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Video: What can Swedish free schools teach us?
Interview with Swedish schools expert at this week’s Remodelling Education Spaces event
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Coca-Cola's Madrid HQ
Nottingham Trent students comment on the Puerta+Asensio Architects designed building in Spain
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NewsThe photography of Eric de Maré: Until 24 November
Accompanied by the display - Buildings & Prospects: John Piper, photography and the architectural press
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CommentHansom: Leaping lizards
There’s much hurling this week as industry leaders chuck themselves off buildings, press officers throw themselves into their work and Ann Widdecombe launches herself into the highland fling
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FeaturesBack for seconds: David Nurser
David Nurser has a voracious appetite for risk-taking. First he set up the surveying firm CNP in a recession. And now he’s a year into his second venture, Paragon (more great timing)
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FeaturesCrouching tiger: Buying a business in China
Tempted to get a foothold in China by buying a business there? It’s a strategy that can pay dividends, but is strewn with hidden dangers
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Airports get firms off the ground as workloads dive
Business barometer: Balfour’s Heathrow win takes it clear of its rivals in quiet August
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NewsMiller ‘may move into consultancy’
Keith Miller, chief executive of Miller Group, has said its construction business will do more consultancy work in future and did not rule out buying a consultant
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Lloyds sells Crest stake
Lloyds has sold its 30% stake in housebuilder Crest Nicholson to US investment firm Varde for a reported £150m.
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Infrastructure warning
John Cridland, the CBI’s deputy director-general, has warned the government that it will repeat the mistakes of the past if it neglects infrastructure investment in its Comprehensive Spending Review
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URS seals Scott Wilson deal
The acquisition of Scott Wilson by American consulting giant URS has been formally completed, propelling the US company into the top 10 of British engineers.
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CommentDonkey work and urban planning
A Kenyan island with an unusual freight-transportation system has inspired Amanda Levete to think again about designing for cities without cars
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CommentWonders & blunders with Paul Daniels
Paul Daniels is thrilled by the gothic spectacle of the Palace of Westminster but another Thames-side landmark, the Royal National Theatre, is distinctly unmagical
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Maglev's inflexible
The only problem with maglev (and the reason it is not being adopted widely, even in China) is its inflexibility and inability to handle the passenger flows moving between cities (3 September, page 38).
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CommentGreat crested newts!
As your recent article describes (27 August, page 36), the scale of the London Gateway Development - and the fact that the site lies at the heart of one of Europe’s most important estuary and wetland habitats - presents unique challenges
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The big squeeze
Connaught’s difficulties have highlighted what most of us who work in the social housing repairs sector are already aware of
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How much wood?
I found the words in Building’s leader (27 August, page 3) and the article on timber frame fire risk (page 9) incredible
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Tradition be damned
Ah, the past, how it used to be (Inbox, The silent QSs, 10 September, page 22).