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FeaturesBao Guangjian: man of steel
Bao Guangjian is China’s most innovative steel specialist and the driving force behind Beijing’s impossible-to-build television centre – and even he is a little concerned about whether it’ll stay up … we went to meet him in Shenzhen
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Local lowdown: Scottish Highlands
Robert Smith of Hays Construction & Property reports on the Scottish Highlands
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Just about holding up
Last year, construction output grew more than the UK economy as a whole, but the outlook over the next few years is flatter than Patagonia. Experian Business Strategies crunches the numbers
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NewsWillmott sees PFI entry as ‘main challenge’ for future
With profit passing £10m, the Willmott Dixon boss is confident he will avoid the losses incurred at other big names
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CommentAn admission
The answer to the future energy needs of the UK is to be found in the power plants of Woking. Or should that be the wind farms of Denmark? Hang on …
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NewsNew man at the ministry walks into row over PPG3
Argument over planning gain will be high on the agenda for David Miliband, Prescott’s lieutenant at the ODPM
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ODPM doesn’t rule out ‘Solent Gateway’
The ODPM has denied reports that it is set to authorise a 140,000-home housing growth area between Southampton and Portsmouth.
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Tory gains reflect discontent
The government’s plans for building up to 1.1m homes in the South-east by 2016 could be undermined by Conservative election victories in the four housing growth areas.
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FeaturesDaniel Libeskind
As rumours circulate of year-long delays and complete redesigns at Ground Zero, we talk to the man responsible about why his long, bitter struggle with rival architects, the New York press and the site owner (among others) is a sign that things are going pretty well …
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2711 blocks, 6 million deaths
Berlin’s Jewish memorial uses abstract art on a monumental scale to commemorate the victims of the Nazi Holocaust
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A dirty story
Taking on a contaminated site is risky because it’s hard to be sure what’s down there. Now environmental consultants have found a way to manage the risk better
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A difficulty with defects
In a situation using a JCT contract where a retention is being held and the certificate of making good defects has not been issued, but latent defects have arisen after the expiry of the defects liability period, is it within the employer’s powers to withhold the retention?
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Go to the adjudicator
It made me sad to read the story of Alan Danieli, the small builder being driven out of business by unpaid accounts.
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Head for the homeowners contract
My heart went out to this small contractor whose story I hear echoed by countless clients, some like him, others – often pensioners or those on low incomes – who have been ripped off by contractors less conscientious than Mr Danieli.