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Laing lands £350m Dubai airport …
A Laing O'Rourke joint venture has beaten off three rivals, including Balfour Beatty, to win a £350m airport contract in Dubai
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NewsDriving them up the wall
Architectural and sculptural designer Gerry Judah designed this giant wall display for last weekend's Festival of Speed at Goodwood, Sussex. Three Ford GT40 racers, famous for winning first, second and third prizes at Le Mans in 1966, were hung from a 36 m high, 28 m wide structure built out ...
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NewsThe age of aquariums
Plans for the £1.5bn Silvertown Quays redevelopment in east London have been boosted by a £25m cash injection from the Bank of Scotland. This will fund the project through the planning stages. Proposals for the scheme include 3500 homes, 500,000 ft2 of retail and leisure facilities and Europe's largest aquarium, ...
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HBG counts cost of fire damage at hospital site
HBG has called in structural steel specialist Giffords to assess fire damage at its site at the £13m Wharfedale hospital near Leeds.
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Mace leads African eye clinic campaign
Construction manager Mace is spearheading a campaign to fund the building of an African eye hospital.
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NewsHappening Hampstead
SHH architects has been granted planning permission to construct a contemporary house amid the Victorian properties of Denning Road in Hampstead, London. Plans for the 3121 ft2 house include a garage, a south-facing 70 ft long garden and 435 ft2 of verandas. The interior layout is a split-level open-plan concept ...
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News… and then two at once
Strzala Associated Architects of Manchester has designed its second bus station in the North-west. Burnley bus station was completed earlier this year, and now Chorley in Lancashire is open for business. The £2.7m station is designed to airport terminal standards and includes a fully glazed concourse, an automated door ...
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Enterprise wins battle for Thames Water firm
Support services and building maintenance group Enterprise has been named preferred bidder for the purchase of £100m-turnover utilities group Subterra – a division of Thames Water.
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How the East must be won
The government must get a move on with Crossrail if it wants to keep Ken Livingstone quiet.
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Adjudication on the home front
The employers were Mr Legg and Ms Carver, the owners of a house at 188a Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale, London. An architect prepared drawings and a specification for the proposed refurbishment works to the property. The employers were residential occupiers for the purposes of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration ...
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FeaturesCost study: Chemistry building, Queen Mary University
The design of a laboratory is an exercise in technical virtuosity married to an understanding of the social dynamics of a community of undergraduates and researchers. Architect Sheppard Robson, QS Turner & Townsend and contractor Geoffrey Osborne tackled one such demanding brief at Queen Mary University in London – here’s ...
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FeaturesEat to your heart's content
Ruth Rogers, founder of The River Cafe, works on the principle that fresh, healthy ingredients make for delicious meals. Here are her suggestions for the industry, and six tips for a happy heart
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David Curry
Gordon Brown's declaration that current housing finance is a barrier to euro entry has been met with some considerable disdain. What ever will he do now?
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Massive retaliation
Recent changes to the Enterprise Act mean that anyone involved in forming a cartel will face crippling fines, and individual managers could get five years in prison
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For richer, for poorer
Living with your project partner is about as blissfully straightforward as living with the other kind. But, as you mother would say, you've got to work at making it work
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Home truths in Lijnbaan
The RIBA has just taken itself off to Rotterdam to work out what regeneration's all about. And if you think it's a certain city's loft apartments, you'd be much mistaken
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The well-tempered construction worker
A case of wine goes to Gerald Cole for his very funny account of the future site worker
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FeaturesIt makes you sick...
… to discover that many firms are turning a blind eye to the serious long-term health risks that their workers are being exposed to. We diagnose the problems.