has expanded into North Africa with the design of a multicultural centre and an archaeological museum in Morocco.
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£30,000 fine for site death
A property developer has had to pay out a total of £40,000 after a fireball on site left a worker with horrific burns from which he later died.
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NewsFlagging enthusiasm
Victorious England rugby players were greeted with a huge St George flag unfurled on the front of a construction site during their World Cup celebration parade in central London on Monday. The 94 × 16 m flag hung in front of the £53m West 8 site on Regent Street, which ...
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You have to agree to disagree
This is a decision of the Court of Appeal. Wilson maintained both during the adjudication and before Judge MacKay (at a hearing to enforce that decision at first instance) that the contract that was the subject of the adjudication had been made not with him personally but with a company, ...
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The missing millions
There was little to reassure Ballast's subcontractors at Tuesday's creditors' meeting.
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Appointments
Housebuilders Weybridge-based Persimmon Homes South East has appointed Mike Ackling health and safety adviser for the South-east.Eamonn McInerney has joined Charles Church South Midlands as regional sales director.Wates Developments has promoted Jonny Wates to group strategic marketing director. Neil Simpson joins as sales and marketing director and Peter Gurr, ...
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Keller warns of 10% profit shortfall
Construction services group Keller issued a profit warning this week.
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FeaturesLaurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Don't be fooled by the foppish style: Britain's favourite interior designer is set to have a say in the way we build entire towns. Which may be of interest to Prince Charles … we find out more.
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It could be you
Imagine making a mistake that makes you liable for more money than a Lotto jackpot – and then finding you don't have PI cover. How likely is that?
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FeaturesGoing Ballastic
Thousands of furious workers and suppliers are banging on the door of Ballast, demanding their money and claiming they were misled about the firm's financial position. Will a creditors' meeting later this month do anything to pacify them?
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News264 variations were made to Holyrood in November
Fraser inquiry scrutinises Bovis' appointment and behaviour of Enric Miralles as yet more bad news emerges
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NewsTheakston plans to take gap year
John Theakston, the chief executive of Swan Hill, will take up to a year off work once his departure from the housebuilder is confirmed later this month
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CommentGive 'em their due
Stonecarvers at the Royal Courts of Justice job in 1880 lost out when the employer withheld money. If only they'd had the Construction Act to protect them …
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NewsNedam faces legal threat from Ballast collapse victims
Subcontractors are turning wrath on Dutch parent firm, which they say promised to make good Ballast debts
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Occupational health plan faces cash crisis
The Health and Safety Executive has admitted that plans for a national occupational health scheme for the construction industry could be shelved because of lack of money.