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Trade bodies raise fears over cash for vocational training
Institutions welcome Tomlinson proposals to teach trade skills from age of 14, but warn that no funding is in place
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Shuttleworth beats Gehry to Birmingham station
Ken Shuttleworth’s firm Make has seen off a shortlist that included some of the world’s best known architects to win a transport project in Birmingham.
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Sex gap closes on pay
Female construction workers are closing construction’s sex gap, according to an industry job agency.
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NewsBovis scoops Construction Mana
Bovis Lend Lease stormed to victory in the Construction Manager of the Year Awards this week, scooping the overall title on top of other awards.
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Industry leaders fail to trust or inspire staff
A government report has found that Construction’s leaders fail to inspire their staff – possibly because they do not trust them, writes Sarah Richardson.
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Amazing Guangzhou
Architect Richard Rogers Partnership has released images of its design for a rail station in Guangzhou in China. The station, in the Panyu district, could cost up to £340m and would be the largest in Asia. It will form a network of four key rail hubs in the country, along ...
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US academic brought in to improve design codes
Chris Alexander set to establish Prince’s Foundation-backed research unit at University of Greenwich
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NewsBellway’s record profit bucks market slowdown
Housebuilder makes £200m and is set to achieve forward sales target, despite market gloom
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Mouchel Parkman profit up 43% since merger
Support services group Mouchel Parkman has made a £19.4m profit in the first year since it was formed by a merger.
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Bovis’ £220m hospital deal
Bovis Lend Lease has been given the go-ahead for a £220m PFI cancer centre in Leeds.
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Davis Langdon combines UK regi
Qs Davis Langdon has embarked on a regional restructuring programme to create bigger offices across the UK.
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NewsCountryside results deepen housing gloom
Housebuilder Countryside Properties issued its third negative trading statement in five months last week.
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HOK to conduct science experiment
International architect HOK is seeking to expand its work in London by branching out into science and technology design.
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Sharewatch: Jarvis’ showdown
There were some early fireworks last week as the board of Jarvis faced an angry crowd of shareholders at its annual general meeting.
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Shepherd hits the top in September with £113m win
Five deals push Yorkshire firm into pole position, but Bovis Lend Lease still dominates the annual table
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FeaturesStop the traffic
Stuttgart has not so much lost a large hostile underpass as gained a stunning £48m gallery of modern art, in the form of Hascher Jehle’s perfect glass cube.
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Time to go …
Jon Rouse The question hanging over much of northern England is: how bad does a neighbourhood have to be before the only thing that can improve it is a bulldozer?
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Don’t twist my words
Open mike: Ashley Pigott’s attack on construction management’s drew on statements made at the Fraser inquiry into Holyrood. Here, the man who made them explains what he meant …
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FeaturesThe greatest buildings never built
A dome that would have covered half of Manhattan … a cathedral that would have towered over Liverpool … the National Gallery’s ‘monstrous carbuncle’ … Naomi Stungo looks back over the 10 finest projects that never made it past the concept stage