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Archive TitlesThe bench test 2: Big is beautiful
We have grown accustomed to video recording devices getting smaller and lighter, so the Mitsubishi DX-TL5000 16-channel digital video recorder comes as something of a revelation. It is huge, tipping the scales at a hefty 13.5kg and measuring 425 x 390 x 185mm, which is between two and three times ...
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Archive TitlesShortlist narrowed for Olympics programme role
Davis Langdon, F+A, Capita Symonds and Mace stay in the running for the key 2012 role
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Archive TitlesMissing
The recession of the early 1990s, heralded by the government abandoning the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in September 1992, is still having severe repercussions on the construction industry. Victoria Madine reports on how the scarcity of middle managers should be a serious cause for concern in an already overheated market.
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RICS to measure the world
The RICS is in talks with international construction bodies to create a worldwide standard of measurement
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Archive TitlesLet’s play ...Nimby!
With a slashed majority and a possibly imminent change of leadership, New Labour is looking distinctly wobbly. What better time, then, for the opposition to start playing party politics with housing and regeneration – especially now that being anti-development is such a vote-winner?
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Archive TitlesFrom where I’m sitting …
As David Miliband's core city summits are asking: what makes cities better?
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Archive TitlesNorthcroft HQ win
Northcroft is the QS on a project to build a sustainable new HQ for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Archive TitlesLatest thinking on … government targets
What targets are there for housing? The best known is probably the Decent Homes target, set in 1998. This demanded that all affordable housing should be brought up to a “decent” standard by 2010 (a separate target for private housing was set in 2002). Homes are to be fitted with ...
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Dubai plans mega theme park
Another huge project is in the pipeline in Dubai. This time it’s a 8m sq ft, $1.9bn resort and residential development, which will include the largest theme park in the Middle East.
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Archive TitlesThe nub of the regeneration debate is how much you can push
Under chief executive Liz Peace, the British Property Federation has gained a reputation for punching above its weight. Now Peace is hoping to land a knock-out blow to Treasury ideas for a planning gain supplement. Queensberry rules, of course.
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Archive TitlesWhen experience doesn’t count
In response to your question (Is there a chronic shortage of QSs in the UK? QS News, 16 September), I had been working as a QS for two years before arriving in the UK and have a BSc Hons degree in quantity surveying from Malaysia.
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Archive TitlesFat chance
There are 64,100 ha of previously developed land available for regeneration in England, but only a small proportion of it gets developed every year.
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Archive TitlesWork starts on Bradford school scheme
Construction work has started on a £7.4m performing arts centre at a Bradford school.