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    Man from the JCT

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Jeff Brown’s article on JCT 2005 and third-party rights (27 October, page 54) refers to a glaring omission.

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    In the detail

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

  • Paul Wallwork: could he be Gleeson’s next chief executive?
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    What do you think of it so far?

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    MAKING THE NEWS — Gleeson’s interim chief executive waits to hear if he’s got the nod

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    WWF urges five year target for zero carbon homes

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Green pressure group calls for government to make zero carbon condition of public funding

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    An arrival in Dresden

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Dresden station reopened this week after a £94m refurbishment designed by Foster and Partners and Buro Happold.

  • The Royal London hospital, part of a £1.2bn PFI
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    Waiting to get better

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    It’s been pumped full of cash, had its hospitals replaced, its contractors reorganised and its clinics transplanted, and it’s still £1bn in debt and most of its procurement methods don’t work terribly well. Mark Leftly reports on what’s gone wrong with the government’s health policy

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    Beer, cannabis, glue and a generous helping of lime

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    No, not a recipe for a quiet night in, but rather the ingredients of Adnams’ deep green distribution centre. Thomas Lane went to Suffolk to meet a brewer with a difference

  • Garry Reynolds (left) with Peter O’Brien: IDM’s co-founders are confident of further success in the hotels market
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    What we’ve got cooking

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    SME FOCUS — Fit-out specialist IDM is thriving by targeting upmarket clients such as Jamie Oliver

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    Starting out

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    For managers on site, taking responsibility for health and safety can be a matter of life and death. And for graduates in their early twenties, that responsibility can weigh very heavily indeed.

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    Best yet

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    The latest survey by Experian Business Strategies shows that employment prospects hit a 2006 high in September, while orders and tender enquiries looked healthy for the third month in a row, particularly in the non-residential sector

  • Generous The Golden Lane estate is a grade II-listed scheme that was completed in the mid 1960s and comprises 557 flats and maisonettes. It is located within the Square Mile, of the City of London, adjacent to the Barbican estate
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    Wonders & blunders

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Eric Parry hails one bucolic estate in the Square Mile, and rails against many, many others, all over the country

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    Gay and lusty commoners that will ramp and thrive...

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    BACK ISSUES — October 1945 Sodom and Gomorrah

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    Pru drops housing plan after watchdog threatens veto

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Insurance giant to revise Reading scheme after Environment Agency raises flood worries

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    Top housing plan

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    HOUSING STATS — This month the SE England Development Agency is the biggest client and work is well up in the South-east

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    Arup and Rendel ride in to fix Ascot grandstand crisis

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Consultants are drafted in after racecourse receives more than 1,000 complaints

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    Ready for the off

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Ascot was hailed as a triumph when the revamp was completed in time for Royal Ascot this year, but since then it has been criticised by punters who say they cannot see the track properly from the grandstand.

  • McCarthy:  His appointment would avoid the merger being seen as a takeover
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    McCarthy tipped for Communities England

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Senior civil servant Richard McCarthy has been lined up to head Communities England, the body that would be formed from a merger of English Partnerships and the Housing Corporation

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    Dispute over White City subcontractors settled

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Westfield has ended a dispute over its selection of subcontractors on the White City project in west London.

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    New CSCS for professionals

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    The Construction Skills Certification Scheme was extended this week to cover professional occupations, including engineering, quantity surveying and architecture.

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    Rate of deaths and serious injuries falls over past year

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    The rate of deaths and serious injuries in construction has fallen over the past year, according to the latest report from the Health and Safety Executive.