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  • News

    Erinaceous set to take AIM and acquire

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Building consultant and facilities manager Erinaceous Group sees its proposed AIM status as a springboard for future acquisitions.

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    O'Rourke ends rumours of key boss quitting

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Speculation that a regional head at Laing O'Rourke is on the brink of leaving has been knocked on the head by the disclosure that he has in fact been away from his office on a study course

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    Mobile ban will hurt contractors

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Contractors could face huge bills in the wake of government legislation prohibiting the use of handheld mobile phones in cars

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    M&E firm hits trouble after collapse of Sunley Turriff

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Maxwell Stewart loses £300,000-plus and seven staff after problems on two contracts with insolvent group.

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    Prescott champions body to deliver Olympic site targets

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    ODPM proposes giant urban development corporation to push through regeneration of key east London areas.

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    Rafael Moneo wins over the RIBA with timeless approach

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Spanish architect – a follower of form and function, not fashion – is awarded Royal Gold Medal at the age of 67.

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    Heseltine comes clean over decay

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    More than two decades of urban decay in Lewisham and the Greenwich Peninsular in south-east London was the result of a snap change of heart by former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine

  • Features

    Just the job

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Kenyan Sohail Alam of M&E firm CommTech only came to England five years ago – but he's already set to go global with his mechanical engineering skills

  • Comment

    Hansom

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    This week, our man with the Fred Astaire cane sees a colleague pressed into a press launch, gets a lesson in fluency and catches up on the future of retail

  • Comment

    Green ideas, grey areas

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Carbon-counting websites, environmental profiles, tax breaks for investors in renewable energy… Good ideas? Well, only if they're thought up by the right people

  • Features

    shh … Abalos & Herreros' dreamlike library is too good for words

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    The Usera Library in Madrid doesn't seem entirely real – more like a building you might encounter in a dream.

  • Features

    How did we get here?

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    10 years of failure and a way forward

  • News

    Brave new homes

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    To date, off-site manufacture has been more about hype than homes. But with the Housing Corporation pushing standardised housetypes, the time may be ripe for the production-line solution to revolutionise the market. We assemble the story

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    Norris to be confirmed as Jarvis chairman on Tuesday

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Conservative London mayoral candidate Steven Norris will be confirmed as chairman of embattled support services group Jarvis next Tuesday.

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    UK firms set for Iraq talks

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    British contractors are preparing for two international conferences next month in Jordan, focusing on the reconstruction of Iraq.

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    Foreign Office boxes clever

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Foreign Office Architects has won a competition to design the BBC's £22m music centre at White City, west London. The project, dubbed the Music Box, is expected to open in 2006. It will house the BBC Symphony Orchestra and provide two state-of-the-art studios. It will also have an audience capacity ...

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    Subcontractors team up to recover Ballast losses

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Subcontractors owed large sums by failed contractor Ballast are continuing to join forces in an attempt to recover their money.

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    Prescott gives go-ahead to Shard of Glass

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    London Bridge Tower, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, has finally been granted planning approval by deputy prime minister John Prescott.

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    Sainsburys sues WSP over store damage

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Supermarket chain J Sainsbury has issued a writ against consulting engineer WSP over a superstore on the south coast of England.

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    Curtain up

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    England's oldest working theatre, the Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire, has been restored at a cost of £1.5m. The original Georgian auditorium, built in 1788, has been redecorated to appear as it did two centuries ago.The redesign was by Allen Tod Architecture of Leeds, the refurbishment by ...