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    RICS fees aren’t ‘dirt cheap’

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    A great idea for new members of professional institutions to interview the leaders, but your interviewer of the future RICS president was too easily fobbed off with trite answers (9 March).

  • Here’s a building for the digital age, so there’s a lot to learn from it. But what is it?
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    In the detail

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

  • A zero-carbon, zero-waste development in Brighton, by BioRegional Quintain and Crest Nicholson
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    Sustainability: Domestic power masterclass

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    With wind turbines for sale at DIY shops and a stampede breaking out for renewables grants, has micro-power generation really arrived? Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon considers the options for domestic low and zero-carbon systems, and adds up the costs

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    On the beach, in Leeds

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Landscape architect Martha Schwartz and architects Carey Jones and Feilden Clegg Bradley have unveiled this plan for Wellington Place, a new quarter in Leeds’ city centre.

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    Capita Symonds launches anti-terrorism division

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Capita Symonds has launched a national infrastructure security division in response to a growing demand from clients for protection from events such as terrorist attacks.

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    Tax increases in Budget could damage SMEs

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has hit out at the increase in corporation tax on small companies in last week’s Budget, saying it will hinder small and medium enterprises (SME) and benefit bigger players.

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    Sharewatch — Housebuilders’ shares climb in wake of Taywood deal

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    The industry, and housebuilders in particular, performed strongly last week as takeover talks fuelled share price rises even before this Monday’s announcement of the proposed merger of Taylor Woodrow and George Wimpey.

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    Tenants plan 500 new homes for Brixton estate

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    The transfer of a south London estate to a tenant-run housing association has opened the door for the development of more than 500 new homes.

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    A sprightly 90 year old

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Durkan has completed the final phase of a seven-year project to refurbish a historic south London housing estate.

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    Inspace plans more growth after 34% profit rise

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Inspace, Willmott Dixon’s demerged housing arm, has said it is committed to further growth after reporting a profit rise of more than a third in its full-year results.

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    Sellafield shortlist announced

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has announced the shortlist of firms bidding to take over management of the Sellafield reprocessing plant from 2008.

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    Minerva returns to profit, but fails to cheer the City

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Property company Minerva has posted a pre-tax profit of £15.4m in its interim results.

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    What a merger would mean for staff and rivals

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Mergers always lead to redundancies and the creation of Taylor Wimpey would be no exception.

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    Cameron sparks CDM debate

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    The revised CDM regulations are to be debated in parliament after Conservative leader David Cameron called for them to be cancelled.

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    First Olympic infrastructure tenders go to market

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has put contracts for the infrastructure for the Olympic park out for tender this week.

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    Perfect pitch

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Dublin’s football and rugby stadium at Lansdowne Road has finally been given the go-ahead from the An Bord Pleana (the Irish planning appeals board).

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    Former Northcroft chair joins T&T

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Mark van den Berg, the former chairman of consultant Northcroft, has joined Turner & Townsend to head the contract services division.

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    Motor City Norman

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Foster + Partners has beaten a star-studded shortlist to win a commission for a Motor City in Aragon, Spain.

  • Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport
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    Rogers wins the Pritzker

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers, the architect of Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport, has been awarded this year's Pritzker prize.

  • The museum’s entrance pavilion stands off to one side of the Italianate villa, behind a green veil of patterned glass
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    Veiled in emeralds: Zürich museum

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    This extension to a Zürich museum is a beguiling marriage of romance and modernism