All ΢ÃÜȦ articles in 13 June 2025
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Unpacking the ongoing impact of the ΢ÃÜȦ Safety Act on housing and construction in the Midlands
A ΢ÃÜȦ the Future Think Tank roundtable addressed how housebuilding and construction in the Midlands are meeting the challenges of the ΢ÃÜȦ Safety Act
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5 minutes with … Sabrina Passley at Stark UK
The firm’s head of sustainability on shifting the concept form a ‘nice-to-have’ to an essential, embraciong the unknown, the importance of kindness and playing her sound bowls in the garden
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CPD 08 2025: Understanding and identifying grey belt land
As pressure mounts to deliver new housing and infrastructure in England, the Green Belt – long considered sacrosanct – is once again at the centre of planning debate
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CPD 07 2025: Mastering sliding and bi-fold doors
Sliding doors date back over a thousand years to Japan, where shoji – paper-covered wooden frames – offered space-saving elegance in homes and temples. Even earlier, grooves in Pompeii’s stone floors suggest the Romans used sliding doors to enhance spatial flexibility.
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Copper secures safe and sustainable water infrastructure
The UK’s water infrastructure is at a critical juncture, with the need for substantial investment and reform becoming ever more pressing
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The infrastructure strategy opens the door to private finance
Last week’s infrastructure strategy put off a final decision about using private finance for social infrastructure until the autumn. But, Joey Gardiner writes, it has still set out an important principle that such schemes are not entirely off-limits
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Construction industry ‘not in a fit state’ to deliver HS2, says official review author
James Stewart tells ΢ÃÜȦ government needs to ‘proactively’ build capacity in the sector to avoid repeat of HS2 failures
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Data centres as critical national infrastructure: Are we doing enough to get them connected?
A roundtable hosted by ΢ÃÜȦ and JSM Group Serviceslooked at the challenges of providing adequate energy connections for the UK’s data centres
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Construction must start facing up to new labour pains
The government is stuck in a spending straitjacket of its own making. However, borrowing for investment will help to sustain future workload for construction, writes Simon Rawlinson of Arcadis
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Favourite emerges on £200m City office in Moorgate
Tenter House scheme finally on verge of construction after near 30-year development saga
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Fresh proposals for Manchester towers scheme sent in for planning
New 800-home application replaces earlier consented plan which had significantly more commercial space
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What will the Treasury’s Green Book review mean for construction?
Boris Johnson’s 2020 review of the Treasury’s appraisal process for government investments led to some improvements in how value in schemes is judged, but a new review commissioned by Labour this year has found that many of the old practices remain embedded. Rachel Reeves has said she wants to go ...
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Government ditches public sector decarbonisation scheme
Existing funding to continue until 2028 with subsequent plans to be announced in due course
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Leeds student tower gets green light
Part of 1960s-built Merrion Centre set to be demolished to make way for 37-storey development
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In pictures: British Land’s laboratory building at Cambridge tech park completes
New scheme drawn up by Scott Brownrigg and built by SDC
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Costing Steelwork 32: Market update and guidance on specialist contracts
A market update from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life
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Construction industry gossip: Through a glass darkly
The latest chatter around the industry
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From the archives: ΢ÃÜȦ London’s millennium projects, 1999
΢ÃÜȦ speaks to the project teams working under pressure to finish the Millennium Dome, the London Eye and the Jubillee Line extension in time for New Year’s Eve
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Mastering the art:Â The National Gallery reworks a postmodern icon
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Winner emerges on City tower as races for several other London commercial jobs enter home straight
Scheme at 55 Old Broad Street has been drawn up by Fletcher Priest