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Correction
Due to a production error, the photographs of Andy Ritchie, global board director of Ryder Levett Bucknall, and Phil Dalglish, Saudi Arabia director for Buro Happold, were inadvertently transposed in the article “Make a wish” (9 April)
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CommentHansom: Bitter pills
There’s been much that’s hard to swallow of late in the world of construction, whether it be workers standing idle, a critic’s harsh words, a questionable quiz defeat or a whole sheep’s head
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FeaturesGareth Darbyshire: the £20m 20-year-old
While most students rough it, Gareth Darbyshire prefers to swank it up at Claridge’s. But then, between lectures, he does run his own £20m-turnover contracting company. Not bad for someone who just turned 20
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CommentHuman beans
Our percentage fee culture treats architects and engineers like commodities and actually pays them less the better their designs work. Time for a rethink
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CommentWonders & blunders
Erica Wagner chooses two avant-garde icons for us, one of them a triumph of American engineering, the other an Anglo-Italian blemish on the Beaubourg
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CommentIs the housing market turning?
This is, of course, the question that everybody wants to know the answer to. So let’s put all the evidence together and work out what it tells us...
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CommentPlaying golf with Superman: Multiple adjudications
If you had to decide a dispute involving 51,000 job orders in 28 days, would you need to wear your underpants outside your clothes? Well, the following case put this to the test
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Lip service won't do: Discrimination in construction
Now there’s even more reason to make clear your commitment to equality and diversity: if you don’t, you won’t secure those multimillion-pound public sector contracts
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Mini cost model update: Small projects
Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon revisits industrial units, primary schools and primary healthcare centres to investigate how recent dramatic falls in tender prices have affected building costs
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FeaturesOn air: BSkyB's naturally ventilated studios
Bent on building Europe’s most sustainable broadcasting facility, BSkyB opted for natural ventilation for its new television studios. But how to stop outside noise from ruining the latest episode of Gladiators?
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Injured worker sues Vinci UK for £250,000 in compensation
A construction worker who was seriously injured when he was knocked into a trench by an excavator has launched a legal battle for up to £250,000 in compensation
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NewsOrwell's latest: £15m RMJM scheme at University Campus Suffolk
Willmott Dixon has been appointed preferred bidder on this £15m college development in Ipswich for University Campus Suffolk
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CommentI beg to differ: Response to Rupert Choat on the Construction Act
Rupert Choat has many useful things to say about the proposed amendments to the Construction Act. But in his criticism of payment security, he’s just plain wrong
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NewsProfit up 39% at social housing group Connaught
Social housing group Connaught boosted pre-tax profit by 39% from £9.7m to £13.5m in the year ended 28 February 2009
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Brick firm Michelmersh loses £2.9m
Brick manufacturer Michelmersh fell £2.9m into the red in 2008 as a result of the housing slump and higher energy costs
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Telford buoyed by refinancing deal and housing agency grant
London housebuilder Telford Homes has struck a refinancing deal with its lenders to secure its future
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Stoke regeneration
A group of regeneration agencies is looking for developers for an £85m project in Stoke-on-Trent
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First-time buyer woes
Greater restrictions on mortgage lending mean that first-time buyers are still shut out of the housing market, despite price falls, a housing charity has found
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Right on Time
The £80m Time Square regeneration site in the centre of Warrington has been purchased by the North West Development Agency