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Way off
Although I’m a strong advocate of off-site manufacture (OSM), I have to take issue with your Offsite supplement (1 October). OSM will only succeed if it can match the design quality and cost effectiveness of traditional building. Few of the featured projects showed any of John Prescott’s ‘wow’ factor, and ...
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One-eyed jock
Lord Fraser’s report on Holyrood appears to me to be one-eyed, ignoring as it does the plight of the trade contractors involved. The building may well have cost its owners – the taxpayers – £431m but I surmise the cost to its builders, trade contractors and the professional team is ...
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On different tracks
I don’t claim to be an expert in construction project management, or indeed public transport, but to attempt to compare the state of the railways with construction, as Paul Morrell does (3 September, page 40), is surely wrong. Railways provide a service to the clients – the passengers – who ...
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Gone with the wind
The objections to on-shore wind farm schemes (24 September, page 70) are classic nimbyism. Would the objectors prefer a nuclear power station on the green fields? At least with wind farms, when they are removed you wouldn’t know they had even been there.
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FeaturesSpecialists: Piling
Our series on specialist markets continues, this time with analysis of the piling sector’s lead times and costs from Gary Bibby of Gardiner & Theobald. Plus, Robin Wood of Cementation Foundations Skanska talks about the latest trends in the piling market
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NewsMultiplex set to buy Chelsfiel
Quoted Australian company Multiplex is poised to become a key developer in Britain after agreeing this week to a £2.1bn takeover of property firm Chelsfield.
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Carillion off-loads French business for £10m
Carillion has made its last major disposal as part of its restructuring plan, with the sale of a French civil engineering and building business.
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FeaturesWhere next for Britain’s biggest architect?
Peter Drummond, the new chief of Building Design Partnership, is looking for another £35m of business …
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CommentGive us our money back
Colin Harding The government’s Pensions Bill is proof that it is waging a war against small employers. It is time to take our savings out of the Treasury’s hands
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FeaturesThe case of the dancing hotel
For a budget flophouse, the Cambridge Travelodge looked like a cool and classy piece of work. But then Gus Alexander found out what happened when the lights went down …
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FeaturesRichard Simmons
The new chief executive of CABE tells Mark Leftly why his last three projects ran into criticism, why Sir Stuart Lipton was right to resign – and why Jon Rouse is such an easy act to follow.
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FeaturesTerror and wonder
… was the creed of Nicholas Hawksmoor. With the restoration of Christ Church these emotions can be experienced first hand.
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CommentSeduced by simplicity
Last week Ashley Pigott used the Holyrood fiasco to take a pop at construction management – but easy targets don’t help us understand complex problems
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Competitive streak
James Foster Under pressure from the EU, the government has reclassified registered social landlords as public bodies. The ramifications for procurement are far-reaching
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CommentIsn’t it obvious?
You may not be entirely surprised to learn that when it comes to construction law the most obvious meaning of a word isn’t necessarily the right one. Context is all