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Greater flexibility for Apprenticeship Levy funding is welcome, says FMB

The ability for larger companies to transfer unspent apprenticeship funding to smaller firms is welcome and will help make the Apprenticeship Levy a success, the Federation [...]

November 4, 2016

Associated puts in £40m Leeds University laboraties for planning

The 10,000sq m University Innovation and Enterprise Centre (UIEC) project will house start-up firms linking university academics to the private sector, with the aim of [...]

October 3, 2016

Mayor approves 50% affordable housing revision to Barking Riverside

The mayor of London has approved Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ revised plans for Barking Riverside, paving the way for 10,000 new homes – half of which will be [...]

October 1, 2016

Architects could cash in over new zero-carbon rules from October 1st

Oblivious developers ‘will need specialist help to avoid London offsetting fees’. Developers risk having residential schemes rejected by London planners because they are [...]

September 28, 2016

Funding shortfall delays Tonkin Liu’s competition-winning Salford Bridge plans

Competition-winning proposals by Tonkin Liu for a new footbridge in Salford have been put on hold due to a lack of funds The practice landed the project to create the [...]

September 26, 2016

Major Programme of Works to Palace of Westminster is Essential

In a report published today, the Joint Committee on the Palace of Westminster has concluded that the Palace of Westminster ‘faces an impending crisis which we cannot [...]

September 21, 2016

Approval for Chapman Taylor’s £1bn Salford MediaCity UK expansion

A team of architects led by Chapman Taylor has been given the go-ahead to double the size of Salford’s MediaCity UK The second stage of the scheme features 10 new [...]

September 20, 2016

Network Rail and Ministry of Defence to release land for 29,000 homes

Network Rail is to release land for up to 12,000 new homes by 2020, while the Ministry of Defence (MoD) will sell 13 sites for 17,000 homes. The organisation responsible for [...]

September 19, 2016

London Mayor Sadiq Khan halts Garden Bridge construction work

Sadiq Khan freezes enabling scheme at Temple Tube station over fears of further taxpayer exposure [...]

July 22, 2016

New Zealand looks towards UK for top-level construction talent

New Zealand’s leading infrastructure, commercial engineering and building contractor, Fletcher Construction is looking to the UK to recruit top-level talent to help deliver [...]

July 18, 2016

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