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Balfour Beatty wins place on £65m Florida airport job
Firm will work with local contractor to replace terminal gate
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Capita thwarted in move to buy Cyril Sweett
Consultant hunts for alternatives as Sweett’s £5.4m Chinese deal wrecks takeover talks
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Newcastle's Surgo hopes to see off heavyweight rivals
SME profile Tyneside firm believes regional education will enable locals to compete with nationals
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Styles & Wood halfway through recovery plan
Fit-out firm climbs out of trouble as order book swells - but market remains tough
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Aecom eyes top architects as expansion plans grow
US giant on the hunt for ’the biggest or near biggest architect’ to add to global portfolio
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Coalition to extend green retrofit scheme to offices
Energy bill to introduce ’pay as you save’ scheme for commercial sector in major boost for refit market
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Leeds halves housebuilding targets to thwart developers
Council says move will help protect greenfield sites after government abolishes spatial strategies
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Share price plummets as Archial seeks bank help
Listed architect Archial lost two-thirds of its market value last week after it admitted seeking help from its banks to pay its tax bill
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Carillion ups profit by 17%
Carillion increased pre-tax profit by 17% to £59m in the six months to 30 June and said it was hopeful government outsourcing work would help boost its numbers in future.
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Turnover down but orders up 30% for electrician T Clarke
Turnover and profit at electrical contractor T Clarke fell in the six months to 30 June but its order book rose by a third
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Great sprawl of China
PRP Architects has completed a masterplan for the centre of Chongqing city in western China
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He’s back: Pidgley Jr sets up another housebuilder
Tony Pidgley Jr, the son of Britain’s most successful housebuilder, has re-entered the housebuilding fray in a move that is bound to start speculation of renewed rivalry between father and son
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Mouchel shrugs off gloom
Consultant Mouchel has said the outlook for its UK business is improving and has appointed a finance director
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Four firms win £900m Olympic temporary structures job
Bovis Lend Lease, Turner & Townsend, Capita Symonds and Rider Levitt Bucknall have won a £900m framework deal for temporary structures during the Olympic Games, Ӱ understands
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Great Strides
Architect Stride Treglown and developer and contractor Marcus Worthington have secured permission for a 13-storey student accommodation tower block in Preston, Lancashire
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£1m Stirling
The RIBA has announced the 25 schemes shortlisted for its 2010 Special Awards, which are given for excellence in conservation, school design, public spaces and projects under £1m
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OFT fines ‘will be coming down’ say contractors
Several of the 25 contractors appealing against a combined £79m fine by the OFT for pricing collusion have said they expect to get back “millions” as the legal arguments draw to a close
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Confiscated blacklist leaked back into market
The Information Commissioner’s Office is investigating the leak of confidential files naming blacklisted construction workers, writes Andrew Hankinson.
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Bam’s UK profits up by a third
The UK arms of Dutch construction giant Royal Bam reported increased profits of €20.6m (£16.9m) on falling turnover in the first half of this year
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Canadian consultant Stantec buys architect Anshen + Allen
Anglo-US healthcare architect Anshen + Allen has been bought by Canadian consultant Stantec for an undisclosed sum.