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    Market hackers

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Four years after the dotcom crash, datacentres are becoming sexy again. But hold on, surely you have to be a technogeek to get a piece of the action? Well, not necessarily … Building explains how to hack into this rebooted sector.

  • Beverley Martin
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    Just the job: Beverley Martin, from mum to pm

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Until 10 years ago, Beverley Martin was a full-time mother - now she's managing a £3m airport project

  • Mark Cutler
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    Appointments

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Movers and Shakers this week

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    Hansom

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    This week we have motorbike crashes, pop culture, wads of cash, priceless jewels and giant bordellos … Ah, don’t you just love the construction industry?

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    Fly-fishing, by Anglian Water

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest the article titled “Supervillains”. As a building contractor, I have had numerous problems with utilities companies and can sympathise with Andrew Gill over the problems he had with Anglian Water.

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    East End enterprise

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    I think John Smith’s appraisal of the lack of training was very astute but I was wondering whether I could offer a glimmer of hope.

  • Comment

    Wrong, wrong, wrong

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    It is misleading and inaccurate to say that Acton Housing Association, part of the Dominion Housing Group, has “the worst record for spending”.

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    Disappointing performance

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Your article attempting to report on housing association spend was, unfortunately, wholly inaccurate and misleading.

  • News

    Three vie for McDonald’s top ODPM role

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Richard McCarthy, Neil Kinghan and Joe Montgomery vie for senior role at ODPM.

  • News

    Living in the dark ages

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Building on how current housing policies are depriving us of space and light

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    The Laird’s estate

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Michael Laird Architects has unveiled its designs for Leamington Wharf, a £2m waterside terrace of contemporary townhouses is located on a narrow strip of land next to the newly restored Union Canal in Edinburgh.

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    Former ODPM adviser calls for halt to new regulations

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Paul Everall, the man who oversaw the introduction of Part P and Part B, says there is ‘too much regulation’

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    Industry fatalities reach three-year high

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Seventy-two workers died in the construction industry in the past year, the highest number for three years, according to a report revealed this week.

  • Features

    Checklist

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Office fit-outs are carried out to tight deadlines and to tough client requirements. Barbour Index and Scott Brownrigg suggest how specifiers can ensure they deliver their brief

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    Specifier Products

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Everything you need to create a sophisticated, modern office environment, from frameless glass partitioning to wall-mounted uplighters, plus systems for heat recovery, air-handling and sunshading

  • Denise Chevin
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    A culture of collusion

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    It’s disappointing to see the reputation of the industry taking a battering again. That, inevitably, is the consequence of what the Office of Fair Trading is finding about anti-competitive practices in the construction sector.

  • News

    The golden Quartermile

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Laing O’Rourke Scotland has won the contract for the £350m Quartermile redevelopment of the former Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. The firm will begin construction work on the first phases of the 19 acre site in the next few weeks. The initial contract is worth in the region of £50m. Quartermile will ...

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    On-site renewable energy

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    A report has cast doubt on the government’s policy of encouraging the generation of on-site renewable energy.

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    Pressure on for more prisons

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The prison service has asked local authorities to identify sites for prisons in greater London as the government moves to accommodate record prison numbers.Planning consultant Paul Dickinson and Associates has been commissioned by the service to liaise with local authorities and it is understood that the firm is working with ...

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    Farrell team furious as Weymouth bid is rejected

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Council opts for rival bid for £90m waterfront scheme, despite initially backing Urban Catalyst–Terry Farrell team