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CommentSix ways to handle risk
Do you deal with the terrifying business of building with the help of an umbrella, an ostrich, your small intestines, your muscles, a snowboard or a mushroom?
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Tolson III: The Reckoning
Tune into the latest episode of our real-life renovation saga, where our hero and his family finally take possession and live happily ever after – apart from the snagging
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Before BUMA
You state that the Hyde Housing Association scheme in south London by Polish company BUMA, which cost £1260/m2, “brings prefabrication within Housing Corporation budgets for the first time” (23 July, page 12).
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Name that tree
To the timber industry, the names of timber, wood, hardwood and softwood are fundamental.
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FeaturesDear Chris, we wish you were here...
Chris Eubank is charming, eccentric and unpredictable. He is also part of City Partnership, the consortium mounting a last-ditch bid to save Brighton’s grade I-listed West Pier from demolition. We went to discover what the story was – and was just a little surprised at what he found
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FeaturesRiders in the sky
To be a cyclist in London today requires the kind of spirit usually shown by those piloting experimental aircraft and one-man submarines. But with a little help from prefabrication and cutting-edge plastics, tomorrow might just be different …
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NewsPersimmon has ‘no need to buy’ as profit rockets 45%
Finance boss insists housebuilder will grow organically, despite rumours that it is planning an acquisition
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NewsBroker’s notes: The tears and the triumphs …
Share prices are like the Olympics, aren’t they, dear reader? Now bear with me on this one … It’s because both are full of highs and lows.
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NewsTurn, turn, turn
The rotating observation tower at the Glasgow Science Centre reopened yesterday, two-and-a-half years after technical problems caused it to close. The bearings on which the £10m structure turns failed when oil and water flooded the basement. The 400 ft tower, designed by Building Design Partnership based on a concept by ...
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CPC fights for life after Lion Plaza catastrophe
Directors mount rescue bid after disastrous City scheme forces project manager into administration
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NewsA maer sleekit
Edinburgh council’s development company, EDI Group, has won planning permission for a mixed-use scheme containing offices, leisure and retail elements, all linked by a five-storey public arcade and square. The scheme, for a derelict goods yard next to Haymarket Station to the west of the city centre, is being designed ...
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Eubank wins backing to save West Pier
Property group Marylebone Warwick Balfour is understood to have backed a last-ditch bid by ex-boxer Chris Eubank to save Brighton’s crumbling West Pier
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Sacked steelworkers press on with Wembley pickets
Sacked steelworkers at Wembley national stadium were still demonstrating at the site as Building went to press, despite apparently having no support from unions.
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ABI warns Berkeley bosses
The Association of British Insurers has issued regeneration specialist Berkeley Group with its most severe corporate governance warning.
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NewsBovis plans joint ventures with General Property Trust
Contractor discusses European retail jobs with the Australian developer after its merger with parent Lend Lease
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Heritage fund signals new activism
New developments, such as those in the Thames Gateway, may have to adhere to codes for culture as well as design under plans being considered by the Heritage Lottery Fund
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Six in race for ice station Halley
Six multidisciplinary teams have made the shortlist of a competition to design a scientific research station in Antarctica. The Halley VI competition, which was run by the British Antarctic Survey and the RIBA, attracted 86 entries. The architects on the shortlist are: Lifschutz DavidsonHugh Broughton ArchitectsFrancis Design–BMT Nigel Gee and ...
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Artistic leanings
Artistic leaningsArtistic leaningsIWA Architects has completed this feasibility study for an £8m arts complex at the St Mary’s Centre site in Clitheroe, Lancashire. The complex will have a 600-seat multipurpose hall and two cinemas with seating for 270 and 70 people respectively. The project team included engineers Max Fordham and ...
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NewsICE: Flood defences would not have saved Boscastle
Engineering body says only feasible defence for devastated Cornish village would be wider river channel