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NewsCan do: 17 tubular steel “cans” in Brighton
David Marks of Marks Barfield Architects and John Roberts of Jacobs Engineering inspect the 17 tubular steel “cans” that will make up the 180m-high, i360 observation mast in Brighton
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FeaturesMcCain and Obama: Where do they stand on construction?
They’re the two most talked about men in the world, but where do John McCain and Barack Obama stand on the issues that matter to the construction industry? With four days to go until election day, Roxane McMeeken and Emily Wright find out what they’ve pledged
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CommentLet’s talk about sects
The Sect of the Great Mystery, that is, as nurtured by the high priests of modern British architecture. Only in the US is there a place for non-believers
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CommentBuilding buys a margarita … for Stantec
“‘Rubbish.’ That’s such a great English word. So much better than ‘trash’,” says Eric through a mouthful of guacamole. “Ru-bbish. Ru-bbish.”
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Ministers warned net mortgage lending ‘may hit zero in 2009’
Net mortgage lending could fall to zero next year, lenders have told ministers.
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NewsHighlands in the Fens
Developer Highland Homes has just won planning permission for this city-centre project in Cambridge.
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Not working out
I just read your article about Bouygues UK carrying out warm-up exercises on their sites (17 October, page 54).
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Safety first
The recent blaze in the Channel Tunnel was a worrying echo of the fire in 1996.
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Way off target
The generally perceived view is that targets in policing and the health sector are counterproductive.
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A very cross industry approach
Having read your ConstructionSkills article (17 October, page 38), I would totally support the views of Mark Farrar.
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Forward planning
Mike Davies is incorrect to say that the Royal Town Planning Institute has “inevitably created an academic closed shop that has contributed to the shortage of qualified planners” (17 October, page 32).
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NewsFlash Splash: FAT designs bus stops
Developer Urban Splash plans to erect two of these ornate bus stops, designed by architect FAT, at its New Islington development in Manchester
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Citywatch: ‘Vanilla’ Barratt gets whipped
As the graph shows, Barratt and Taylor Wimpey continued to take the biggest hammering on the stock market last week thanks to their high debt.
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Coleman: I’m leaving, but Bovis’ journey is still continuing
Murray Coleman’s exit from the UK business is the culmination of a two-and-a-half year strategy to turn the fortunes of Bovis Lend Lease around, but the outgoing chief executive said this week that it had “not yet reached the end of its journey”.
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Who is Nick Pollard?
A civil engineer by background, Nick Pollard has been at Bovis since joining from Skanska in October 2007 as a virtual chief executive in waiting.
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HSE demands safety overhaul
The chair of the Health and Safety Executive has said construction needs to overhaul its attitude to safety after new figures showed more fatal injuries occurred in construction this year than in any other industry group
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Third runway in doubt
Plans for a third runway at Heathrow are looking shaky after a parliamentary campaign was launched calling for them to be scrapped.
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Tube station revamp
London Underground has opened the bidding for the redevelopment of Tottenham Court Road station in a deal worth up to £300m.