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Six to fight it out for RIBA presidency
A RECORD six candidates submitted nominations for the presidency of the RIBA last Friday.
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NewsPier pressure
Work has begun on a 15,200 m2 pier at Heathrow Terminal 3. Designed by architect GMW, the pier will be over 280 m long and provides four gate lounges, separate departure and arrival corridors and a VIP lounge. Each gate lounge will have a seating capacity of 450 passengers. GMW ...
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NewsA Polish performance
Broadway Malyan has been appointed to provide full architectural design services for the Silver Screen cinema to be built at the Wola Park shopping centre in Warsaw. The cinema will provide six screens and 1100 seats, and is scheduled for completion in autumn 2004. The concept for Wola Park concentrates ...
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NHBC seeks judicial review of EU insurance directive
Home warranty provider set to fight proposed EU directive over fears of more costs and bureaucracy
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Birse sues Mott MacDonald for £3m over wall
BIRSE CIVILS has launched a £3.3m High Court legal battle against consultant engineer Mott MacDonald over a land reclamation scheme in Hull docks.
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NewsArup submits Battersea Power Station masterplan
Designs to transform 14.7 ha derelict site involve spending £1bn on hotels, parks, offices and a theatre
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NewsISG lops off facilities arm in bid for faster growth
Interior Services Group sells its barely profitable ISG Occupancy division to FM consultant Erinaceous for £10m
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NewsBroker's notes: Who's afraid of an AGM?
My image to the left, dear reader, is now distinctly out-of-date.
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FeaturesOliver Letwin
The donnish shadow chancellor may look most at home surrounded by dusty tomes, but he's all for rewriting the book when it comes to the civil service. He talks to us about modernisation, decentralisation and, er, oysters.
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FeaturesThe Lewisham job
They designed it so a gang of third graders could have pulled it off. It was fast, it was easy and the score was 30 mill. Only drawback was, it was a police station – but they had a plan for that, too … Gus 'The Hat' Alexander cases the ...
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Comment
Beware their clause
An innocent-seeming sentence in a contract can have potentially fatal repercussions on your liabilities – as the following example demonstrates
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Group therapy for adjudicators
Two Court of Appeal decisions have left adjudication suffering from a crisis of identity. At least it has a support network to see it through these difficult times
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Six letters that spell disaster
Here’s a case involving Arup and a power station in the Philippines – and it demonstrates the kind of damage one man can do in five seconds armed only with a biro
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FeaturesOn thin air
Welcome to the bumpy flight that is consultants' pay, where you can experience vertical take-off one moment and the next find yourself frantically trying to remember how you get the oxygen out of that mask thing. We report on the 2004 Building/Hays Montrose consultants' salary guide.
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Comment
What's in a name?
The defendant changed its trading name from "Alfred McAlpine" to just "McAlpine" as part of a re-branding exercise, which aimed to remove the old "muddy boots" image of the group and replace it with one that better suited its present emphasis upon capital projects, infrastructure services and business services.
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FeaturesTonight, at the forum …
… Herzog & de Meuron presents Barcelona's latest urban regeneration extravaganza, starring an eye-catching triangular auditorium at a gravity-defying angle. Sit back and enjoy the show
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March passed: The MoD becomes Britain's top client
£555m garrison makes ministry UK's biggest spender – and puts Sir Robert McAlpine top of contractors' table
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CommentOpen mike: Raised on voodoo
In our latest guest column, Paul Foot explains how the PFI has developed into a sinister force that can make buildings – and democratic accountability – mysteriously vanish