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FeaturesThe golden age of travel
Is right now, thanks to the bulging pay packets, cushy expat packages, sexed-up CVs and challenging jobs that are on offer to UK professionals willing to work abroad.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Martin Chambers rejoices in the tuneful offerings of Birmingham International Convention Centre but deplores the Soviet-style design of Leeds’ Quarry House
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CommentYoung blood
Other professions may be more appealing to children, but they don’t all have their own GCSE or conduct multimillion-pound projects on school premises. It’s time construction made these factors count
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CommentWeb watch — Ecomarket sweep
Fear not specifiers, says Alex Smith. To help meet the barrage of sustainable standards that has been published recently, there is an assortment of green product resources on the internet
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Population pressure: can Britain learn to live with Hong Kong-style housing?
Developments are being built that cram 2,500 homes into a hectare, and more are on the way. A team of architects has reported on how we can manage the social strains that arise in such ‘superdense’ schemes
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NewsHopkins races away with Olympic velopark contract
Hopkins Architects has won the race to design the Olympic velopark, likely to be the last major design-led venue procured for the 2012 Games.The Hopkins consortium, which beat seven other teams, also included Expedition Engineering, sustainability consultant BDSP and landscape and masterplanning architect Grant Associates.The losers were David Chipperfield, ...
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After the event
This House of Lords decision concerns the assessment of damages to be awarded to an injured party to a contract that has been breached before the occurrence of an event which would give rise to a right to cancel (in this case, the Second Gulf War) and before the contract ...
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NewsTrillium snaps up Amec PPP arm for £163.5m
Deal with Land Securties Trillium includes sale of nine PFI projects that have reached financial close
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CommentJCT sleeps with the fishes
Standard forms are supposed to make things easy, but that wasn’t exactly the builder’s experience in Reinwood vs Brown. Maybe it’s time the whole lot were taken for a ride …
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FeaturesInside the project team
Now you’re all clued up on Manchester’s Civil Justice Centre, it’s time to meet the Aussies who designed it. Martin Spring got inside their mutual headspace. Portraits by Tim Foster
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Government work propels Kier to the top in June
Business barometer — Contractor picks up 33 small jobs while Balfour wins £331m hospital
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Mears denies ‘massaging’ figures as inquiry opens
Housing Corporation examines claims that repair firm provided false tenant satisfaction figures
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NewsBrown seeks alternative to PGS as he puts housing at the top of the agenda
Prime minister Gordon Brown this week put housing at the top of his agenda and said the planning gain supplement (PGS) bill would be deferred, if the industry could come up with a better alternative.
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Features‘I just feel the whole system is rather stupid’ — One man’s 14-year battle with the planning laws
Gerald Ringe had one of those classic dreams: buy an old wreck in the country and turn it into a rural retreat. But he hadn’t counted on the idiosyncrasies of our planning system. Fourteen years after his first planning application, he’s finally giving up. He tells Katie Puckett why…
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NewsNew logistics facility records major efficiencies
South London consolidation centre slashes site delivery by two thirds and emissions by three quarters
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Kiss and tell
The wrangles between Multiplex and Honeywell at Wembley have thrown up an interesting problem about whether information in a negotiated settlement can be disclosed in court
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The cosmic bungalow
Hydrogen is the basic building block of matter. When it fuses with itself, it releases enough energy to light the universe. When it combines with oxygen, it releases enough energy to heat a small house in the Black Country. Is it the answer to all our problems?
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NewsCommercial growth stutters
Growth in commercial development in June slowed to its lowest rate for five months according to property consultant Savills.
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NewsBoard averted ‘Kier scandal’
Measures put in place to avoid conflict of interest after Dodds and Mattar admitted relationship