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Stadium specialist Populous to bid for Baghdad complex
Stadium architect Populous is attempting to move into Iraq with a bid for a 100,000-seat stadium and sports complex outside Baghdad
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EC Harris: we’re still strong enough to float
EC Harris remains bullish about its plan to float on the stock exchange although it has lost almost one in five employees and its revenue has tumbled by 17.6%
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RIBA tables design review bid to ministers
Institute’s proposal is seen as rival to Cabe’s proposed Design Council merger
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Government plans to make PFI less onerous
The government is to announce a reform of the way PFI works in the new year to avoid the current “over-legalised” approach to deals
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The sharks gather around Mouchel
For all the turmoil surrounding consultant Mouchel over the past fortnight, the City has dumped its share price just a touch above where it was before it heard that Deloitte had been called in to conduct a “limited business review” on 2 December
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Turner & Townsend wins second tranche of free schools
Consultant wins the second tranche of 12 contracts to design the government’s flagship free schools
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Skanska targets UK housing market in global expansion
Skanska has opened a UK housing division as part of a global expansion strategy
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Information errors are putting lives at risk, survey finds
Two thirds of information professionals in the construction industry have seen builders’ lives put at risk by information mismanagement, according to a survey by the Institute of Document Control
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Hub posts on-site energy levels
An industry advisory body has delivered its recommendations to government on how much on-site energy must be produced on new housing developments from 2016
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Savills and DMA's Deptford digs
Savills London Planning Team and DMA Architects have won planning approval for a 199-unit residential development in Deptford, south-east London.
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Consortiums gear up for Crossrail station contracts
Now that £1.25bn tunnelling jobs are confirmed, focus turns to main works on four major stations
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Kings of the castle
London mayor Boris Johnson and developer James Sellar were present to celebrate the Shard becoming the highest UK building, at 244m, or 72 storeys
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GLA calls for new rules for timber frame
Greater London Assembly wants new measures to reduce the risk of fire in timber framed developments under construction in the capital
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British Land's Slicker City
British Land has submitted a planning application for a 12-storey 1.1m ft2 office block in the iconic Broadgate development in the City of London
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Two directors leave in Bovis shake-up
Two more senior directors are to leave Bovis Lend Lease, in the latest management changes at the firm
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Relief – and disappointment – at Localism Bill
The government has pulled back from giving communities the right to appeal all planning permissions as part of its radical overhaul of the planning system this week
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How to shop in Bangkok
Amanda Levete Architects’ Central Embassy development is due to start on site in Thailand next February
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BAA drops Davis Langdon from Heathrow framework
EC Harris and Turner & Townsend retain role to manage £3.5bn construction programme
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Atkins signs nuclear power deal
British engineering giant Atkins has signed a joint venture with Assystem, a French nuclear specialist, to take advantage of the growing international market for atomic power stations
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Green army
The government’s Green Deal will encourage homeowners to cut carbon and create 250,000 jobs for construction workers. Sounds great, says Iain Withers - but will it work?