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Ferguson makes a modest proposal
RIBA president George Ferguson has laid into bad architecture, saying he would like to create a demolition "X-List" of badly designed buildings.
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Rail union calls off strike after jobs promise
RMT union members at rail maintenance firm Jarvis have called off plans to strike after settling a dispute over the transfer of staff to Network Rail.
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Profit leaps 125% at Tulloch
The pre-tax profit of Inverness contractor Tulloch has increased 125% to £5.4m for the year ending 31 December 2003 from £2.4m the previous year.
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Mott and May make hay in Norfolk council deal
Consultant Mott MacDonald and services firm May Gurney have been selected by Norfolk council as part of a £400m partnership to deliver planning and transportation.
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Fall in death toll offers 'no reassurance'
The number of deaths from site accident has fallen in the past year from 76 to 72, according to the latest Health and Safety Executive figures.
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News72 weeks later …
M&E contractor Emcor Drake & Scull has completed work on 30 Gresham Street in the heart of the City of London. The development spans a two-storey glazed entrance lobby, 10 office floors, two of which have been designed to accommodate trading floors, and a roof terrace. Contracted to Sir Robert ...
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NewsDramatic entrance
Work has just begun on Allford Hall Monaghan Morris' design for a three-year scheme to improve entrances and foyers at the Barbican Arts Centre in London. The £12.5m project will create two easily visible entrances from Silk Street and Lakeside and improve internal navigation. The project team includes contractor Wallis ...
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CommentBe reasonable, Ann
A reader writes Stavry Onissiphorou of ACE picks a good-natured – and closely argued – fight with Ann Minogue over whether it’s fair for consultants to limit their liabilities
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Damage limitation
The claimant, a development company, issued proceedings for negligence against the defendant, their retained architectural consultants, as a result of water penetration into the rear basement structure of a number of houses in a terrace which the claimant was refurbishing for investment purposes. The defendant issued Part 20 proceedings against ...
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Standing ground
Despite security panics and mass evacuations over kidnappings and murders of foreign nationals, UK firms working in Iraq are going nowhere. The construction contracts may be juicy, but is this too big a risk to take?
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FeaturesUrban flagship
Curvaceous and clad in steel, Building Design Partnership's Armada development is the wildly successful centrepiece of a windswept Dutch city's regeneration.
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NewsBarratt blazes a trail in US brownfield regeneration
UK housebuilder wants half of its Californian operations to be in urban renewal sector by 2009
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FeaturesAce venturer
Four months in and Nelson Ogunshakin, the Association of Consulting Engineers' new chief executive, is steering his ship into unchartered waters. He tells Kate Allen why his plans simply can't fail.
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CommentLeave the act alone
The plan, announced in the Budget, to set up the CIPER forum is deeply troubling. It will be a kind of secret society, and it will want to change the Construction Act
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Reality check
The Court of Appeal has just added two heaped spoonfuls of common sense to the rules on what adjudicators can do without breaching natural justice
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NewsGovernment plans £3000 surcharge on Gateway homes
Stringent energy requirements and compulsory pressure testing set to be imposed on houses in growth areas
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FeaturesWhen the battle's lost and won
For weeks, clan McAlpine has been locked in a High Court battle over possession of the family name. Last Wednesday the drama reached its denouement. We report on what happened
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FeaturesBe afraid (but not very afraid)
The scarily tough and complex demands of the new Part L have left many contractors confused and anxious. But difficulties enforcing the energy-efficiency regulation suggest that its bark may be a lot worse than its bite.
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NewsLaing O'Rourke makes growth league
Contractor Laing O'Rourke has been named one of the UK's fastest-growing firms for the third time in five years