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Minister predicts death of brick and concrete in decades
Phil Woolas claims renewable materials are the way forward. Manufacturers hit out at the prediction as a "sweeping statement"
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Paper round: Home sells for £80m but no housewarming for homeless
Pink Floyd star's plans for homeless accommodation in London are turned down as world's most expensive house is sold nearby
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EC Harris says 25% of profit comes from outside UK
Consultant issues results and says pre-tax profit has grown 17% to £33.2m
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Edward Cullinan to masterplan Hong Kong university scheme
Architect appointed jointly with Aedas to oversee 30,000-student expansion
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Government to consult on building new universities
Report says local higher-education provision is key to economic regeneration
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UK in top league for sustainable inventions
Government hopes to nurture tomorrow's inventors with competition for schoolchildren featuring Wallace and Gromit
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Junior Open House seeks design mentors for children
Education charity is recruiting design professionals to inspire a love of architecture among young people
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Iconic pavements and aiming high
Wayne Hemingway fears that we’re making the Thames Gateway too difficult to love and warns against designing houses “from the bottom up”
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No more nods to Noddy
Stephen Bayley explains how a “Marks & Spencer’s food” approach to architecture could help restore Britain’s lost reputation as a builder of great communities, ensuring that the Thames Gateway becomes a place to stay in, rather than to escape from – and why Noddy needs to leave his car at ...
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A framework and a focus
Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage, believes that only a small part of the potential of the Thames Gateway’s historic environment has been tapped; much remains that could be used to create distinctive, successful and ultimately sustainable communities
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Mayor announces green public buildings incentive
London Mayor launches procurement process to let every public sector organisation in the city cut energy use
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New green funds examined
Kenmore, Palmer Capital Partners and Aberdeen Property Investors set up sustainable property funds
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Cyril Sweett acquires Jones Sweett
Consultant expands business in Middle East with acquisition of international alliance partner
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Ecobuild video report
See interviews with visitors and exhibitors at this week's show, includings Gleeds head of sustainability Jerry Percy
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The Middle East green building challenge
Special report: Now that the ruler of Dubai wants the city to be at the forefront of sustainable design, how will developers respond? Katie Puckett went to the United Arab Emirates to find out if the region really can have it all. With sustainable case studies.
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Adjudication:The glass is half full, Rupert
Rupert Choat cited the number of cases that adjudication has thrown up, listed problems with some grey areas and concluded that the glass was half empty. Here’s the other side of the story
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Web watch — Measuring up
In the third of his series on construction industry websites, Martin Hornagold turns his attention to surveyors and again finds that they are failing basic tests