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NewsUrban Catalyst goes rural
Developer Urban Catalyst is to expand its portfolio to include rural development
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Curzon Holdings to axe 50 jobs
Curzon Holdings, the parent company of fit-out specialist Jarvis Newman, is to lay off one-seventh of its workforce.
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NewsOn the waterfront
A team including architect Building Design Partnership and developer ING has won a competition to develop Waterfront City, an £180m masterplan for the docklands of Melbourne, Australia. The team beat a group headed by local firm MAB to win the contract for the project, which will include housing, entertainment and ...
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Carillion in £100m cliffhanger
Contractor Carillion could seal two major central London contracts worth a total of £100m in the next month.
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Jailed director released after three days
The jailed director of Irish housebuilder Kilkishen Homes has been granted a reprieve after spending three days in prison.
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NewsFit for the purpose
Fitness industry giant Aspria opened its latest health club in Alstertal in Hamburg, Germany, at the end of last year. The £9m facility, measuring some 11,000 m2 – the largest in the Aspria chain – was designed by UK architect Colwyn Foulkes & Partners with Stiff + Trevillion Architects. ...
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NewsThat's the point
At 120 m, Ian Ritchie's Dublin spire has been hailed as the tallest sculpture in the world. Last week, Ireland's largest crane put in place the final piece of the spire, which is part of a project to regenerate O'Connell Street, the capital's main thoroughfare.
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Rogers is back on Welsh assembly
Richard Rogers is back on board to design the much-delayed Welsh assembly scheme, 18 months after his practice was sacked from the project when it overran the £27m budget, writes Clive Betts in Cardiff.
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NewsAukett's results are 'poorest for many years'
Aukett, The UK's only listed architect, issued its worst annual results for years this week, posting a pre-tax loss of more than £2.4m.
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The pleasures of privacy
If there was ever a moment for firms to consider going private, this is it.
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In the docks
In 1997 the Ministry of Defence employed Devonport Royal Dockyard (DML) as main contractor for the upgrading of a dockyard. In turn, DML employed Carillion to upgrade the number nine dock, and provide new buildings and associated infrastructure. That contract was contained in two documents, a subcontract and an alliance ...
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Stock options
With the relentless fall in the stock market leaving many construction shares severely undervalued, is now the time for firms to consider going private?
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Construction degrees will be extinct in 10 years, says shock report
Last building student will enter university in 2012 if present rate of decline in applications continues.
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Terminal 5 deal sparks fears of national M&E crisis
Contractors are predicting a crisis in the M&E sector in the wake of last week’s £55,000 pay deal for craftsmen working for Laing O’Rourke at Heathrow Terminal 5.The agreement has led to predictions that electricians on the £2.6bn terminal would respond by asking for as much as £75,000. Amicus, the ...
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Consultants find their true worth
Construction professionals make a greater contribution to Britain's national wealth than all its publishers, pop groups, television stations and film companies put together, according to a report to be published by the Construction Industry Council.The CIC found that consultants are making a growing contribution to the UK's national wealth. Total ...
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The planning blighters
For the past decade, planners have told housebuilders to develop live–work units. Their dream was to turn desolate inner cities into hives of lucrative information-age industries. So why have they done their best to make sure it didn't come true?
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Freezing points
What scope does a court have to order that an adjudicator's award to a firm in financial difficulties be paid into court? Baldwins vs Barr may tell us …
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FeaturesBombs away
It's all very well building brand new terror-proof skyscrapers, but how do you protect all the old buildings that so many of our offices are based in? We discovered a simple solution that just blew him away …