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  • Photo by Libi Pedder
    Features

    No regrets

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The chairman of Wembley National Stadium Limited has broken his silence on the project, but don't ask him to take the blame for its troubles.

  • Hearst’s six-storey headquarters has been scooped out to leave a vast entry hall, where raking columns support a new 42-storey tower
    Features

    A midtown Xanadu

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Foster and Partners has turned a Manhattan office into a 48-storey tower. Here's an exclusive look at the arrestingly cinematic interior

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    The correct use of courts

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The legal system would work a lot better if it were used as a last chance to settle disputes, rather than a blunt instrument to beat, baffle and bore one's enemy into submission

  • Comment

    How Arsenal moved home

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Knowing the form - Steven Edwards, the self-confessed Gooner who acted for his favourite team, tells us about the amazingly complex deals that lay behind the building of the Emirates Stadium

  • Patrick Holmes
    Comment

    The shape of things to come

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The judgment in a recent asbestos case could have dramatic benefits for firms in the construction industry - if the courts choose to apply its logic to them

  • Helen Garthwaite
    Comment

    Taking the easy way out

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Cynics in the mediation fraternity have raised doubts that TCC judges will be any good as mediators, but unhappy souls embroiled in litigation may have another view

  • Comment

    Bad reaction

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    I couldn't agree less with the articles "Edge of darkness" and "Seconds to midnight" (26 May, pages 26-27 and 32-34). As Amory Lovins said recently, "If nuclear power is the answer, then you've asked the wrong question".

  • Comment

    Slightly off target

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    I find it encouraging that the mayor of London is being so ambitious when it comes to energy targets (2 June, page 12). However, when you start comparing what is desirable to what is realistic, you realise that the thinking is a little less than fully joined-up.

  • Comment

    Look at my medal

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    I was delighted to read your feature on Bournemouth Arts Institute's Enterprise Pavilion (19 May, pages 56-59).

  • Comment

    Strangely silent

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    It has been interesting to read the responses made by colleagues in the construction industry to Ray O'Rourke's perspective on women and migrant workers.

  • Comment

    Success breeds inertia

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    What do Ray O'Rourke's view of women in construction and Multiplex's views on how to work with subcontractors have in common?

  • Comment

    Three steps to heaven

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Many thanks to Robert Sissons of Brett Construction for this example of church maintenance from Bruges, Belgium. Clearly a man who feels he has God on his side.

  • Comment

    In the detail

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

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

  • Lord Rogers and Renzo Piano
    Features

    Herd the one about the two architects and the sheep?

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Making the news An exclusive joint interview with Renzo Piano and Lord Richard Rogers, moments after they successfully conveyed a flock of sheep across the Millennium Bridge

  • Higgins: Delivery partner will need ‘local knowledge and has to understand the local supply chain’
    News

    Higgins promises Olympic gold for local contractors

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Olympic Delivery Authority chief executive intends to make sure South-east's subcontractors win work on London 2012 projects

  • Bulley: Looking for senior architects, engineers and QSs to join LOCOG
    News

    2012 team beefs up

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games plans to beef up its in-house team from 85 to 120 people by March 2007.

  • Supermarket chain Asda is to try out wind turbines, solar panels and ground source heat pumps at a £20m store in Merseyside
    News

    Asda plans £20m green superstore

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Supermarket chain Asda is to try out wind turbines, solar panels and ground source heat pumps at a £20m store in Merseyside

  • Features

    Appointments

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Career movers this week ...

  • Visualisations of the double-decker lifts. Users enter the double-deck car simultaneously from two adjacent floors, having prebooked their journey using their ID card or a touchscreen terminal
    Features

    Express elevation

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Double-deck lifts - Office workers at Broadgate Tower won't be hanging around waiting in the lobby. They'll be speeding up its 34 storeys in the latest lift innovation.

  • Features

    Help!

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    By 2010, the average graduate will owe the banks £33,700. There's only one way to pay it back: get a job with a decent salary. So Katie Puckett asked 20 top construction employers how much they're offering