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Features
£300m hospital takes Bovis to the top of August league
After a quiet July, Bovis Lend Lease climbs 29 places – and stays well ahead in the annual contractor charts
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FeaturesMillau Viaduct: C’est magnifique!
Foster and Partners’ Viaduc de Millau in southern France is the highest, longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, and it opens in December. We admire the view, talks to the engineer and meets some enthusiastic locals.
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People who need people
This year’s Building/Hays Montrose careers survey found that construction’s workforce is overwhelmingly concerned with the problem of recruitment and training staff. We analyse the statistics
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Concrete frames
In the first of our specialist market overviews, Ian Purton of Gardiner & Theobald looks at the concrete sector’s lead times and costs
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FeaturesSpecialist Q&A
John Doyle Construction, part of the John Doyle Group, specialises in the construction of substructure, superstructure and infrastructure projects. Stef Stefanou is the firm’s urbane chairman.
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CommentThe green choke-chain
Architects and other designers face environmental liabilities that will be extremely hard to comply with – but potentially ruinous if ignored, says Ian Abley
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FeaturesThe burning of the bodies
Construction’s institutions may have been dealt a deadly blow last week, when they were attacked as isolationist and threatened with merger plans. We report on how reforms could spell the end of professional bodies as we know them
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FeaturesWhat a result!
Last week, Wembley stadium opened its doors to the public to win over those who would be the Arch’s stiffest opposition – local residents and fans of the old twin towers. We went along to watch the project engineers rack up some PR points
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Features
Not an ivory tower …
… so much as a giant titanium egg, which Napier University has cooked up to attract students away from Edinburgh’s other universities – with a little help from Building Design Partnership.
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Comment
Transatlantic drift
The neat substitution of “USA” for “UK” in a quote attributed to me (“Architect quits over troubled Nato project”, 10 September, page 10) certainly makes for more titillating and incendiary copy than the facts.
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Comment
Getting the wind-up
There are less catastrophic, but just as effective, methods of securing payment than resorting to a winding-up petition (13 August, page 34; Letters, 17 September, page 32).
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Comment
Delayed reaction
The letter from Peter Atherton regarding the lack of skilled labour (3 September, page 35) brings to mind some information I read in Peter Nicholson’s Encyclopedia of Architecture.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Chris Donald, former editor of Viz magazine, raises a cheer for Victorian station houses and two fingers to a 1960s office block
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Comment
Back issues - September 1914
Lessons from Germany: Absent architects and the French Parthenon …
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NewsMoayedi makes shock return to construction
Ex-Jarvis boss buys waste treatment specialist to exploit boom in reclaiming contaminated brownfield land
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News
Ex-BBC man joins Paddington PFI team
Former BBC property director Ian Robertson is to have a key role in talks on delivering the £800m Paddington Health Campus PFI project in west London
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NewsLess red tape if Conservatives win, says Letwin
Shadow chancellor Oliver Letwin has told the construction industry it would face less bureaucracy over building schools and hospitals if the Conservatives win the next election.
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NewsTowering ambitions
Richard Rogers Partnership’s design for a 280,000 m2 tower complex at Riverside South in Docklands, east London, has received planning permission.