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NewsStanhope U-turn over £3bn Stratford City scheme
Despite Lipton's pledge that developer would do its own housebuilding, it seems help is now in order.
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M&E firm forced to halt trading
M&E design firm Cameronaire Environmental has gone into administration
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BDP in talks over 40-storey City of London skyscraper
Planning application to be submitted in six to nine months, depending on outcome of Shard of Glass inquiry.
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FeaturesThe guv'nors
In three years, Sir Stuart Lipton and Jon Rouse turned CABE from an idea into a key British institution. Now that it's on the brink of another massive expansion, we find out where they're taking it now
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Try regroups to focus on key market sectors
Galliford Try has split its construction division into three business units focusing on key market sectors.
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HBG spells out strategy
HBG Chief executive Brian May was bullish about the group's prospects desipite the weakening of the construction market.
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Drawing to a close
Architectural drawings were once signature pieces that told us a lot about those who did them. Now the RIBA has a great scheme to save them from extinction
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FeaturesBudget? Fudge it!
Politicians, bureaucrats, voters and contractors all want to believe that ambitious public projects offer value for money – but the costs quoted in a shocking new book tell another story. Could PFI be the solution?
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FeaturesVodka modern
Drinks giant Diageo has turned office space into outer space in a corporate fit-out so futuristic nobody else has got there yet. Must be all that Smirnoff …
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Sail or return
You buy a yacht for a cool quarter of a million, sail around in it for six months, decide you don't like it and ask for your money back. Fair dos – or taking the mick?
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… and carrots for all
Standard contracts have their limitations for public–private deals. To stay sane until signing day, try to draw up a timetable that incentivises all parties
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Cheap and far from cheerful
I am moved to comment on Building's news story about Romanian workers to be given work permits for the UK (21 March, page 11) and the article on foreign staff working on a London site (17 April, page 36).
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You name it, there's a regulation
I find myself in the unusual and confusing state of being in agreement with an architect and a solicitor at the same time: Barry Munday and John Redmond (11 April, pages 39 and 53).
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Dawn of the übermanager
Regarding your "Go-faster bunnies" article on 25 April (pages 50-52), it was heartening to hear people in the industry talking about the benefits that education brings.
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What you think of the RICS fee increase
Bye-bye little guy I read with interest that the RICS' forum group had written to its president, Peter Fall, to oppose the ridiculous increase in fees. Fall says in his – very poor – attempt to win support for the rise that the RICS' membership has increased 30% over the ...
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