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FeaturesHealthcare buildings
This week, Specifier focuses on the burgeoning healthcare sector, beginning with a look at how two consultants are using visualisation software to find cost-effective solutions for hospital design
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How to juggle while balancing
Three female construction professionals reflect on the trials, tribulations, rewards and pitfalls of flexible working arrangements
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CommentThe dismal profession
How has architecture come to be such a regulated, disciplined, controlled and artistically emasculated business? And what can be done to save it?
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Experts predict sharp drop in growth in 2005
Government spending to grow ahead of expected May election, but house and energy prices cause concern
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NewsTravis Perkins to buy DIY group Wickes for £950m …
Builders merchant sector set for period of consolidation as Travis Perkins increases market share to 10%
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FeaturesCutter’s way
John Oughton, the mandarin in charge of government procurement, is determined to slash the time and money spent on the bidding process. But can he overcome a creaky civil service and an overstretched construction industry?
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CommentCome closer, my dears …
Want to know the future? Then cross our very own legal astrologer’s palm with silver as he gazes into his crystal ball and makes his predictions for 2005
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Interview: Rupert Jackson
Just three months into the job, the judge in charge of the Technology and Construction Court has already established a reformist agenda.
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CommentSome relationship advice
Dear Tony, I have been seeing a contractor for some time now, and although he says he loves me, he will not commit to a serious relationship. What should I do?
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Comment
Playing by the same rules
I read with interest the article on the Glendoe hydroelectric power project in Scotland (3 December, page 10).
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Comment
All in the forecast
Further to Malcolm Taylor’s letter (10 December, page 29), it may well be puzzling that the services element of a building does not receive the same level of prescriptive design as the architectural elements.
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Comment
Mr BTEC responds
As a course director (“Mr BTEC”) at the College of West Anglia in Norfolk, I would like to reassure readers that Della Madgwick’s unfortunate experience, recounted in her letter of 3 December, need not be universal.
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Comment
The price of CSCS
I read with amazement that the CSCS scheme is £5m in the red (3 December, page 9).
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Comment
Jack’s blunder
Jack Pringle’s comments (3 December, page 34) demonstrate how out of touch with reality the RIBA remains in 2004, with its obsession for style before function.
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Perfect 10 (well, almost)
I was interested to read Rudi Klein’s recent article about the benefits of single project insurance to the construction industry (26 November, page 51).
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Get ’em young
Andrew Williams’ article “The QS’ apprentice” (19 November, page 33) raises some interesting issues about how we train future practitioners, and will no doubt provoke much debate.
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Comment
The name’s Bond … retention bond
A number of British Constructional Steelwork Association members may choose to give bonds in place of accepting cash retention (26 November, page 63), but I hope you don’t think I’m being too pedantic if I remind you that this is no longer a BCSA matter but one for individual companies.