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Green and gold
Transforming a dilapidated sliver of suburbia into award-winning, sedum-roofed housing was easy enough on paper. The hard part was pruning the specification to preserve the eco-friendly design – within budget.
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Local lowdown: London
Celebrities are searching for quick-thinking, tight-lipped site managers, but they aren't the only clients hiring in London. Robert Smith of Hays Montrose reports
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Broker's notes: Scoring points in the City
Why, hello there, dear reader. As Euro 2004 is upon us, I have decided that a football theme is in order this week.
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London QS launches bullish growth drive
Quantity surveyor Bruce Shaw London aims to double the size and turnover of its business within five years.
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Open mike: Read 'em and weep
As Jeff Howell's postbag shows, the people the government encouraged to buy their own homes in the 1980s were cut adrift with no idea what to do when they failed
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Practice made perfect
It's easy to mistake David Morley Architects' clear-glazed NHS walk-in centre for a shop front. And that's the intention. We walked in to check it out, and he didn't even need an appointment …
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Building in two dimensions
This year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy was themed – by David Hockney, no less – on drawing, a discipline in which architects excel. We discovered the delights of Gallery VII
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The guests are arriving
Isn’t the point of the European Union’s single market to increase the flows of goods, services, capital and labour, and thereby increase economic efficiency?
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The meddle detector
The Construction Act is coming under review but, while there are good arguments for some change, the scrutinisers should remember: if it ain't broke …
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We need some fog lights
Two years after Judge Seymour said you couldn't introduce new material once an adjudication had started, we're not much wiser about whether he was right
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A remembrance of things past
I very much doubt that I will be the first correct answer, but the building in your "In the detail" competition is Trellick Tower in Golborne Road London W10 – not to be confused with trendy Notting Hill – designed by Erno Goldfinger and constructed by Holland Hannon and Cubitts.It ...
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Against the system
I am greatly concerned by the increase in the "contributions" required from applicants for planning permission.
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Manufacturing opportunities
I am a second-year building surveying student, and an unusual one, in that I am aged 35, and from a manufacturing background.
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Adult affairs
Clarissa de Waal highlighted a number of points about adult training (Letters, 21 May, page 40) that the CITB is addressing.
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Held accountable
Your piece about the Scottish parliament (28 May, page 22) led with an inaccurate and speculative cost figure of £450m.