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    Bob Neill on government's £500m gift to the Thames Gateway

    2010-11-26T14:58:00Z

    Minister reveals plans for investment in post-Olympic East London at the Thames Gateway Forum

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    British architects targeted by Chinese fraudsters

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Broadway Malyan and Aedas among those to have identities faked by firms bidding for work in China

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    Balfour eyes new-build social housing after £7m Rok buy

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Deal for collapsed firm’s work comes as administrator confirms Mears snapped up key Bristol contracts

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    Capita and DTZ sign up for free schools programme

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Consultants join law firm Dickinson Dees in taking roles on first wave of controversial scheme

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    The Shard: A record high

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    Renzo Piano’s skyscraper takes the Canary Wharf Tower’s title as London’s tallest building

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    HCA boss: social housing funds on ice till 2012

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    There will be almost no new funding for social housing for 18 months, the new chief executive of the Homes and Communities Agency has admitted in her first major interview.

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    Melbourne office by Wilkinson Eyre Architects: Uni glow

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre Architects and the Melbourne office of Sinclair Knight Merz have been appointed to design a building for the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. A six-storey block will “float” above a retained street-level Victorian facade. The development will form part of the university’s Hawthorn Campus.Send your project ...

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    Bovis wins £150m Regent’s Place deal from British Land

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Bovis Lend Lease has beaten off competition from Mace and Sir Robert McAlpine to win a £150m deal to build the second phase of British Land’s Regent’s Place scheme in London.

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    EDF to name Hinkley Point team next month

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    EDF will select a preferred bidder for the £180m earthworks contract for its planned Hinkley Point nuclear power station before Christmas, write Joey Gardiner and David Matthews.

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    Two more senior figures walk out on Davis Langdon

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    A further two senior staff members have left Davis Langdon in the latest round of high-profile departures since the QS was bought by US engineering giant Aecom.

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    Civil Justice Centre in Bristol opens

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Associated Architects unveils it’s seven-storey building

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    Rok's collapse threatens bid for £130m housing scheme

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    A £130m housing PFI scheme in Oldham could be derailed following the Rok collapse.

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    Irish crisis spreads to UK as McCabe suspends site work

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Irish contractor stops work on UK sites as it awaits decision from banking rescue fund

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    Mitie acquisitions boost half-year profit by 12%

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Company posts strong results despite plans to close engineering services in Scotland and South-west

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    Taylor Wimpey secures £100m as part of refinancing deal

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Taylor Wimpey has secured £100m from the fund management arm of the Prudential, which moves it closer to the £350m it needs to raise to complete a refinancing deal announced last week

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    Kier buys PV firm for £2.4m

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Kier has snapped up green energy specialist contractor Beco in a deal worth £2.4m

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    Gleeson snaps up more land as house sales soar 47%

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Sales at Gleeson have risen by almost half since July and private completions have grown by more than a quarter since the same time last year, the housebuilder said in an interim statement to the City last Friday

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    Multi-service chilled beams

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Active multi-service chilled beams from Trox have been installed in a six-storey office development in Cardiff to help cut energy use. The 3 Assembly Square development sitsopposite the National Assembly for Wales’ Senedd building. The multi-service chilled beams incorporate a lighting management system, including PIR sensors, to optimise energy consumption ...

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    Low-energy ventilation

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    A new store for Asda at Langley Mill in Derbyshire will be the first in the UK to use Breathing Ӱs’ patented e-stack low energy ventilation system.The e-stack natural ventilation system is designed to ensure the fresh air rates required for building regulations, while minimising the heating energy required. This ...

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    Low-energy lighting

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Zumtobel has launched the Panos Infinity LED downlight range. The minimalist design features a luminaire efficiency of up to 77 lumens per watt. As a result the LED technology is claimed to outcompete traditional compact fluorescent lamps in terms of efficiency and lighting quality.The luminaire’s luminous flux in excess of ...