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Scott Wilson in masterplan coup
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Scott Wilson has been appointed to masterplan a new community just outside Fareham, Hampshire, that is set to become home to 20,000 people when complete.
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Aecom eyes top architects as expansion plans grow
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Aecom is on the hunt for a major architect, following its acquisition of Davis Langdon, as it continues its rapid expansion towards establishing a global one-stop-shop consultancy.
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Costain teams up to create offshore wind farms alliance
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Costain has joined forces with Hochtief and Arup to design and build wind farms, believing it can offer a cost effective, deliverable way of rolling out the 6,000-tonne concrete foundations by setting up a dedicated manufacturing facility to mass produce them.
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Zero emissions plan for new homes to be watered down
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The Government is set to scale back the requirement that all new homes from 2016 be zero carbon, responding to pressure from the housebuilding industry. The housing minister argues that ´we need to set a realistic benchmark for carbon emissions in building regulations which also takes account of costs.´
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Gatwick chooses firms for £1bn capital plans
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Gatwick Airport has chosen 10 companies for two new supplier frameworks covering architectural and civil engineering services for its £1bn capital investment programme. The civil engineering companies are: Arup, Halcrow, Jacobs, Scott Wilson and TPS.
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Questions hang over key housing plan
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It is reported that Lovell and Barratt are the first housebuilders to get work via the HCA´s Delivery Partner Panel. Lovell will build a £5.6m development, including 45 socially rented homes in Bradford, while Barratt will build homes on a public land site in Plymouth.
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Space rules will make homes unaffordable
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The Home Builders Federation says that the latest draft of the London Housing Design Guide, which sets standards for larger and more eco-friendly homes, will go against targets to increase affordable home provision. The final version will be published by the end of 2010 and the standards will apply to schemes looking for HCA funding from April 2011.
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MPA calls for shift in focus of ALSF
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Nigel Jackson, chief executive of the Mineral Products Association, is calling for the share of the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) going to local communities to be increased by between 33% and 50% of the value of the fund. The MPA has also made representations to government for the ALSF to be retained for as long as the Aggregates Levy itself is paid, but remains opposed to the Levy.
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Cool concrete from CEMEX
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CEMEX UK has developed a new ready-mixed concrete, which incorporates CEM II/B-V factory-blended cement from its Tilbury plant, in combination with high levels of pulverised fuel ash (PFA) and water-reducing admixtures to reduce heat generation in the concrete. It is being used in the UK for the first time for the foundations of new Terminal 2 buildings at Heathrow Airport.
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Gatwick £1bn upgrade
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Global Infrastructure Partners is to spend £1bn modernising Gatwick airport, including a new South Terminal departure area and immigration hall.
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