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Beyond sustainability to ecological engineering?

2013-11-04T16:49:00Z

The recent storms that battered southern England may become increasingly frequent. In order to cope we need to move from a human centric view of design towards co-habitation between the environment and humanity

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The Public Accounts Committee is bang on when it comes to the New Homes Bonus

2013-11-04T13:41:00Z

Evidence is now coming to light that the New Homes Bonus exacerbates the problem it’s designed to ease

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Construction output growth highest in six years

2013-11-04T10:14:00Z

Fears over skills shortages as survey shows workload rising at the fastest rate since the credit crunch

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Ten contractors land £4bn schools framework

2013-11-04T09:45:00Z

Firms including Balfour Beatty, Sir Robert McAlpine and Carillion secure places on EFA framework

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Henry Boot wins £200m Aberdeen centre job

2013-11-01T17:19:00Z

Exhibition centre set to be most sustainable of its kind in the UK

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Carillion bags £70m M6 improvements contract

2013-11-01T11:58:00Z

Prime minister David Cameron announced the contractor had been awarded the job yesterday

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NFB boss Julia Evans quits to join consultant

2013-11-01T10:30:00Z

Evans will depart SME trade federation next April

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Morgan Sindall bags £41m Cambridge uni job

2013-11-01T06:00:00Z

Exclusive: construction firm wins BDP-designed research facility contract

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Laing O’Rourke appoints UK infrastructure head

2013-10-31T16:38:00Z

Boss of Middle Eastern contractor joins UK’s largest private builder

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Lend Lease lands £100m MoD barracks job

2013-10-31T10:56:00Z

Contractor will construct £100m Staffordshire barracks for soldiers redeployed from Germany

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London construction boss to exit Morgan Sindall

2013-10-31T06:00:00Z

Exclusive: Peter Jacobs latest senior departure from £2bn turnover construction firm

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ISG lands £20m high-end London resi scheme

2013-10-30T14:57:00Z

Contractor will restore three grade II-listed buildings into luxury homes

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Eighteen contractors in race for £2.25bn supersewer

2013-10-29T09:48:00Z

UK’s biggest contractors outnumbered by foreign firms in running for Thames Tideway work

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Nuclear family

2013-10-29T09:38:00Z

If UK firms are going to compete on Hinkley C and subsequent nuclear projects, we urgently need to work together to tackle the training gap

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Siemens picked for £1bn power projects

2013-10-29T08:35:00Z

Energy firm InterGen picks Siemens to build and maintain for two gas-fired power stations together worth £1bn

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Construction risks a serious skills deficit

2013-10-29T06:00:00Z

With one third of senior construction managers to reach retirement age in near future the industry needs to face up to the challenge of upskilling new generation

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Race starts for £55m Paddington Crossrail tunnel job

2013-10-28T10:18:00Z

London Underground seeking contractors to propose ways of cutting costs or risks on major upgrade project

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Balfour Beatty wins £73m coastal defence work

2013-10-28T07:58:00Z

Balfour Beatty has won two contracts worth £73m in total to construct marine defences in Blackpool

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Government trials, not tribulations

2013-10-28T06:00:00Z

Early findings from the government’s trials of new procurement models show that progress towards smarter procurment is being made

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Kier bags £38m Chester cultural centre

2013-10-25T16:15:00Z

Kier has been picked to built Chester’s Bennetts Associates-designed cultural centre