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  • Features

    Appointments

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    Movers and shakers

  • Across the Andes by milk float
    Comment

    Hansom

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    This week, advanced theoretical thinking from John Prescott, more dodginess from Comrade Foster and a Yes, Minister moment from Phil Hope

  • Phil Hope
    Features

    Talking balls with the minister

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    Phil Hope is charge of chivvying the industry into becoming energy efficient, sustainable and security conscious, while simultaneously championing IT and keeping the ODPM green. So a metaphor rather suggests itself, as we point out.

  • One small, skinny mollusc please
    Features

    Marks Barfield cafe: One small, skinny mollusc please

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    Marks Barfield’s latest scheme is an invertebrate cafe that has attached itself to Birmingham’s Bullring centre – where it is providing weary shoppers with a shell-like retreat

  • Comment

    Blind eyes and bloody kids

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    Contractors have to be on their guard against potential defects or dangers even though they aren’t covered in the contract – as these cases illustrate

  • Tackle it with Eezyjudge®
    Comment

    Tackle it with Eezyjudge®

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    Only 28 days to decide 276 final account quarrels on 17,000 pieces of paper? Don’t despair. Just apply a little of this 100%-proof, no-nonsense dispute decider

  • Comment

    No room for horse traders

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    Once upon a time, you could end a dispute with a global settlement and trot off to your insurer to ask for compensation. It is no longer that simple

  • Comment

    Garbage in, garbage out

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    Being armed to the teeth with a fancy computer program is all very well but, as a recent case illustrates, what matters is the quality of the data fed into it

  • Comment

    Calling all megalomaniacs

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    In your article “The greatest buildings never built” (22 October, page 42), you refer to Buckminster Fuller’s New York dome as a “megalomaniac plan”.

  • Comment

    Unite behind unitisation

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    Unitised curtain walling is by no means the new technology you think it is (22 October, page 76).

  • Comment

    Thatcher’s child

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    I read with great, but amused, interest your article on the stream of self-employment now beginning in the construction industry (8 October, page 114).

  • Comment

    Beyond Kyoto

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    Regardless of whether the nations of the world embrace the objectives of Kyoto (Tom Barker’s article, 8 October, page 31), the impeding energy crisis will not go away.

  • Comment

    Our lives in your hands

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    Designers seem to ignore their responsibilities under CDM regulations, in that they should be designing out risk wherever possible.

  • Comment

    A taste of union medicine

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    I was interested to read in your above article (22 October, page 10) that the TUC is stepping up pressure on the government to press ahead with its manifesto commitment to introduce corporate manslaughter legislation.

  • Comment

    Ode to Gaia

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    Ode to Gaia

  • Comment

    Piling on the agony

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    I read your piling special (15 October 2004, page 64) and found it lacking in up-to-date information in key areas.

  • The five towers hotel – only four of which can be seen at a time.
    Features

    Dealing with libya

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    The moment when Tony Blair shook hands with Muammar Gadaffi, bygones were officially bygones and an entire country was opened up for British firms to exploit. But what are the realities of doing business in Libya? We visited the former pariah state to find out

  • News

    Kajima UK boss Barker says sayonara after five years

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    UK director of Japanese contracting giant cites personal reasons – not £2m pre-tax losses – for stepping down

  • News

    Atkins plans move into Libyan market

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    Consultant Atkins is planning to open an office in Libya by next summer.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Let’s talk about sex

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    In these days of chronic skills shortages, any initiative to double construction’s pool of potential recruits is welcome.