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C'mon Rudi
Two points arising from Rudi Klein's wishlist ("C'mon everybody", 23 January, page 49).
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A Cambridge correction
With regard to your news story on page 13 of your 30 January issue, "Sir Robert McAlpine in row over £21m Cambridge Lab", there was an adjudication in early 2003 between the University of Cambridge and Sir Robert McAlpine relating to delays to the project, which was settled at the ...
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Riddles and fiddles
You may not be able to find a T5 worker who made £55,000, or explain where Dennis Lenard's 300,000 workers are hiding, but you can get a dodgy CSCS card tomorrow
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NewsDesigner diplomacy
Rem Koolhaas' practice, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, has opened its Dutch Embassy in Berlin. Located on the Rolandufer in the former east Berlin, the structure is an expression of Dutch "openness": one continuous promenade meanders through the eight-level building, a single space excavated out of a cube of generic ...
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Scots parliament inquiry told of meeting with Bovis boss
Former Bovis Lend Lease boss John Anderson met Scottish Office chief architect just weeks before Bovis was awarded the construction management role on the Scottish parliament, it emerged at the Fraser inquiry this week.
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Prescott to spend £155m on North
John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, this week unveiled proposals to spend £155m on improving the quality of life on the Tyne and the Mersey.
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Need more workers? Give us more work
The construction Confederation has called on the government to maintain its present level of capital spending on construction despite the sector's labour shortages.
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NewsDrug-inspired architecture
The £3.6m Institute of Pharmaceutical Innovation at the University of Bradford has been opened by Lord Sainsbury. The research faculty, which was designed by Yorkshire architect Rance Booth & Smith, is arranged in two linear wings joined by an atrium.
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Six vie for Milton Keynes millennium village
Six top housebuilders have been shortlisted to build the 1850 homes that will make up the Millennium Community project at Oak Grove, Milton Keynes.
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NewsWe love you
Building Design Partnership has become the darling of the Dutch public with its Armada residential development s'Hertogenbosch. It was voted by the Dutch public as the most loved building erected in the Netherlands in the past three years. The £30m scheme fits 255 apartments into five pairs of buildings overlooking ...
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NewsTerminal 5 hotel ready for take-off
BAA Lynton, the commercial property division of BAA, this week launched its Terminal 5 hotel at London Heathrow. The 600-bedroom hotel is the only one to be built as part of the development.It will be the second hotel at the airport to have a physical link to a terminal building.The ...
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In my opinion
The decision by the RICS governing counsel to reject a properly submitted requisition from 901 members for an extraordinary general meeting moving a motion of no confidence in five senior executives was in many ways as ill-considered as it was predictable.
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FeaturesHere’s the pitch
Sport England’s standardised design is starting a Mexican wave of achievable, accessible halls that don’t look like tin boxes. We report from the touchline at Dagenham.
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FeaturesOur homes in Havana
A UK architect is bringing prefab housing to Cuba in the hope that it will eliminate poor quality homes, delays and light-fingered builders. With government backing, residents of old Havana could soon be moving to new homes, leaving their grand colonial buildings for the tourists.
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How late is too late?
Missing a deadline in a contract can have dire consequences, but you may not be surprised to learn that in construction some deadlines are stricter than others
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By fair means or foul
The latest Housing Forum survey show that some of the UK’s most profitable housebuilders offer the least satisfaction to their customers. But do these Manchester Utds of the industry even care – and what can be done to get them to raise their game?
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Going places
This quarter we look at how regeneration cash has sparked crossover careers between the private and public sectors