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NewsVoyage of discovery
A consortium led by architect Austin Smith:Lord has beaten five other shortlisted teams to design the Ashford Discovery Centre in Kent. The £10m building celebrates the importance of Ashford International Station to the town centre. The building, which is bounded by a ring road and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, ...
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Multiplex top favourite for 50-storey tower
Contractor Multiplex is tipped to build one of the tallest residential towers in Europe after winning the preconstruction services contract
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NewsOlympic bid team considers T5-style framework deals
London 2012 report to examine BAA’s procurement method – and plans emerge for post-games cultural legacy
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NewsPrivate housebuilders hail ‘great opportunities’ in spending review
Gordon Brown announces extra £1bn for housing over next three years, some of which goes to private
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Industrys number crunchers chew over the details
Chancellor Gordon Brown has raised the government’s capital expenditure in public services over the next three years by 7.5% in real terms.
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Network Rail to hire top QSs
Consultancy firms face a battle to hang on to their top quantity surveyors after Network Rail was allocated more money to employ more of its own staff
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Rogers’ tall ambitions in China
Architect Richard Rogers Partnership is pitching for a series of skyscrapers in the Chinese city of Guangzhou
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Cost of hazardous waste disposal to rocket
The cost of disposing hazardous waste could triple when the European Landfill Directive is brought in this month, industry experts have warned.
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NewsBeyond beer
Architect ESA has received planning consent for a mixed-use leisure and retail centre in Cheltenham for developer Salmon Harvester. The 23,000 m2 project will integrate two existing buildings on the site of the former Whitbread brewery. The solution satisfied the local planners, who were keen to ensure the developer was ...
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News£800m health campus may be saved by land transplant
St Mary’s NHS Trust looks at using developer Chelsfield’s land for ailing PFI scheme in Paddington, London
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Concrete group defends House of Commons barriers
A concrete lobby group has hit out over a call by security service MI5 to replace the concrete blocks protecting the Houses of Parliament with steel barriers.
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Clergy sue over tower damage
Angry clergy at a Kent church are suing contractor RMD Kwikform for £355,000 after its scaffolding damaged the church tower.
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NewsAsite faces ‘passing off’ claim from software rival
BIW Technologies consults lawyers over Asite’s collaboration software, which it says is too similar to its own
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NewsManchester scores!
Manchester council has appointed a consortium led by Kerzner International and Ask Developments to develop a £260m casino and an entertainment centre at Sportcity in east Manchester. Ian Simpson Architects will design the complex at Sportcity, already the home of Manchester City FC. It will include a hotel, a 4000-seat ...
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Features‘What happened to Pat cannot be allowed to happen to anybody ever again’
On 15 January, Patrick O’Sullivan was killed while working on the Wembley national stadium project. His family tells us that those responsible must be held to account
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FeaturesA giant leap for a brickie
Behrokh Khoshnevis has seen the future of construction, and it involves robotic arms, multiple nozzles and buildings that can be put up in hours in either Basildon or the Sea of Serenity. The University of Southern California professor tells us about the technology that he believes will be commonplace in ...
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FeaturesAscent 112
The astonishing arch that will support the new Wembley National Stadium had to be tilted through 112° to reach its present position. We find out how it was done
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Wonders & blunders
We walked for two days to find an inspiring eco-lodge, but just walked in circles at an ill-fated French airport
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FeaturesGet on board
When the architect of Walthamstow's bus station had to cut costs on the stunning roof, it needed the whole team to work together in order to reach the destination.