All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 6
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NewsMHCLG to take over fire risk brief from Home Office under post-Grenfell reforms
Starmer says move will provide more “coherent approach” to fire safety
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NewsArchitect brought in to design tower at £500m King’s Cross life sciences district
Morris & Co to work up plans for buildings up to 31 storeys tall on Camley Street scheme
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NewsPlans submitted for upmarket City hotel at foot of Tower 42
Richard Seifert-designed building to be demolished to make way for eight-storey scheme
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NewsFirms to get greater flexibility on apprenticeships under government reforms
Qualifications requirements to be eased and minimum time for apprenticeship terms reduced
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NewsWork on first new towns to ‘start within four years’ says Pennycook as 100 proposals submitted
Matthew Pennycook says new towns to contribute to government’s 1.5 million-homes housing target
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NewsGreen light for Landsec office scheme in Southwark
Orms-designed block to add to developer’s emerging commercial complex near Tate Modern
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FeaturesFrom the archives: The collapse of Olympia & York, 1992
Building covers the downfall of the Canadian developer which drove the early years of Canary Wharf
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NewsGovernment setting up new cladding remediation enforcement unit
Body to sit within Building Safety Regulator and will be used to speed up remediation on higher risk buildings
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NewsGovernment ‘sought to influence’ Met Police on Chinese embassy, lawyer for residents claims
Police decision to withdraw objection to David Chipperfield-designed redevelopment of Royal Mint site comes under fire on first day of public inquiry
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NewsNo industry super-regulator any time soon, experts predict
Prime minister expected to set up task groups to look into issues with current regime in wake of Grenfell tragedy rather than risk further industry disruption
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NewsBPF tells Reeves to find more money to clear backlog of schemes held up by new safety rules
Trade body latest group to raise resourcing issue which has seen dozens of projects held up by logjam at Building Safety Regulator
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NewsDonald Insall Associates closes Cambridge office and downsizes Bath team
Strategic review at heritage practice follows workload slump in two regions
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NewsIn pictures: Foundation works complete at HS2’s Old Oak Common station
Balfour Beatty, Vinci and Systra joint venture finish work on basement slab larger than six football pitches
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NewsOutput tumbles to lowest level for 15 months as post-Budget caution stymies jobs
Material prices also rise at fastest rate since April 2023 despite weaker demand
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NewsDecision to demolish Grenfell Tower would put disaster ‘out of sight and out of mind’, says survivor
Angela Rayner told bereaved and survivors yesterday that work to demolish the building would start in June
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FeaturesFrom the archives: Planning Canary Wharf, 1982-88
Building charts the early years of what would become one of the world’s largest commercial districts
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NewsVinci wins first phase of £350m Stockport regeneration scheme
Firm beats Willmott Dixon ahead of planning decision expected in spring
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NewsAHMM’s Battersea student blocks become UK’s largest passivhaus scheme
Four-block scheme given accreditation folllowing air tightness tests
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NewsConstruction starts slump across regional cities as regulation and inflation take toll
No newbuild offices schemes broke ground in four key cities last year, Deloitte’s latest regional crane survey finds
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NewsProfit and revenue at Populous jump as architect reaps rewards of Saudi World Cup work
Turnover in Middle East region grew more than sixfold in 2023