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FeaturesSupervillains
They have the power to delay one out of every three projects in Britain. They can take months to produce a simple quote. They can charge you £4000 before they begin to think about supplying a water mains. They are … utility companies.
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Curtain walling
In the latest of our specialist market overviews, Duncan Smith of Gardiner & Theobald examines the vibrant sector of curtain walling. Plus we give an expert at a top company a grilling …
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Ex-Amey director leads Augmentis buyout
Robert Osbourne becomes chief executive at consultant, where he aims to to triple profits in three years
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FeaturesShow homes
This year’s Housing Design Awards, announced last night, have again shunned the executive box and instead celebrated some of the finest examples of high-density urban housebuilding.
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CommentStick this in your pipe …
Anybody who’s had the experience of persuading a utility company’s call centre to deal with a bill that seems to have acquired an extra couple of noughts will empathise with the National Federation of Builders’ members.
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Amec boss sacked over wife’s £250k PR contracts
Company says Stephen Bowcott was dismissed for awarding contracts to PR executive, who he married last month
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Design champions
Like the eight winners in the completed projects category of this year’s Housing Design Awards, announced yesterday, the 10 designs to triumph in the unbuilt schemes category all demonstrate imaginative ways to regenerate brownfield sites.
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Government finally faces its critics over planning system
As government unveils planning proposals, planners and housebuilders complain that it has been ‘far too long’
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Fifteen golden rules
I am sure Keith Pickavance needs no advice from me about the real cause of disputes such as Wembley (Letters, 24 June, page 40).
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Brain matter
It was a pity that your recent article on women in construction (10 June, pages 28-31) failed to point out the basic fact that most people working in today's construction industry use their brains, not their bare hands.
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Morgan the martyr
I note that Launce Morgan, the chairman of the RICS construction faculty, has resigned from that appointment and his job at Northcroft (8 July, page 15).
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Steady on …
I’m delighted to see that you thought it worth noting that maids in Notting Hill were Filipina.
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CommentTraining for the Olympics
If winning the Olympics was a triumph, building them will be a miracle. The reason is that we don’t have enough skilled workers – but who’s to blame for that?
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NewsIce station on skis
Faber Maunsell and Hugh Broughton Architects have won the British Antarctic Survey competition to design the Halley VI Research Station in Antarctica.
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GLA to review Gateway vision
London mayor Ken Livingstone has appointed developer Urban Catalyst to work on a major review of the Greater London Authority’s vision for the Thames Gateway
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Delay in energy rules threatens targets
The government’s target of cutting carbon emissions 20% by 2010 is being threatened by a delay in the introduction of energy regulations.
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NewsStraight up, with a twist
Consultant EC Harris has been appointed commercial consultant on the 80-storey al-Durrah tower in the Gulf state of Dubai.