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Public sector clients team up to tackle issue of delays
Procurement problems will be main focus of the newly launched Public Sector Construction Clients’ Forum.
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NewsMore problems for Wembley as car park hits delays
Multiplex’s FA Cup hopes fade as car park is delayed by two months and striking steelworkers fail to return to site.
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Healthcare
This weeks Specifier checks up on the world of health, including the best and most cost-effective methods of tackling superbugs, plus products fit for a 21st-century hospital. But first, the story behind Europes first ever modular radiotherapy centre for cancer patients, which opens this month in London
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Industry experts cautiously optimistic about 2006
After wayward predictions last year, economic consultants say growth is likely – but dependant on government
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NewsBids for social housing grant fail to impress
The Housing Corporation has only allocated two-thirds of the money available under its pilot programme for developers because many of the bids were not good enough.
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NewsNew-build completions in November
Completions show rises in most areas, but particularly in the South-east, Scotland and the West Midlands
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FeaturesYour passage to India
One of the fastest-growing economies on the planet, India will be the second biggest economy in the world by the middle of this century.
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FeaturesMusic, maestro
Santiago Calatrava’s £82m opera house in Valencia is a symphony in concrete and glass: the largest auditorium in Europe and the centrepiece of an arts and sciences complex designed by the local virtuoso
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CommentThe troubles we’ve seen
If there’s one thing you can confidently predict about 2006 it’s that the rows that raged in 2005 will rage on. In case you needed reminding, here they are …
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Not bad, not biased and not barking
Depending on who you ask, the new NEC contract displays favouritism to contractors or employers. In fact, it is the lawyers who amend it who are causing the problems
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CommentBosses beware
his year is going to be packed with changes to employment law. This is what you need to know on age discrimination, illegal workers, TUPE and more …
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FeaturesYou know what your trouble is?
Now that we’re in the penitential month of January, it’s time to take a long, cold, sober look at what’s wrong with everybody else. So here’s how the professions think their industry colleagues could improve …
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CommentThe Shanghai express
Sir Terry Farrell’s vision for the Thames Gateway, which is largely accepted by David Miliband, is exactly what we should avoid. Instead, we should look to the East
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CommentConsider Macau
When it comes to high-rise living, the Far East has got it down to a fine art. So why can’t our own crowded little island do something similar?
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FeaturesWorld service
The attractions of foreign labour extend beyond the waking giant of India. More and more UK companies are finding more and more ways of using the global labour force to boost performance. Thomas Lane reports on who’s doing what, and how much money they’re saving
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Projects update: Regulations
Not only is the controversial Code for Sustainable Homes a watered-down version of BRE’s EcoHomes scheme, but it will have to be revised in about three years …
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NewsMore problems for Wembley as car park hits delays
Multiplex’s FA Cup hopes fade as car park is delayed by two months and striking steelworkers fail to return to site
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Holyrood boss to head £2bn Dubai scheme
Alan Mack, the man in charge of the construction of the Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh, is leaving Bovis to become the project director of Carillion’s £2bn Festival City project in the Gulf state of Dubai.