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NewsBroadway Malyan wins British school job in Abu Dhabi
Broadway Malyan has pipped Foster + Partners and Aedas to a commission for a British school in Abu Dhabi
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NewsHow the state helped – and didn’t
The public sector provided the vast bulk of any work there was in 2009, with fears that spending would slow before the election not holding true
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NewsA green revolution
The carbon-cutting campaign gathered momentum as the year went on, culminating in the Copenhagen summit of world leaders in December – and a last-minute appearance by US president Barack Obama
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NewsAn industry of ill-repute
The public’s opinion of construction took a hammering in 2009 with the Office of Fair Trading’s allegations of tender malpractice against 110 firms
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NewsHanging together
Construction’s disparate yet oddly indistinguishable trade bodies have, as noted by James Wates some years ago, long borne a worrying resemblance to Monty Python’s Judean People’s Front, the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean Popular People’s Front, at least in the eyes of Whitehall
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NewsA Right royal row
Prince Charles is well-known in for his vitriol towards all things carbuncular, but nobody could have predicted the row that kicked off when he criticised Richard Rogers’ designs for the Chelsea Barracks scheme in April
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Quotes of the year
"The crisis was predictable and probably avoidable. The final confusion in communication made a bad situation worse"Sir Andrew Foster, former chair of the audit commission, gives his verdict on the Learning and Skills Council debacle"He’s a menace to London"George Ferguson, former RIBA president, on Rafael Viñoly"I’ll stay on. A million ...
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NewsA trail of destruction
The year began on a bleak note when it was confirmed on 23 January that the UK had entered recession for the first time since the early nineties
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NewsThis man must be stopped
No hard hat, no high-vis jacket, no harness, and I suspect his reindeer were doing more than 10mph too
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CommentHansom: I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true. But until then, you’ll have to make do with more stories about disgruntled surveyors, Olympic cash and out-of-work architects
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FeaturesTime to di(n)e: the Christmas construction cook-off
Dinner parties are a serious business. So when Building invited three of its regular contributors to take part in a festive Come Dine With Me, the question was: would it be a chance for like-minded professionals to chew the fat, or would things turn bloody? Armed only with a fork, ...
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CommentThe decade from hell: Legal review
It ended badly and, to be honest, it didn’t start that auspiciously either, but at least it also contained some reforms that may well stand the test of time
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CommentRemember 1666?
Isn’t it about time that building control officers stood up against the green brigade and used some common sense?