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NewsThe hound's off the leash
The £75m redevelopment of Baskerville House, one of Birmingham's most prominent landmarks, has been given the green light by the council's planning committee. The project will incorporate the building's grade II-listed interior with 18,584 m2 of office space and a basement health club. The floorplates will be modified to ...
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Contractors team up for £1.4bn-a-year NHS deal
Several teams of contractors have emerged as potential bidders for the £1.4bn-a-year national implementation of the Procure 21 hospital building programme
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War: What it is good for
There's a stockbrokers' adage about trading in times of conflict: "Sell on the sabre-rattle, buy on the battle".
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Five in running for Coventry masterplan
Architects Levitt Bernstein and HTA head a five-strong shortlist to oversee the £200m redevelopment of four rundown housing estates in Coventry.
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NewsMerthyr Tydfil to get £250m revamp
Developer Merthyr Village is to kick off a £250m regeneration project in the Welsh town this summer.
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NewsSecond delivery
Balfour Beatty has won the £32m design-and-build contract for phase two of the redevelopment Edinburgh's post office. The building, in Waterloo Place, is to become offices. Balfour is completing the first phase of the project – demolition of the core and retention of the grade A-listed facades. The offices will ...
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Adjaye and Future Systems vie for £6.5m gallery
Architects Adjaye Associates and Future Systems have been shortlisted to design a £6.5m gallery for the contemporary visual arts in Shoreditch, east London.
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Top 20 QS buys London-based rival
Top 20 QS Robinson Lowe Francis has acquired London-based competitor Cross & Hall, and plans to launch a consultancy division this summer.
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Llewellyn arm is bought out
Forge Llewellyn, a subsidiary of contractor Rok, has completed a management buyout.
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Setting the record straight
The contractor carried out works to a residential home. The contract was, therefore, not a "construction contract" as defined in the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. However, the contract was the JCT Minor Works, 1998 edition including MW11. The amendment incorporated adjudication provisions and so the parties were ...
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Oh, what a dreary war
The never-ending build up to the war with Iraq is making markets nervous and threatening to tip the global economy into recession. The construction industry may not be immune
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Local lowdown
In the latest of his series on regional job markets, Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose looks at the South Coast, where QSs are in BIG demand
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Going steady
This month, although the outlook for the industry remains positive, the rate of growth looks set to fall from the dizzy heights of 2002
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Construction orders grew 8% in 2002
Construction orders rose 8% last year compared with the previous year, despite fears of an economic slump after the attacks on the World Trade Centre.
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Of Mies and men
Mies van der Rohe's failure to win an architectural competition in 1910 gives us an insight into a fascinating in-between period in the careers of artists
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FeaturesCalifornia SW6
The latest addition to the grey streets of west London is CZWG's crazily (and controversially) coloured Fulham Island. Even on a snowy winter morning, this mixed-use development-cum-fairground attraction conjures up sunshine and California beaches.
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NewsBetter yet
The Peabody Trust had a simple brief for Feilden Clegg Bradley: take the lessons learned from prefabrication at Murray Grove and Raines Dairy and do better. We find how the architect did just that
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David Curry
Prescott's communities plan may mean well – despite upsetting Daily Mail readers – but it still creates more questions than it answers