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FeaturesDownsizing Dubai: Will the Middle East's golden child ever be the same again?
The UAE is waking up … but it has one hell of a hangover, and it’s going to take more than a couple of fizzy tablets to make it all better. So what sort of market is emerging? Well, the chances are it’s going to be good news for shed ...
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FeaturesZaha's Museum of Transport: The battle of the oil can
Zaha Hadid’s Museum of Transport in Glasgow was designed with gothic zinc-clad ridges and 100m-plus roof spans. They looked great on a computer screen, but led to memorable rows with the project team
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CommentHansom: Epic tales
Construction folk fight the good fight this week; they clash with an A-list celeb, stagger through hurricanes, take on insane safety regs and eat all the pies
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Going all out for 80 per cent
Construction’s reform agenda needs kickstarting and a review of how the industry is placed to respond to the demands of a low carbon economy could do the trick
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CommentWonders & blunders with Chris Johnson
The Thorncrown Chapel in Arizona is worth a special pilgrimage, says Chris Johnson, but a classic example of eighties City architecture should be sent for recycling
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Shoots without roots
Last Friday’s figures for Britain’s GDP confirmed that the economy is still in recession and although we will come out of it in the final quarter of 2009, construction will remain in recession
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Tender prices ‘to fall 25%’
The fall in tender prices accelerated in the three months to October, leaving them 15% lower than a year ago, according to Davis Langdon’s latest market forecast
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Sir Robert McAlpine faces £3.4m writ for rusty pipes
Sir Robert McAlpine is being sued for more than £3.4m by law firm Linklaters over M&E work at its Silk Street office in the City of London
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NewsComo frontrunner for £80m City bank fit-out
Mace fit-out subsidiary set to win major fit-out contract at London's Watermark Place
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Tories will ‘change law’ to curb HSE
An incoming Tory government may change the law to allow contractors to ban Health and Safety Executive inspectors from sites
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NewsA home for Harry
A planning application has been submitted to Haringey council for a 56,250-seat stadium for Tottenham Hotspur
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Balfour man takes Brinckerhoff’s top UK post
Parsons Brinckerhoff has appointed the director of Balfour Beatty Management managing director of its UK and European operations
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Rhondda valley correction
On 14 August 2009 Building published an article entitled “£36m hospital asks M&E engineer to foot bill for faulty floors”
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Latest construction appointments: 30th October 2009
Darren Wickins has become a director of the Asbestos Removal Contractors Association
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90% reject PAYE proposals
Almost nine out of 10 construction firms surveyed by KPMG said tax changes designed to tackle false self-employment were unnecessary
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NewsRogers visits green city in Gulf to help promote UK firms
Richard Rogers visited Foster + Partners’ Masdar City in Abu Dhabi last week to discuss opportunities for UK firms to work on it
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NewsGilding Guildford
Guildford council has given the green light to an £11m library at the University of Surrey’s Stag Hill campus in the town
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Housebuilders in crisis talks to cut regulatory burden
Communities department calls in housing chiefs as cost of regulations “threatens site viability”
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Tories pledge ‘swifter’ planning
Bob Neill, the shadow planning minister, has signalled that there would be a “presumption in favour of development” on sites that otherwise met planning policy under the Tories