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Scotland the brittle
Recent alarming reports that Scotland’s unemployment rates outstrip the rest of the UK should prompt government at all levels to look afresh at their strategy for bringing this country out of recession
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CommentRobert Adam: The deadly sin of incompetence
Architects love chasing fame but the tiresome stuff of knowing how a building is put together seems beneath them. The sixth of Robert Adam’s seven deadly sins of architecture is incompetence
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Wonders & Blunders
Dickie Bird hits us for four, squeezing in three favourites – including, wouldn’t you know it, Lord’s cricket ground – and a now defunct baseball park that was getting on a bit
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CommentHansom true colours
As Brookfield and Cleveland Bridge are shown the yellow card, others strut the red carpet of fashion week and make good use of neon dancewear. It’s just Davis Langdon that is left feeling a bit blue
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FeaturesThe two-year rush hour: London’s Park Plaza hotel
Park Plaza has built a 1,000-bedroom hotel and conference centre in the middle of one of London’s noisiest roundabouts. But it was delivering the project in just 24 months that kept the construction team suitably stressed
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FeaturesTaking the law into your own hands
With the number of construction disputes getting ever higher, now could be a good time to hit the books and get some legal qualifications
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FeaturesWinging it: Eddie the Eagle on sport and building
Eddie the Eagle, aka Michael Edwards, soared to international stardom when he flopped in the 1988 Winter Olympics ski jumping event. After the glow faded, he finally came back to earth as a Gloucestershire builder. Emily Wright asked him about a life of brilliant improvisation
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Greg Verhoef: Get workers to think for themselves
If you want workers to be safe on site, you have to get them to think for themselves. So, we need less bureaucracy and more reliance on our natural sense of danger, says Greg Verhoef
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NewsRenewed energy: Willmott Dixon's primary care centre
Willmott Dixon’s £17m project for Sunderland Teaching primary care trust aims to become the UK’s first BREEAM “outstanding” primary care centre next month
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NewsContractors attack rise of ‘eBay’ tendering
Fears raised over growth of tendering system that allows bidders to compare and revise price
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Brookfield to pay CBUK £3m
The ruling that Cleveland Bridge UK must pay Brookfield Construction £4.2m after its legal battle over Wembley stadium has been partly overturned
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Hammerson to favour French contracts over new UK work
Hammerson is to focus on French rather than UK schemes in 2010 it revealed in its 2009 results this week
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NewsInto the deep: Snøhetta's marine lab
Norwegian architect Snøhetta has designed this 16,000m² laboratory as part of a research centre for marine technology company Marintek
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Proposal to pay off Nimbys slammed as ‘cheque-book’ planning
Tory proposals to allow developers to come to financial arrangements with objecting neighbours in order to secure their support have been denounced as “cheque-book planning”
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The man from Rio
Alexandre Techima, the infrastructure manager of Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympics programme, is the latest speaker to confirm his attendance at Building’s Global Infrastructure Forum in May.
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Stamp duty changes
Stamp duty must be revised to encourage private investment in new homes for rent, according to MPs
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Affordable homes
Housing minister John Healey this week signed off £500m of spending under the National Affordable Housing Programme to pay for 8,000 new affordable homes. He said 3,000 would be available through the HomeBuy scheme.
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Nakheel chief leaves Dubai firm
Nakheel’s chief commercial officer has left the state-linked Dubai developer, as its parent Dubai World tries to restructure $22bn (£14.3bn) of debt
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McCann Homes finance boss buys out chief executive
The former finance director of £73m–turnover family-run housebuilder McCann Homes has bought out the chief executive as part of a major restructure
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NewsMysterious cities of gold: Beijing's energy-producing park
The Chicago and China offices of architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have designed a plan for an energy-producing central park in Beijing’s Dawangjing district