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RICS set for showdown with ‘big eight’ QSs
A group of the largest QS firms in the country will hold crunch talks with the RICS next month to discuss the profession’s grievances against the institution
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Top pay at Rogers halves to £1.2m
The highest paid director at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners had their remuneration cut by more than half last year as profit at the practice plunged
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The big question for Mr Shapps
I would like to be among those welcoming Grant Shapps to his new role as housing minister and wishing him well. I must admit I have not been particularly kind to his ideas to date. It’s my job to be critical I guess.But for the record I do have a ...
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Helping hand
Matthew Ramsden spotted this pair working closely together to paint a window frame. The question is not so much “So, how well do they know each other?” as “How did they do the top part of the house?”
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Gus Alexander: Prince Charles the wrecker
As if dealing with planners for months on end wasn’t painful enough, we now have to calculate a last-minute intervention from a prince addicted to retro architecture
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CommentQuentin Shears: The kingmaker
’The fresh croissants are, I feel, a big, open and comprehensive offer’
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Steel firms team up for nuclear work
Two medium-sized structural steel contractors are creating a joint venture to compete for £250m of work in the nuclear power programme
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John Sisk aims for £300m turnover
John Sisk & Son plans to almost double turnover to more than £300m this year after bagging £200m of work in the last six months of 2009
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Wates wins out as industry scrabbles for commercial work
Business barometer Less than 10% of firm’s income came from commercial sector in April
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Haiti: The road from ruin
Roxane McMeeken reports on the reconstruction effort in Haiti, amid growing fears that the ad hoc approach to rebuilding could be doing as much harm as good
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Nouvel takes Manhattan
The French architect describes his 23-storey apartment block on the Lower West Side as a ‘vision machine’. Ike Ijeh tries to decipher what that means. Photos by Roland Halbe
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Hansom: Coming to my bash?
Quarrels over ways of measuring embodied energy (no, really), communication breakdowns, last-ditch efforts to prevent desertion … oh, why can’t we just be Friends?
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Schools in danger
While there are inevitable criticisms that can be levelled at Labour’s record, we recognise that architecture has generally done well under Labour
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In uncertain times
I turned the TV off at 43 seats to be decided and after Nick Clegg announced he would not deal with Labour. I think we will all be voting again soon
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Politics or no politics
Recovery? You wish. (“City warns hung parliament will delay construction recovery,” 7 May, building.co.uk).
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Rebellion at the RICS?
Readers left comments on the story “QSs threaten to quit RICS as row escalates” (7 May, page 9) at www.building.co.uk
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FeaturesI'm lovin' it: Henry Trickey of McDonald
Companies eager to expand in these famished times won’t be able to resist McDonald’s’ supersize diet of drive-thru restaurants and store makeovers. Emily Wright chews the fat with Henry Trickey, the man who’s serving them up
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Expert determination: A short cut through a swamp
Plumping for expert determination to resolve a dispute may sound like a quick, cheap, hassle-free alternative to adjudication or litigation. But it ain’t necessarily so
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All things considered
Adjudicators have it drummed into them that they should decide the dispute in the notice of adjudication. Here’s a case that shows there is some room for flexibility
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CommentBSF is dead. So now what?
Regardless of who won the election, Building Schools for the Future was doomed. But it can adapt into something new – and so can the architects that do it