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NewsFoster awaiting take-off
The shortlisted designs for the £400m Terminal 3 project at Beijing Capital International Airport were released to the public this week. Pictured left is the submission by architect Foster and Partners, consultant Arup and Dutch airport planner NACO. The expansion will increase capacity from 27 to 60 million passengers a ...
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NewsRedrow steels itself for 50% increase in housing output
Housebuilder sets target of 6000 units, partly through steel frame venture, as it joins £100m pre-tax profit club.
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Interserve shrugs off 44% fall in profit
Support services group Interserve has announced a 44.2% fall in interim pre-tax profit.
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The heat is on
As the government plans to rein in energy emissions from buildings, a leaked document gives manufacturers and contractors an idea of just how stringent the Part L regulations are about to become
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Four acts, one scene
The claimant, Thames Water, sought to recover its full costs of work carried out on a sewer necessitated by the construction of the Jubilee Line by the defendant, London Underground. London Underground contended it was only liable for 82% of the expense incurred by Thames Water as the work to ...
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Cut to the bone
If anybody on a site ever heard the great and good discussing Egan reforms, it would sound like a sermon on brotherly love delivered in the middle of a firefight
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NewsMiller Homes to open two more offices in England
Edinburgh-based housebuilder plans to win work on back of NHS deal and new communities plan.
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Prescott's homes drive set to trample small housebuilders
Bovis Homes boss says firms worth less than £100m will be shut out of plan to build 1 million homes in South-east.
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NewsTreasury to launch PFI charm offensive
The Treasury is planning to begin a PR offensive to counter unions' attacks on the PFI
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NewsSkanska faces six-month delay on £85m Moor House job
Contractor admits technical difficulties are delaying City office – but denies writ is pending on Abbey National HQ.
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Call for legal limit on office heat
Building services provider Mitie has called for the introduction of legal maximum temperatures in offices after Britain's hottest recorded summer
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Government tests industry's capacity to do school work
Whitehall calls in Ernst & Young to assess industry's ability to carry out £60bn school refurb programme.
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NewsAukett in line for Sky studio
Television broadcaster Sky has enlisted architect Aukett Europe to assess plans for a studio in west London
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NewsIndustry to lobby DTI for tougher adjudiction rules
Industry leaders to call for amendments to Construction Act to bring in stronger adjudicators and simpler system.
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Feilden Clegg hopes to put 3000 homes into Oxford hole
Architect to draw up plans for sustainable community, with research centre and public transport, in derelict quarry.
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FeaturesInn with the new
When the founders of City Inn commissioned their flagship central London hotel, they wanted something accessible but striking – inside and out. So Bennetts Associates came up with a fresh approach that has rewritten the rulebook for hotel design.
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Local lowdown
In the latest of our regional series, Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose investigates the thriving job market in Scotland














