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NewsMSPs given false Holyrood cost estimate
The real cost estimate of the Scottish parliament building was withheld from MSPs when they voted to go ahead with it in 1999, the Fraser inquiry heard this week.
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BAA cuts Richard Rogers out of design framework deal
Foster, Grimshaw, Parr, Ruddle Wilkinson and Reid all land five-year contracts as airport operator drops five firms
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Call to end student planners' debt
The chairman of the Local Government Association has called on the government to arrest the fall in the number of planning officers by helping graduate planners pay off college debts
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NewsLewisham scraps Alsop masterplan and starts over
£45m New Cross Gate development is reopened to competition after ‘aspirational’ plans are snubbed
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NewsGaunt Francis maps out Formula 1 academy
Architect Gaunt Francis has designed a £4m training centre for racing drivers at the Silverstone track in Northamptonshire.
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Just the job
Colin James tells us how he used his construction background to found his own IT consultancy
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The couch brigade
Billions have been earmarked for new schools and hospitals, but who's going to build them? Either we rely on the Europeans – or we poach a few psychiatrists
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Costa bundle
Forward funding agreements for property in Spain are almost as popular as beach resorts. But you'd better know how Spanish law treats them or risk paying out
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FeaturesHot stuff: Top 10 industry issues
We run down the juiciest topics of conversation in the industry this year
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FeaturesThe best of what happened
Here's a month-by-month summary of the biggest news stories to catch our eye throughout the year
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Simon's saga, part two
His credentials in construction law were impeccable, his experience undeniable, his preparations unquestionable. Here's how his home improvement went down the pan
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CommentWonders & blunders
Ben Schott likes nothing better than a glass of dry sherry in Barry's Reform Club, but the London Eye gives him a funny turn
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NewsFury as DTI rules out probe of Ballast Nedam directors
Victims of Ballast collapse express outrage as government says its hands are tied over activities of Dutch parent
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NewsBattersea gets powered up
Bovis Lend Lease has been appointed construction manager for the largest private urban regeneration scheme in the UK at Battersea power station, south London.The £600m scheme, developed by Parkview International, has received detailed planning permission and involves building over an area of 515,000 m2 on a 15 ha site. The ...
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NewsBreaking China
British architect Zaha Hadid, in association with long-standing collaborator Patrik Schumacher and Urban Design consultant Ricky Burdett, has completed the masterplan for the 32.5 ha SoHo China development in Beijing, China. The plan combines exhibition, residential and green spaces, and aims to create an alternative urban heart for China's capital. ...
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Prescott sets out his stall for town centres
Retailers are to be encouraged to develop in town and city centres under a revised planning policy statement issued by deputy prime minister John Prescott.