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NewsOn the market
On the market: Developer Ballymore Properties has lodged a planning application to revamp Old Spitalfields Market in east London and the listed Horner Buildings to secure the market's long-term future. The scheme, designed by Basingstoke architect Lyons + Sleeman + Hoare, will allow the market to operate on a permanent ...
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Contracts
Morgan wins £36m dealMorgan Sindall's civils arm Morgan Utilities has been awarded a seven-year £36m contract with Severn Trent to carry out repairs and maintenance across the Midlands.Natsa nabs Safeway contractContractor Natsa Building has won a £1.4m contract from Bovis Lend Lease to build a Safeway superstore in Elvetham Heath, ...
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LU studies new Bishopsgate arches solution
London Underground has bowed to pressure from English Heritage and agreed to consider a proposal to save the Victorian arches that are hampering an extension of the East London Line.
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RIBA sets up forum to push innovative product design
A forum is to be set up to develop prefabricated building components in line with the Egan agenda.
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FeaturesWe're saved! It's Utilityman
Computer-enhanced, radar-enabled, global-satellite-positioned, they can see through 3 m of tarmac and earth to find exactly what's hiding under innocent-looking roads. Andy Pearson reports on a new breed of superhero.
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Doing the Whitehall shuffle
With Cabinet reshuffles, it is always a case of dealer's choice. But no prime minister in living memory has scooped up the departmental deck and dealt it out again with quite the regularity of Tony Blair.
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Rebuilding a house of cards
Following the collapse of the fragile DTLR, there has been yet another major Cabinet reshuffle – but what does it mean for construction?
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NewsRevealed: Wembley will cost £410m to build
Final cost will be higher than the £326.5m agreed by sole contractor Multiplex, but still 'value for money'.
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Wage bill threatens Labour's public services plans
RICS warns that shortages of skilled staff at a time of peak demand is fuelling a sharp rise in construction costs.
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Self-abuse
When self-certification was set up, it was welcomed as a way to cut red tape and rid the industry of rogue traders. So why, just two months on, are furious builders and regulators clamouring to get rid of it?
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The matrix
It's easy enough to say that the most powerful asset a company has is the knowledge of its staff. But the trick, says Victoria Madine, is in harnessing this power for the benefit of your business
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You're on your own
Two recent decisions in the House of Lords have made the scope for claiming contribution from other negligent parties much narrower than was thought
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NewsTropus denies sour grapes claims over Wembley report
Consultant rejects allegation by client WNSL that it wrote critical study because it lost contract.
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Atkins’ Hanscomb deal hit by 9/11
WS Atkins chief executive Robin Southwell has revealed that the 11 September attacks delayed the company’s £19.8m swoop for international QS Hanscomb.
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See you, Jimmy
Got a dispute with your builder? Then try to work it out without bothering the Court of Appeal – regardless of what you may have heard on Radio 2
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DTLR bites the dust in departmental shake-up
The resignation of Stephen Byers as secretary of state for transport, local government and the regions on Tuesday has resulted in the break-up of the DTLR.
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McAlpine starts £100m share buy-back
Conctractor Alfred McAlpine this week kicked off a share buy-back programme that will return more than £100m to investors.
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NewsMace wins £70m Wellcome Trust genome centre
Construction firm beats stiff opposition to build science scheme on sensitive rural site in Cambridgeshire.
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Immigrant 'working holiday' scheme to ease skills crisis
Home Office puts forward plan to allow foreign labour into country for up to six months to meet needs.
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Bishopsgate demolition could start 'within weeks'
Tube bosses aim to begin knocking down arches in disputed goods yard to push through East London Line.