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FeaturesNigel Griffiths
A skills crisis, worrying accident rates, controversial contracts in post-war Iraq and a promotional mission to Brazil: our minister has got a lot on his plate. In fact, if you're interested, he could probably pop round one evening and take you through it. Say next Thursday? We try to keep ...
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FeaturesAfter Mies
Rem Koolhaas' Chicago campus centre is both a homage to and a slap in the face for its former lecturer, one Mies van der Rohe. And some are finding that hard to swallow …
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Would you like some more money?
Not only are your labour-only subcontractors entitled to holiday pay, but if your arrangements for giving it to them are unclear, you could end up doling out twice
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Bye-bye, Bambi
The Be Collaborative contract is another adorable newborn legal fawn taking its first unsteady steps towards the combine harvester of the construction industry
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Who'll take on apprentices?
I'd like to respond to the news of a new training board (3 October, page 3).
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Fit for a comedy sketch
With reference to Roger Knowles' letter (10 October, page 36) and the rather tired debate over the RICS, may I point out that architects, engineers and solicitors all have their own specialisms yet remain quite content to practise under the generic banner of their profession.
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Show a bit of initiative
I was encouraged by the story "Clarke: Skills council will end need for foreign workers" (3 October, page 13).
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Do one job well
We have been watching several professional organisations agonise over agendas for change for some time now, among them the RICS and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
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Not so special
Your article "The Techmeisters" (26 September, page 74) was either written with tongue firmly in cheek or you fell under the spell of snake oil salesmen intent on cornering a market.
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Hearing you loud and clear
I read your news item about housebuilders being spared the need to test their houses for adequacy of sound resistance (29 August, page 13) and thought, what a shame.
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More to restore …
I recently watched Restoration on BBC2. Like many, I was both interested and depressed.
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FeaturesConfusion reigns
In the first of a monthly series of articles on urban regeneration, we look at the mess that the government has made of its part of the process, and suggests how it might start to clear it up.
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CommentHow can you say that?
The Treasury would have us believe that the PFI can do no wrong. But, as James Nesbit points out, its data makes genuine comparisons impossible
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CommentWonders & blunders
I am tempted to revel in the open spaces in and around the Tate Modern but walk by the Hayward shaking my head
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NewsAn egg for eggheads
Contractor Gleeson has erected the steelwork for this lecture theatre pod for the £12m Unity City Academy in Middlesbrough. Designed by Hickton Madeley & Partners, the egg-shaped structure sits on steel legs in the centre of an elliptical copper-clad building. It is due to be completed in March. The scheme ...
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NewsSoaring ambition
The Whittle Arch, named after one of Coventry's most celebrated sons, jet engine inventor Sir Frank Whittle, is the third phase of the refurbishment of the city centre. Designed by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard and engineer Whitbybird, the scheme is made up of two arches spanning 50 m and rising more ...
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Key players jostle for £50m Arsenal housing scheme
Laing O'Rourke, Carillion and Taylor Woodrow are lining up to secure a £50m housing contract as part of the Arsenal stadium development in north London.
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Shares fall after Tube trouble
Shares in the Metronet and Tube Lines consortiums fell on Monday after the weekend's derailments on the London Underground.
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CITB plans virtual training companies
The Construction Industry Training Board is in talks with the government to create "virtual training firms" that would give young people the chance to work on live construction projects.