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Sir Robert McAlpine loses £24m on PFI hospital
Contractor announces ‘exceptionally poor’ year as West Midlands scheme leads to overall loss of £19.9m
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O’Rourke slams ‘top-heavy’ Laing regime
Ray O’Rourke has criticised the former leadership at Laing, the family contractor he bought for £1 in 2001, saying it had been top-heavy with management. O’Rourke said that the merged company Laing O’Rourke had gone back to basics. He said: “Laing started by building houses in Scotland. It didn’t start ...
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Last-ditch talks over V&A spiral
The fate of architect Daniel Libeskind’s £70m spiral extension to the Victoria and Albert museum in South Kensington, London, will be decided at a meeting of museum trustees in September
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Ratcliffe calls for more HSE inspectors
The Construction Confederation has backed a Department for Work and Pensions select committee report that calls for more health and safety inspectors in the industry.The confederation told the committee that the Health and Safety Executive was too stretched to do more than react to events.The National Audit Office found that ...
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Sunrise
Centre de SolarJohn McAslan + Partners has been selected to design and build the 140,000 m2 Centre de Solar development in Beijing, its second major commission in the Chinese capital. The project, on a ring road in the north-east of the city, is a mixed-use scheme planned for completion in ...
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Contractors in secret talks over Oxford animal lab
University determined to press on with the project despite campaign by activists and withdrawal by Montpellier
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EP dismisses fears over sustainability standards
English Partnerships has played down fears that developers bidding for its London-Wide Initiative will be able to turn a blind eye to sustainability standards.EP met the five bidding consortiums last week and told them they could issue bids that were non-compliant with its standards on sustainability, good design or modern ...
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Skanska tipped for Wharf win
Contractor Skanska was this week tipped to win the £60m next stage of developer Ballymore’s New Providence Wharf development in London Docklands
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Skills academy mooted for Thames Gateway
The London Development Agency is to fund a study that could lead to the establishment of a construction skills academy in the capital.Consultant Ecotec will examine whether an academy is needed to deliver the government’s housebuilding programme in the Thames Gateway.The study, which will be released in September, will conclude ...
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Against the grain
Cranfields flour millsJohn Lyall Architects has gained planning consent for a £35m mixed-use redevelopment of the former Cranfields flour mills on the Ipswich waterfront. A 23-storey tower of flats will replace 15-storey concrete grain silos to become the town’s tallest building. Developer Wharfside Regeneration is in discussion with Mowlem ...
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The tyranny of taste
The dead hand of totalitarian modernism should be prised from the shoulders of living architects: it was no more than a style among many others
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Arsenal goes large
Royal Arsenal, WoolwichBerkeley Homes this week submitted its largest ever planning application, for the next phase of the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, south-east London. The proposal, submitted jointly with the London Development Agency, confirms the shift by the Berkeley Group to urban regeneration. The plan would provide 3000 homes and ...
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CITB urges Home Office to fund migrant worker scheme
Training body plans ‘integration package’ to give foreign workers language and health and safety skills
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Half of buyers think new homes are poor quality
More than half of house buyers believe the quality of workmanship and materials of new-build homes is inadequate. The finding emerged in a survey of the attitudes of almost a thousand homebuyers, published this week. The survey shows that prospective buyers want more information from housebuilders. Almost 90% of people ...
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Business and pleasure
Stonebridge ParkThe Liverpool Land Development Company has been given permission to build an environment-friendly business centre in Stonebridge Park in the Gilmoss area of Liverpool. The 29 ha park will also provide the community with cycling and fishing amenities. The project will be managed by Cass Associates with St Modwen ...
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Experts dismiss report into Paris airport disaster
French government blames concrete deterioration – but structural engineers point to a design oversight
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Counting all the costs
In the issue of 16 July, your leader referred to “consistently reduced construction costs”, and Alistair McAlpine commented that “a cheap price and a silver tongue” were generally accepted as “an alternative to expertise”.
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A binding non-binding decision
Tim Elliott (16 July, page 51) applauds the decision of His Honour Judge Thornton in William Verry Ltd vs North West London Communal Mikrah.
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Neanderthal Man alive and well
I was rather surprised to read your comment “Neanderthal Man no longer roams the sites of the land, terrorising small contractors with the assistance of fine legal minds” (16 July, page 3). My job for the past 10 years has been to defend my employer (a subcontractor) against precisely that. ...
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A reader writes: The facts of death
After our interview with the family of Patrick O’Sullivan, who was killed on the Wembley site, a reader gives us his experience of a fatality during a concrete pour