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Staff get just three days' training
THE AVERAGE construction worker received only three days of training last year – although the best firms provided their staff with 20.
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HOK to design new home for Wimbledon FC
Wimbledon Football Club's 28,000-seat stadium in Milton Keynes will be designed by HOK Sport.
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Anatomy of a fiasco
As the World Cup kicks off in the beautiful (and completed) arenas of Japan and South Korea, our attention is again on England’s beautiful (but unstarted) stadium in Wembley. Three consultants’ reports presented to MPs last week cast new light on the cost of the troubled project and the controversial ...
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NewsSturgess quits post after Skanska shake-up
Skanska’s UK building managing director Andy Sturgess has left his post suddenly after David Fison became the new boss.
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NewsYouth of today
Youth of today: The £1.2m SouthBank Youth Resource Centre was recently completed for the London borough of Lambeth's education department. The 600 m2 two-storey block on Waterloo Road in central London contains education facilities. The scheme was designed in-house by the borough's design and technical services department. The team also ...
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Morrison costs AWG £106m
Utilities group AWG this week revealed that its acquisition of Morrison Construction had cost it £106.4m in the past year.
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HWA will be bought by management
Laing has signed an exclusivity deal with the management team leading a buy-out of its niche contractor Holloway White Allom.
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EP boosts housebuilding in North-west
Regeneration quango English Partnerships has agreed the sale of land for 400 homes across the north-west of England.
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NewsBack to the future
Back to the future: This Michael Hopkins-designed art gallery in Manchester opened last week. The gallery, for the city council, unites and extends two early 19th-century buildings designed by Sir Charles Barry. The buildings are joined by a frameless glass link. The project's structural and services engineer was Arup, the ...
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Stores to axe unsafe contractors
Contractors will be forced to comply with tough new health and safety targets or face being axed from the tender lists of leading clients.
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HSC publishes railway safety plan
The Health and Safety Commission last week published its four-year plan to regulate and improve safety on the railways after the crash at Potters Bar earlier this month.
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NewsConference homes in on housing issues
The Tibbalds TM2-designed Ingress Park housing scheme at Greenhithe in the East Thames corridor (second phase pictured left) is one of the featured schemes at the Building for Life conference on 3 July.The one-day conference for planners, housebuilders and consultants will be at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London. The ...
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Contracts
ouble win for ShepherdShepherd has bagged two projects – the £15m first phase of the £150m Clarence Dock scheme in Leeds for housebuilder Berkeley, and a £9.7m deal to build a seven-storey block for the School of Law at Manchester Metropolitan University.Balfour wins Forth Bridge jobBalfour Beatty has won a ...
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NewsDance fever
Dance fever: Leeds practice Carey Jones has received planning permission for a £16.5m HQ for the Northern Ballet Theatre and Phoenix Dance companies. The building will be on Quarry Hill in the heart of Leeds' cultural quarter. The development, jointly funded by the Arts Council and local firm KW Linfoot, ...
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Building boss jailed for double manslaughter
The owner of a building firm has been jailed for 18 months after he was found guilty of the manslaughter of two workers.
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Scaffolders threaten strike
Scaffolders at a firm in Essex have voted to ballot over strike action on holiday pay.
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NewsCapital gain
Capital gain: Skanska's specialist fit-out company Kontor, has refurbished and linked two buildings in Whitfield Street, central London, for London Merchant Securities. The buildings were extended to provide 3363 m2 of floor space and incorporate two lifts, a seven-storey emergency staircase and a rooftop pavilion and terrace. Architect was EPR, ...
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FeaturesTake me to the river
After leaving Whitby Bird, founding partner turned developer Bryn Bird has created his first project – a glamorous waterfront live–work complex built on top of Brunel's Rotherhithe Tunnel and nestled beside the Thames
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C&M boosted by sale of stake in Tay
Housebuilder Country & Metropolitan announced mediocre results for the six months to 28 February, disguised by the sale of a stake in Tay Homes that artificially boosted profit 66%.