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Dukeminster in road row with Tesco
Property developer goes to court over proposal to build an access road to a housing development
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NewsGuide to the six countries of the Gulf
Co-operation Council cover almost 2,5000,000km2, are home to nearly 35,000,000 people, and generate more than a trillion dollars a year. Here’s a whistlestop tour of the world’s fastest growing marketplace
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NewsRonald Barrott: ‘I’m not looking to take any lessons from Dubai at all’
Abu Dhabi developer Aldar’s commitment to sustainability, safety and partnership has made it the most progressive client in the Gulf. But it also has a staggering $65bn programme to support one of the most dramatic population explosions on Earth. How’s that going to work?
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NewsBurj Dubai: Top of the world
The designers of the Burj Dubai tell Katie Puckett how they tackled a very tall order
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NewsQatar: The quiet type
Despite its reputation as the Gulf’s gentle backwater, Qatar has some serious ambition – and the wealth to back it up.
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NewsGulf developers: the next generation
It’s not just about being the biggest, tallest and loudest anymore. Gulf developers have started to take urban planning, ecology and regeneration very seriously indeed. And if they happen to be better at it than anybody else, then so be it...
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NewsDubai labourers: A matter of life and death
For too long, Dubai’s labourers have had to put up with dangerous working conditions on site and miserable living conditions off it. Can a voluntary charter set up by a group of contractors change anything? They certainly think so
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CommentMy digital life: Neill Pawsey
Enthusiastic cyber-citizen Neill Pawsey is happy to have meetings, study, chat and read the paper online. The only thing that holds him back is his bandwidth
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for rightmove.co.uk
When I meet Miles Shipside, commercial director at Rightmove.co.uk, he seems like he needs a drink. We meet in the (kind of) splendour of Newport’s Celtic Manor hotel complex, the chosen venue for the 2010 Ryder Cup.
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CommentIt all used to be so simple…
… but these days building seems more about feeding the surreal imaginations of planning officers and keeping a whole army of specialist consultants employed.
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Comment
Pour on water, pour on water
Your article, In the line of fire (18 July, page 72) mentioned, alongside the advantages, some perceived drawbacks to the installation of sprinkler systems in schools.
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Bravo Bingham
Tony Bingham’s regular articles often make a lot of sense, but his article on ditching the training levy (8 August, page 43) seemed to have even more sense per column centimetre than usual.
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CommentWinter warmers
As the nights draw in, hospitality and goodwill abound, from friendly Swedish engineers, an extremely generous salary offer and a kind invitation to take up residence in a caravan
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FeaturesHow I conquered the world: interview with Benoy's Graham Cartledge
Benoy chairman Graham Cartledge turned a firm that mostly designed Nottinghamshire farm buildings into a £38m global player. Here he talks to Emily Wright about ruthless calculation, creeping mortality and the phone call that changed his life
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CommentThe end of the spend
The boom in vanity projects is over. Design can no longer rule. Instead, Colin Harding asks if construction and its clients are finally ready to learn the lessons Sir John Egan taught in 1998