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NewsBBC picks designers for £25m Cardiff centre
FAT Architecture and Holder Mathias set to work with Igloo Regeneration on new production hub
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FeaturesCurtain walling
Aluminium glazing specialist Technal has supplied facade systems for the latest project in the second phase of the Chelsea Football Club Training Academy campus in Surrey
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NewsUK workers turn to Iraq for jobs
White-collar construction staff turn in desperation to Iraq and Afghanistan, reveals recruitment agency
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NewsColleges forced back to basics for LSC cash
Colleges forced into huge cutbacks on project sustainability, scope and design to win LSC funding
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NewsVaughan Burnand to launch own construction business
Former Shepherd boss in talks with partners and investors over founding private sector venture
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Comment
Output figures show continued fall in cash flowing into construction
At first sight the latest construction output figures provide some relief. The fall in output in the second quarter of the year estimated to be just 0.5% and there was a slight rise in the output of new work measured in constant prices.But then it is always worth taking a ...
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NewsBats in the belfry
Malbork castle in Poland was getting a facelift when Piers Michell spotted these workman perched precariously on the roof. Let’s hope their recklessness doesn’t come home to roost
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FeaturesMixed ability: assessing the BSF programme
How has the Building Schools for the Future programme been doing since we last assessed it one year ago?
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CommentKeeping on keeping on: Sir Michael Latham on training
Building facilities for the wider education sector is one thing, but construction also has to make sure it keeps its own training system up to scratch
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FeaturesSchools funding: adding up for politicians
Once the UK’s borrowing hits 12% of GDP, how much money will be available to build schools? Well, that depends on how the next government does its sums
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CommentHansom super-size this
There’s nothing wrong with excess, whether taking a prodigious number of lunches or hundreds of trips abroad or lining your wall with mobile phones – but working at the weekend? That’s just too much
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FeaturesCanary contrary
Boris Johnson, mayor of London, has used his powers to determine a planning application in the capital for the first time
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HCA set to take stake in affordable housing schemes
Move follows public spat between London mayor and communities department over investment policy
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130 contractors sign up to build housing on public land
More than 130 contractors have applied to build homes under the Homes and Communities Agency’s public land initiative
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Comment
Getting the message across
I have sympathy with much of the sentiment in Tony Bingham’s article on cover pricing (28 August, page 42)
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CommentThe root of the problem
I am writing in regard to your article “Giant fly swats could suck up motorway fumes” (27 August)
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Comment
Fighting solves nothing
Much has been said and written recently on the expressed intention of some employers, in both the public and private sectors, to abandon framework agreements in favour of lowest price
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Comment
A better way
I was very interested to read the framework discussion between Don Ward and Stan Hornagold (7 August, page 32)
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Comment
Nobody’s perfect
Arguments against frameworks – here and elsewhere – seem to pick up on a few cases of bad procurement and apply these as true across all frameworks
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Comment
Sad state of affairs
With regards to the letter by KD Overment in your issue of 31 July (page 22), I have been involved in many projects for university buildings and find the attitude of the estates departments often depressing