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Kier pumps up housing arm with £15m buy
Contractor Kier has expanded its housing division by acquiring south Lincolnshire-based housebuilder Tudor Homes for £15.4m.
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Spring is coming to the office market
As demand for office space increases for the first time in nearly three years, we examine the significance for the hibernating commercial sector. In particular, when will it translate into new buildings?
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FeaturesBeginning of a beautiful friendship?
What's this? Surely it can't be true? The private and public sectors working harmoniously side by side on construction projects? We report on what John Prescott's regeneration cash is doing for workers on both sides of the fence
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Regeneration game
Paul France and Steve Glands from recruitment consultants Hays Montrose discuss the regeneration jobs boom …
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What might have been
If you feel you've lost out on a chance in life through somebody else's fault, you can go to court and watch the judge put a cash figure on it
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The lonely life of the builder
There is, I think, no simple answer as to why construction workers are more likely than others to take their own lives (16 January, page 11). It seems this is not just a UK problem – it may be a universal one in this industry.
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Credit where it's due
We were delighted to see two of our bridge projects, Thames Gateway Bridge and Wembley Bridge, were given coverage (16 February, pages 13 and 15). We would be even more delighted if Halcrow, the engineer that we are working with, was also given credit – particularly as it ...
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C'mon Rudi
Two points arising from Rudi Klein's wishlist ("C'mon everybody", 23 January, page 49).
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A Cambridge correction
With regard to your news story on page 13 of your 30 January issue, "Sir Robert McAlpine in row over £21m Cambridge Lab", there was an adjudication in early 2003 between the University of Cambridge and Sir Robert McAlpine relating to delays to the project, which was settled at the ...
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Riddles and fiddles
You may not be able to find a T5 worker who made £55,000, or explain where Dennis Lenard's 300,000 workers are hiding, but you can get a dodgy CSCS card tomorrow
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NewsDesigner diplomacy
Rem Koolhaas' practice, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, has opened its Dutch Embassy in Berlin. Located on the Rolandufer in the former east Berlin, the structure is an expression of Dutch "openness": one continuous promenade meanders through the eight-level building, a single space excavated out of a cube of generic ...
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Scots parliament inquiry told of meeting with Bovis boss
Former Bovis Lend Lease boss John Anderson met Scottish Office chief architect just weeks before Bovis was awarded the construction management role on the Scottish parliament, it emerged at the Fraser inquiry this week.
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Prescott to spend £155m on North
John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, this week unveiled proposals to spend £155m on improving the quality of life on the Tyne and the Mersey.
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Need more workers? Give us more work
The construction Confederation has called on the government to maintain its present level of capital spending on construction despite the sector's labour shortages.
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NewsDrug-inspired architecture
The £3.6m Institute of Pharmaceutical Innovation at the University of Bradford has been opened by Lord Sainsbury. The research faculty, which was designed by Yorkshire architect Rance Booth & Smith, is arranged in two linear wings joined by an atrium.
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Six vie for Milton Keynes millennium village
Six top housebuilders have been shortlisted to build the 1850 homes that will make up the Millennium Community project at Oak Grove, Milton Keynes.