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NewsNetwork Rail calls for fresh designer at Alsop’s station
Alsop’s designs for Birmingham New Street face the axe – although Network Rail owns the intellectual rights.
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NewsCambridge architecture school may be reprieved
University arts and humanities school agrees to divert funding to threatened department until 2008.
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FeaturesThe Berlaymonster’s back!
Nearly five years late and three times over budget, the European commission’s headquarters is back in business. We took a trip to Brussels to admire the £509m refurbishment and find out what originally set the project spinning out of control – and for once, nobody is blaming the eurocrats …
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Features
Just the job
It began with avoiding PE lessons at school. Now Carmella Barbour is in charge of her own quarry …
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NewsMultiplex appoints UK managing director
Multiplex this week poached a senior director from the Wates Group as the firm pursued its policy of increasing its presence in the UK,
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Shares in ‘under pressure’ Mitie take 5.5p hit
Shares in Mitie dropped on Monday after it reported that its margins were “under pressure” from competition.
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NewsSharewatch: Less than festive
There was little to cheer about when the markets closed last week. Shares across most of the construction and building materials sector dropped, pushing the sector overall down 2% to 2924.
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Will draft bill wake firms up to corporate responsibility?
After Queen’s speech highlighted staff safety, survey shows corporate social responsibility rising up the agenda
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Comment
Everyone’s a winner
The Housing Corporation has been given the power to make grants to private housebuilders – but believe it or not, housing associations stand to gain from this as well
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Seven wonders of islamic design
From sandbags to soaring skyscrapers, this year’s Aga Khan Awards are a timely reminder of the diversity of architecture in the Muslim world
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Features
Falling water 2004
Welcome to the most startling house in Britain … where the front door is a lily pond, the bedrooms are beneath a river and the rooms are separated by waterfalls. Ken Shuttleworth takes us for a paddle around his design and shows us his original concept sketches
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CommentThe theory of black holes
he phrase ‘defined provisional sum’ in the JCT98 contracts may lead employers to believe that they have price certainty. In fact, they have nothing of the sort
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Comment
The prongs of doom
Time and again adjudications end in failure because the courts detect bias. Here’s another case where a botched job inevitably results in a load of wasted money
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Comment
Romania revamps its image
Romania aims to join the European Union in 2007 and is trying hard to attract foreign investment – but there are few large black bats still flapping around
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Comment
UK shares Europe’s guilt
As reported in Building (19 November, page 15), Alan Wood has exposed the unfair practices that European governments use to exclude British companies from their public sector contracts.
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Comment
A BTEC in boredom
Having enjoyed a reasonably successful career in construction and having a 16-year-old son with the prospect of 10 good GCSEs and no particular idea what he wants to do, I persuaded him to apply for a BTEC in construction.
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FeaturesThere now follows a special announcement..
.. regarding the sale of Bovis Lend Lease, presented by Adrian Chamberlain, chief executive officer for development and construction in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa …