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CommentThe silent QSs
Are Building readers aware of the implications of the takeover of Davis Langdon by Aecom?
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CommentStorytime: Wilfred and the chisel
At Bristol’s Kingsdown Council school in 1946, I joined Mr Bowell’s woodwork class. He was a quietly-spoken man in a carpenter’s work coat
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Winds of change
I read with great interest the report published by Scottish Renewables, highlighting the huge potential for job creation in the offshore wind generation industry over the next decade.
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Turning the heat on fire report
In your article “Insurers call for urgent probe into timber-frame fire risk” (27 August, page 9) you state that the UK Timber Frame Association dismissed the findings of the government’s report on fire safety
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Count the costs
I read with interest the article by Mr Justice Akenhead (3 September, page 47)
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Don't look up
Rebecca Shorter is a member of the construction team at solicitor Cripps Harries Hall, who are “all big fans” of Building’s health and safety blunders.
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CommentInternational schools market: If you build it, they will buy it
If you want to carry on building schools for the future, develop a cheaper product that you can sell to poorer countries that are desperate for decent classrooms
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CommentWonders & blunders with Jonathan Foyle
Jonathan Foyle adores the back-of-an-envelope creativity that led to Lincoln cathedral, but is worried about the people who move to the nascent city at Salford Quays
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CommentMy digital life: Richard Nelson
Top picks from Watkins Gray Internationals business development director
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CommentBSF exclusivity agreements: More punishment to come
Companies whose schemes escaped the Building Schools for the Future cull should not bank on their exclusivity arrangements continuing unscathed
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FeaturesWhat does it cost to do up a school?
It’s become clear that most schools are going to have to carry on in the buildings they’ve got. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon looks at what it will cost to make them function better
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FeaturesAssessing the coalition's education strategy
The coalition has been impressively quick to burn down the old regime’s cherished BSF programme, but what exactly is it planning to put in its place? Well, after six months we are in a position to reach some preliminary conclusions, so Sarah Richardson takes us through the story so far, ...
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FeaturesFirst-term report for Michael Andrew Gove
Note on the curriculumDuring his first six months with us, Michael has embarked on his major project for the year: the cancellation of Building Schools for the Future, and the replacement of it - or at least parts of it - with an alternative programme of school renewal.Accuracy of workUnfortunately, ...
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Fit-out optimism eases ISG’s pain over public sector cutbacks
ISG is recruiting in every division except construction, says its chief executive David Lawther, who predicts a 10% drop in regional work over the next six months
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NewsEaling's new production: Rydon housing estate
Developer Rydon has won outline planning permission for the £136m redevelopment of the Green Man Lane housing estate in Ealing, west London
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Connaught felled by banks' refusal of £50m rescue deal
Administrator summons interested parties to fire sale talks after social housing firm collapses
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NewsNobel cause: £200m laboratory
Universities minister David Willetts is due to perform the topping out ceremony at Bam’s £200m molecular biology laboratory in Cambridge today
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600 Arup employees face axe
Up to 600 staff at Arup could lose their jobs as public sector projects are cancelled
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Turnover and profit up nearly 50% at architect Grimshaw
Grimshaw has increased both turnover and pre-tax profit by almost 50%, results for 2009-10 show
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Barratt: housing dip ‘not double dip’
Mark Clare, chief executive of housebuilder Barratt, has said a drop in reservations since the end of June is in line with seasonal trends and not the start of a double-dip housing recession