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Features
Changing track
Elaine Knutt reports on a new diploma that is luring frustrated graduates into construction …
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FeaturesThe £6.5bn men
Every year these 10 men greenlight more than 18,000 projects worth north of £6bn. Katie Puckett got them together to find out what impresses and depresses them about construction firms, and on pages 58-59 we list the top 100 clients in the UK
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FeaturesYes, prime minister?
Good morning world! You’ve just woken up as the most powerful person in Britain. No, not Jamie Oliver – the prime minister. Against all expectations, you’ve managed to win the premiership, despite fierce challenges from Tony Blair, Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy. You’ve even edged out Bobby Kilroy-Silk. So, what’s ...
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FeaturesSustainability costs
It is commonly assumed that going green will rack up the costs of a building project, but a unique study contradicts that view. In this cost model, Cyril Sweett details sustainable solutions for four building types indicating how improvements can be made at little or no extra cost
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Public sector work boosts first quarter output
The government’s investment in schools and hospitals provided a good start to the year for the construction industry
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Skanska reveals year-on-year fall in UK sales
The UK arm of Swedish contractor Skanska has revealed that its sales fell in the first quarter of 2005 compared with the same period last year.
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NewsMcCaffrey reveals WYG’s international growth plans
New chief operating officer sets out ambitious business targets in first interview since being promoted
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CommentOpen Mike: Read all about it
There’s a new book out on environmental liabilities, which eco-officials, imaginative activists and eagle-eyed lawyers cannot wait to throw at construction firms …
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NewsODPM told to demand mixed communities
The social housing sector is pressing the ODPM to force housebuilders to build mixed communities or waste the opportunity offered by the four housing growth areas
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NewsDanny Chalkley
A 50% affordable housing target is an unworkable, undemocratic and irrational policy
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CommentCDM: An audit
The Health and Safety Executive has just recommended changes to the CDM regulations. So the first question we should ask is: will they do any good?
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CommentDevoured by their house
This is how a simple house extension turned into a simple dispute, which turned into a bitter dispute, which turned into a very expensive legal case. And for what?
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Comment
Welcome to castle Bolkestein
The proposed European Union services directive, or Bolkestein’s monster, as it’s known, could produce a playing field with so many bumps that standards suffer
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Comment
Who’s suing whom
A round up of the writs at the Technology and Construction Court, including a row over a smart Chelsea pad, landlords in dispute with tenants and two attempts to enforce adjudicators’ awards
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Comment
Nowhere to go
As a designer who prepares schemes for several small developers in Sefton, Merseyside, I find it almost impossible to get applications for anything even considered.
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Comment
Wigs and muddy boots
Reading Tony Bingham’s article (22 April, page 58) regarding the quandary of a judge faced with the equally compelling opinions of two opposing experts, I was reminded of my very earliest lessons in arbitration.
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Comment
A very precise view
Motivated by wishing to balance your rather negative report on the London mayor’s draft supplementary planning guidance the London View Management Framework (22 April, page 16), I should like to point out that the approach is not generally protectionist but informative.