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The system doesn't work
How about the Construction Industry Training Board assisting existing NVQ students a bit more?
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Our hidden death toll
I feel that the Health and Safety Executive's latest statistics (16 April, page 14), which show that the number of site fatalities is decreasing slightly, needs to be put into context.
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Misdirected directives
Your article "NHBC seeks judicial review of European Union insurance directive" (7 May, page 15) suggests that the National House Building Council is not within the remit of the Financial Services Authority.
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It's a fair cap, Ann
Ann Minogue (8 April, page 49) chastises construction consultants for seeking to limit liability.
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TV trial was the only way
I read with interest your article on the public image of housebuilders and the grillings they receive on consumer programmes such as Watchdog (16 April, page 42).
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Hey, it was just a question …
Your news feature (16 April 2004), entitled "The government is evolving the ideal eco-friendly home for the 21st century.
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Terms of engagement
Only a lawyer would put an “offer and acceptance” in the same frame as adultery (Tony Bingham, 24 May, page 54). We in the industry have always known it’s about prostitution, and whether it’s legal is secondary …
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NewsBank faces vested interest claim over plans for Jarvis
Leading City sources have accused investment bank Close Brothers of a potential vested interest in its attempt to install a management team at the group.
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NewsOut of the ashes of 9/11
Support services group WSP has been appointed to work as a consultant on Freedom Tower, the replacement for the World Trade Centre in New York. Cantor Seinuk, WSP's high-rise structural engineering specialist, is working with architects Daniel Libeskind and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to flesh out their designs. Cantor ...
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UCATT spurns councils' three-year pay deal
The construction union UCATT has rejected a pay offer worth 7% over three years for local government building workers.
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NewsTheatre of the fantastic
Construction is due to start next month on a £7.3m extension to the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry designed by architect Stanton Williams. The work will improve the 1950s theatre by adding a 300-seater auditorium, rehearsal space and a foyer. A contractor is being chosen this week from a shortlist. The ...
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CZWG to design £10m casino for Bournemouth
Architect CZWG is to design a £10m casino in Bournemouth, Dorset, as part of a redevelopment in the town centre.
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Old Essex firm collapses, axing 200 jobs
Loweth, a 112-year-old Essex-based contractor, has been placed in administration. It is making 200 employees redundant.
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NewsCarey Jones' lock-up
The largest multistorey car park in Leeds was officially opened last month when Clarence Dock developers Crosby Group handed over control to operators Parking Partners. The seven-storey building, which can take up to 1650 vehicles, forms a part of the city's £200m Clarence Dock scheme next to the Royal Armouries ...
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NewsBig medicine
This is Skanska's design for the Royal London hospital project in Whitechapel, east London. It is one half of the mighty £1bn PFI deal to refurbish it and St Bartholemew's in the City. The Royal London will be Britain's biggest new hospital, and together the two will have 1248 beds, ...
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CABE holds back award
Architecture watchdog CABE has said that the entries for one of its premier housing design awards were not good enough to win the top accolade.
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NewsSun rises on Wuhan contest
GMW Architects is the only British architectural firm to be shortlisted in the competition for the £60m Terminal Two at Wuhan Tianhe Airport in China. The practice is collaborating with the China Aeronautical Project and Design Institute. Scheduled to open in 2007, the 100,000 m2 terminal building will handle more ...
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CommentOpen mike: Eve of destruction
Architect Owen Luder reckons his infamous Tricorn Centre was unjustly demolished without a fair trial; now we must stop his Get Carter car park suffering the same fate
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Getting into Harvard
The business press doesn't write about construction's management strategies, universities don't study them … Are they trying to tell us something?
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FeaturesMark Whitby's 31 buildings
Nick Hornby is not the only one who can write lists, you know. Inspired by Hornby's compilation 31 Songs, by the Sydney Opera House saga and by his lifelong passion for architecture, Mark Whitby, founder of Whitbybird, decided to let us in on his list of engineering masterpieces. Here's the ...