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CommentHansom: Once upon a time...
This week’s unlikely fables include bringing the house down, a fantastic (unbuilt) tower, and a world of fun and laughter (in a bank). But will it be a fairy tale ending for young Nick Boles?
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CommentRecruitment consultants: A welcome menace
You may think having your staff tapped up by recruitment consultants is annoying but it’s actually doing the industry a lot of good
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CommentMy digital life … Kevin Louch
The Standford Industrial Flooring MD on playing at LinkedIn, buying shirts and swearing like a marine
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NewsG&T exits ‘tough’ Eastern Europe market
Firm exits eight countries in Eastern Europe and focuses on ‘more stable’ parts of Western Europe
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NewsRider Levett Bucknall wins Baku European Games work
Consultant to provide cost advice for temporary overlay infrastructure and venues for inaugural European Games in Azerbaijan
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NewsLots Road Power Station: Lots of apartments
One of London’s first steel framed buildings is converted into flats
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CommentThey don’t know what they’ve built
David Frise with the second in his series of articles charting his experience of buying a new build flat marketed as reaching Code for Sustainable Homes level three
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CommentAfter the Code for Sustainable Homes
If it is to be wound down, how will the issues included in the code be dealt with in future?
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CommentHelp the next generation build the future
How do we inspire the next generation to pursue a career in construction? And are we in the industry doing enough to educate young people about the variety of careers in the sector
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CommentWe can learn much from Coventry's apprenticeship scheme
The award-winning apprenticeship scheme in Coventry offers a personalised approach that should be repeated elsewhere
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CommentIn praise of the Stirling prize
At first this might appear professionally self-indulgent, but we should recognise the incredible success that the Stirling prize and other RIBA awards have had
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CommentBasic errors: The school places crisis
The ‘smoking gun’ of the school places shortage is being exacerbated by a gap between government funding and the cost of provision
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NewsM&S eco-store outperforms targets
Massive green building project 29% more efficient than expected Faithful and Gould finds
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NewsCH2M Hill ‘must act’ on Qatar 2022 worker exploitation
Programme manager on World Cup asked to intervene on build project that ‘could cost up to 4,000 lives’
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CommentSeriously, Crystal Palace plans are no joke
Why the plans to rebuild the famous Crystal Palace of 1851 might actually be more than a billionaire’s pipe dream
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NewsCrossrail workers discover Roman skulls
Workers on the Crossrail project have found around 20 Roman skulls at Liverpool Street station while undertaking tunnelling work
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NewsBoris unveils £500m plan to rebuild Crystal Palace
Mayor says redevelopment backed by Chinese billionaire will see the Victorian Crystal Palace ‘rise again’
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NewsFallon predicts Hinkley nuclear deal ‘within weeks’
Energy minister confident agreement on “strike price” for electricity imminent