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FeaturesDeregulation: Fixing New Zealand’s £5bn leak
Cutting red tape is one thing. But total deregulation is about as sensible as turning on your bathtaps and going on holiday – as thousands of soggy Kiwis now know
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CommentInsurance: Are you prepared to take the risk?
Insurers say they are suffering disproportionate losses from buildings built using modern construction methods. Unless the industry acts, says Thomas Lane, they may pull cover
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FeaturesCordon sanitaire: MAAP’s mental health facility
How do you make a mental health facility secure without it feeling like a prison? The answer MAAP Architects proposes is to turn the buildings themselves into a perimeter fence
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FeaturesOff-site hospital
Yorkon has handed over what it claims to be the largest UK hospital to be built off site
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Movers and makers: 12 March 2010
Recent tests at BRE has confirmed that Hydropanel partition walls meet all the requirements of BS 5234-2: 1992 including criteria for stiffness, resistance to surface damage by a variety of objects and the effects of door slamming, as well as resistance to crowd pressure. It also underwent lightweight and heavyweight ...
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FeaturesWater controls
Douglas Delabie, under its Chavonnet banner, has launched a range of water controls to help prevent hospital-acquired infections
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FeaturesWashroom fittings
A number of products from Rada have been incorporated into a £270m healthcare project in Newcastle-upon-Tyne that will see services transferred to the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Freeman Hospital
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Mould-proof grouting
Weber is rolling out its mould-stop technology to a number of its popular grout products including Weber joint fine flex, Weber joint wide and Weber joint wide flex
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CommentWonders & Blunders with Dean Webster
The Cyril Sweett boss has a solar epiphany on a Middle Eastern tower but another in London casts a long shadow on a park
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NewsRICS launches AssocRICS for project managers
Entry level professional qualification offers an alternative route for those without a degree
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NewsCapita wins place on North Wales framework
Consultant to carry out project and asset management, and cost analysis for North Wales Trunk Road Agency
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NewsWork can be an extension of education
Through working at Hill International the civil engineering graduate discovered his passion for contract law
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Hill appoints new executive director
Consultant hires expert in forensic delay analysis for the European operation
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NewsHigh-speed rail network proposals revealed
Megaproject route would run 335 miles from Euston to Midlands and northern cities
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NewsLloyds bank to buy stake in United House
Private equity arm of bank close to agreeing deal that will see chairman exit
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NewsAldar faces $1.76bn funding gap
Warning of two-year liquidity problem coincides with UAE developer's first ever quarterly loss
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NewsTaylor Woodrow/Bam Nuttall win £695m Victoria station upgrade
Joint venture chosen for central London rail revamp job
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RICS National Building Surveying conference - 28 April
This year the RICS National Building Surveying conference will be a one-day event and take place in London