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Architects' fees increase 11% in 2003
Architects' fees are expected to have increased 11% this year, according to research by economic consultant Market & Business Development.
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Granting a sultan's wish
Architects are capable of anything – as long as they're given unlimited funds, resources and co-operation, and have no competition. Ah, them were the days …
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Welcoming our guest workers
David Blunkett's imperious asylum policy – outlined in the Queen's Speech – may have profound implications for construction.
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Flights of fancy
I was astounded by the impracticality of the proposed revamp of terraced houses by Shed KM featured in your article "Sex in Coronation Street" (7 November, pages 48-50).
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Utopia – we're almost there
I enjoyed reading the "Not the Egan Review" (24 October, pages 42-49), which could go a long way to creating Utopia in the industry.
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To be remote, be intimate
In relation to your article "Good Morning, Vietnam" (5 September, pages 38-41), I would like to point out that many outsource companies are trying to produce information without knowledge or experience of the UK.
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Not in my name
I was less than impressed with your wild editing of my letter to make a politically correct point (7 November, page 35).
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Full marks for construction training
As a student at Loughborough University studying construction engineering management, I would like to comment on the article about construction students by Kate Allen (14 November, pages 44-47).
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Private space vs open plan
Paul Morrell ("Are you being served?", 17 October, page 41) commented that we ought to know how much well designed offices aid productivity.
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Broken homes
I wonder if the government is aware of the upheaval its new Home Condition Report for surveyors might generate.
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Sound and fury
I got the impression from your article "When walls have ears" (5 September, pages 56-57) that the industry was suggesting a radical new approach, but a method of robust standard details has been working successfully in Scotland for years under the term "deemed to satisfy".
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Legalised coupling
As we became a limited liability partnership in 2001 – admittedly one of the first – we were puzzled by James Bessey's claim (7 November) that LLPs became legal only in April 2003.
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NewsRogers' flight of fancy
BAA has unveiled this Richard Rogers Partnership design for a £50m control tower at Heathrow. At 87 m, it will be twice as high as the one it will replace. Arup is structural engineer, Amec is M&E contractor, Laing O'Rourke is handling the foundations, Mace is construction manager and Warings ...
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GMB starts property sell-off to cut debts
The heavily indebted GMB union is in talks over the sale of its headquarters in Wimbledon, south-west London, as part of a wider property review
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Home office labour agency
Training Board report shows that it was still failing to hit recruitment levels for ethnic workers.
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Prescott gives go-ahead to animal lab
Deputy prime minister John Prescott last week granted planning permission for a vivisection laboratory in Cambridge, overruling advice from an inspector.
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Steamy scene
This is the first phase of an office conversion at the Round Foundry at Holbeck, Leeds, a grade II-listed building. When the scheme is completed it will provide 1000 m2 of space for tenant SMC Gower Architects. The work has been carried out by Building Design Partnership. The Round Foundry ...