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Toolkits for housing PFIs
The government is to provide a toolkit to help local authorities implement its troubled PFI housing schemes.
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Three vie for £30m Oldham library
Teams led by Kier, Gleeson and David McLean have been shortlisted to build a civic centre-style library in Oldham
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Sixty-eight specialists in awards shortlist
Sixty-eight firms have been shortlisted for Building's first Specialist Contractor Awards, in association with the DTI.
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NewsNelson the victorious
Malcolm Nelson of Laing O'Rourke has been named Construction Manager of the Year by the Chartered Institute of Building.
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Client body to go ahead after DTI agrees funds
An umbrella group for clients is to be launched in December, after the government agreed to provide funding for it.
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QS institute is launched
The Quantity Surveyors Institute, a professional body set up to compete with the RICS, is poised to sign up 1000 members and will grow to 6000 in five years, claimed founder Roger Knowles this week.
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Arts centre team may face claim after roof collapse
The Team that built an arts centre in Liverpool will shortly discover if they face a claim for a roof collapse in April this year.
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CIS appeals may cost £50,000
Contractors that are refused CIS tax scheme certificates may soon also lose their right to appeal against the decision
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NewsRoyle approval for building movie
Comedy actor and former builder Ricky Tomlinson has been asked to star in a film about the working lives of a team of painters and decorators.
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NewsGoing for a spin
Architect Ron Arad Associates has unveiled this showroom for car manufacturer Maserati in the Italian city of Modena.
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NewsHigh hopes
The Wilkinson Eyre-designed 'Bridge of Aspiration' that connects the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, central London, was one of the shortlisted entries in the innovation category at the Wood Awards on Wednesday night.
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NewsWater rebirth
Alsop Architects this week unveiled a masterplan to redevelop Bradford's city centre. Under the plan, prepared for urban regeneration company Bradford Centre Regeneration, the city is to get its own waterfront, with a park to be created around a lake in front of City Hall. The Alsop plan to ...
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Are you being served?
When people design their own offices, they create a very different product from that typically offered by spec developers. And thereby hangs a tale
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FeaturesHow's this for a high court?
Richard Roger's design brief for Antwerp's law courts was to create a roof that would add interest to the city's monotonous skyline. So the project team put geometrical thinking caps on and came up with some tall and dramatic shapes, as we found out
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A matter of conduct
The claimant, Corenso (UK) Limited supplied the defendant ("Burnden") with coreboard from its French factory. Burnden received a number of complaints from its customers about the quality of the coreboard, which led to them making a complaint to Corenso in September 2000. Corenso's solicitors responded to the complaint, and proceedings ...
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Ballast Nedam amputates UK arm
Long-troubled UK PFI specialist Ballast goes into administration after being left for dead by Dutch parent group.
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NewsThe green lobby wants low energy, sustainable, recyclable ecohomes:
is this what they have in mind?We report on the escalating demands of the environmental pressure groups
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Ginger's bad fur day
When a decorator spills paint over your moggy, ruining his chances in the cat show, do you have a claim? Claws out for the 'but for' test