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City Inn vs Shepherd: How much sand is a snowstorm worth?
Let’s delve deeper into City Inn vs Shepherd. At first glance, it looks like the three appeal judges came to different conclusions on relevant events. Look again …
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CommentPFI can’t take sting out of cuts
Public sector clients tempted to reintroduce cancelled projects as variations to existing PFIs may be breaking the rules
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Set-off on the right foot
The law governing situations where two parties owe each other money is murky. But a recent Court of Appeal case sheds some useful light
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CommentHansom: The end is nigh
This week, we contemplate our mortality in the form of moribund school programmes, vanishing staff, and Brits making their final exit from the Middle East … meanwhile, death stalks the Euston Road
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FeaturesJohn McAslan: Our man in Haiti
John McAslan has a lot on his mind. First, the huge housing design competition he’s running for the Haitian government. Back at home, meanwhile, his practice is working on a concourse at King’s Cross and a Crossrail station at Bond Street
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FeaturesBrockholes floating visitor centre: Tread lightly
The designers of a new visitor centre for Brockholes wetland nature reserve plan to float the facilities in the middle of a lake - while ruffling as few feathers as possible
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FeaturesGolf competition: Lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
What better way to pass a lovely summer’s day than a few rounds of crazy golf? Okay, there are plenty of better ways, but when you’ve got construction’s finest to tee off against each other on an adventure-themed golf course, it’s a whole new ball game
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FeaturesJapanese house by Eastern Design Office: Heaven & earth
This Japanese home-cum-office on the edge of a precipice is designed to resemble a dragon flying over a mountain
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Building Intelligence
Public housing and infrastructure are keeping construction’s nose above water, though the industrial sector’s 40% fall in new orders is a drag
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NewsMy digital life: Nigel Ostime
A pool table with a dart board on the bottom which you use by folding up the table. What a find! The tricky thing has been getting it delivered to Burgundy where we are staying for the summer hols (and where it will live). It’s due to arrive in a ...
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Morgan Sindall makes hay as the sun goes down
Public sector demand keeps contractors in work - for now
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Morgan: We can live with cuts
John Morgan, the executive chairman of Morgan Sindall, has said the percentage of public sector work on its order book will fall below 50% as a result of the coalition cuts
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Pidgley's pay packet
Berkeley chairman Tony Pidgley received a £1.5m bonus in 2009, according to the firm’s report and accounts
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Interserve profit falls
Pre-tax profit at outsourcing company Interserve fell by a third in the first six months of the year, from £40m to £27.3m
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House prices slip back
The RICS has reported much weaker demand among home buyers in its monthly update
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NewsLeeds arena: Centre stage
Populous has released the first images of a £55m, 13,500-seat “theatre style” arena in Leeds city centre, designed so that spectators will never be more than 70m from the centre of the action
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Connaught chair loses £500k
Sir Roy Gardner, chairman of Connaught, has made a paper loss of more than £500,000 since being appointed in May
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Rok suspends finance chief after ‘serious failings’
Rok has suspended finance director Ashley Martin after a profit warning and revelations of “serious failings” in the financial controls of its plumbing business
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NewsLibya media HQ: Did you see ...?
London-based Architecture & Urbanism Studio has designed the new headquarters for Libya’s national television broadcaster, LJBC
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NewsCyril Sweett postpones bonus scheme as targets are missed
Cyril Sweett dropped plans to reintroduce an executive bonus scheme in 2010 after bosses failed to meet profit-related performance targets