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Brown accused over
Gifford wins three projects
Gifford has won three new
‘missed’ target in plan
engineering design projects in
Abu Dhabi. The consultancy
will design key elements for a to boost social housing
new road scheme at Abu Dhabi
airport, develop concepts and
detailed designs for a new sea n
A new UK government target
to boost social housing has
Dixon
wall and shore protection on Al been condemned as promising
Sowah Island, and review design fewer affordable homes than was
and construction plans to repair a pledged two years ago.
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damaged marina. The Construction Products
Association, representing UK
LEED Platinum for Hong manufacturers and suppliers,
Kong development accused the government of trying to
Gammon Construction has been hide its own missed housing targets
awarded a contract worth £120m by announcing new, lower and more
to redevelop the Hennessy expensive ones. Prime Minister
Centre in Hong Kong. The Gordon Brown announced plans
36-storey development is the first to build 110,000 affordable homes
Hong Kong project to achieve a costing £2.1bn by 2011. government’s programme to the that around 56,450 affordable
Platinum level pre-certification Michael Ankers, chief executive end of 2010-11, so why do they now homes will be delivered each year
LEED green building rating. It of the association, said: “We have need to divert money from other up to 2011, missing the target by
should be complete in 2011. been saying for some time that capital programmes to deliver a more than 13,500 a year.
the government would miss its lower target that should be costing The new target of 110,000
Bidder in pole position for affordable housing targets, so less? It sounds very much like the affordable homes to rent or buy
international games project this latest announcement should government is promising less for would create an estimated 45,000
Engineering and environmental come as no surprise. However, it more.” jobs in construction and related
consultancy WSP is the preferred is difficult to understand why they In 2007, then Housing Minister industries, Brown said.
bidder to build the £245m need additional money to deliver Yvette Cooper announced that the The programme would be
athletes’ village for the 2014 fewer houses. government would provide at least paid for by using the spending
Commonwealth Games in “The last Comprehensive 70,000 affordable homes a year by allocations made in the last Budget
Glasgow. WSP will be involved Spending Review allocated the 2010-11. and by switching funds from other
in the masterplanning and necessary funds to deliver the The latest announcement states projects into housing, he said.
design of the 38.5 hectare site in
Dalmarnock.
Colleges scale back building
Mott wins hospital contract
Mott MacDonald Hong Kong has
plans after funding shortfall
been appointed as the building
services consulting engineer for Thirteen colleges in Britain have Brennan said the 13 colleges would
the extension works at Haven of been forced to reduce the cost receive the funding only if the overall
Hope Hospital in the province. of their building projects after cost was reduced. He described the
The project involves demolishing their funding body got its figures reductions required as “significant
three existing old infirmary wards wrong. but manageable”.
and building a new hospital The projects have been allocated Meanwhile the LSC will help
block. funding to go ahead this year but colleges whose projects are not
will now have to make cuts to their proceeding in the short term to
Buro helps to revamp initial plans. draw up a revised estates strategy
Firm wins YEN award
pre-war airport The move follows a scaling back and examine other possible sources Steve Hodkinson, building
An iconic European airport built of the government’s overall college of finance, such as collective engineering managing director
before World War Two, Berlin’s building programme earlier this year approaches to private financing and at consultancy AECOM, right,
Templeho, is to be regenerated, after the Learning and Skills Council borrowing. receives the CIBSE Young
thanks to an international urban (LSC), the body that allocates Separately, two English local Engineers’ Network (YEN)
ideas competition run by the funding, discovered it did not have authorities are to proceed with Champions Award for larger
Berlin Senate. The competition enough cash available. planned development projects companies from Paul Hardy,
generated more than 80 entries, The government admitted that it under the Building Schools for the MD of Baxi Commercial
but one of three chosen ideas could not afford the £2.7bn needed Future progamme (BSF). Division. The same award for
was put together by a partnership for more than 70 college projects The first phase of the £360m smaller companies was won
between Chora Architecture and that had been given approval in Barnsley BSF scheme has received by Australian consultancy
Urbanism, multidisciplinary principle by the LSC to proceed. funding from the European Steensen Varming. The award
engineering consultancy Buro The LSC now has £300m to Investment Bank (EIB), making it runners-up were Gifford (large
Happold, and landscape spread between all 13 projects this the first council to do so. Separately firm) and CBG Consultants
architect Gross Max. year. a £91m BSF scheme has been (small). www.cibse.org/yen
Further education minister Kevin signed in north Lincolnshire.
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