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The tyranny of taste
The dead hand of totalitarian modernism should be prised from the shoulders of living architects: it was no more than a style among many others
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Arsenal goes large
Royal Arsenal, WoolwichBerkeley Homes this week submitted its largest ever planning application, for the next phase of the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, south-east London. The proposal, submitted jointly with the London Development Agency, confirms the shift by the Berkeley Group to urban regeneration. The plan would provide 3000 homes and ...
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CITB urges Home Office to fund migrant worker scheme
Training body plans ‘integration package’ to give foreign workers language and health and safety skills
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Half of buyers think new homes are poor quality
More than half of house buyers believe the quality of workmanship and materials of new-build homes is inadequate. The finding emerged in a survey of the attitudes of almost a thousand homebuyers, published this week. The survey shows that prospective buyers want more information from housebuilders. Almost 90% of people ...
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Business and pleasure
Stonebridge ParkThe Liverpool Land Development Company has been given permission to build an environment-friendly business centre in Stonebridge Park in the Gilmoss area of Liverpool. The 29 ha park will also provide the community with cycling and fishing amenities. The project will be managed by Cass Associates with St Modwen ...
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Experts dismiss report into Paris airport disaster
French government blames concrete deterioration – but structural engineers point to a design oversight
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Counting all the costs
In the issue of 16 July, your leader referred to “consistently reduced construction costs”, and Alistair McAlpine commented that “a cheap price and a silver tongue” were generally accepted as “an alternative to expertise”.
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A binding non-binding decision
Tim Elliott (16 July, page 51) applauds the decision of His Honour Judge Thornton in William Verry Ltd vs North West London Communal Mikrah.
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Neanderthal Man alive and well
I was rather surprised to read your comment “Neanderthal Man no longer roams the sites of the land, terrorising small contractors with the assistance of fine legal minds” (16 July, page 3). My job for the past 10 years has been to defend my employer (a subcontractor) against precisely that. ...
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A reader writes: The facts of death
After our interview with the family of Patrick O’Sullivan, who was killed on the Wembley site, a reader gives us his experience of a fatality during a concrete pour
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BAA drops Davis Langdon and Cyril Sweett
Airport client puts faith in EC Harris, Turner & Townsend and Doig & Smith after support services review
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Midas aims to quadruple turnover to £600m
Bristol contractor Midas Group has said it aims to quadruple turnover to £600m by 2010.
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T&T set to join rush to become LLP
QS and project manager Turner & Townsend is poised to become a limit liability partnership in the next year
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Wonders & blunders
Tony Bingham is left aesthetically stranded by the RAC control centre on the M6, but the Bilbao Guggenheim comes to the rescue
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McCarthy turned down chair of Churchill
John McCarthy, co-founder of McCarthy & Stone, declined the chance to chair Churchill Retirement Living, a niche housebuilding firm run by his two sons. McCarthy joined the company as a non-executive director at the start of the month but his son Spencer wanted him to be more involved and offered ...
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FeaturesWhat makes Ray run?
Out of all the hundreds of thousands of labourers in the industry, a few thousand take degrees. Out of them, a few hundred start a business. But only one has turned that business into a global power in his own lifetime: Ray O’Rourke. We spent three years chasing him to ...
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FeaturesTake a break
A recent survey shows that many construction managers think it will help their careers to skip holidays. Andy Pearson reveals why they are very much mistaken
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Conspiracy uncovered
Dominic Helps If you’re in any doubt about what constitutes collusive tendering, the Office of Fair Trading has just published a decision that makes it absolutely clear
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It’s a long, long road
Tony Bingham Those canny Irish have put their £4bn roadbuilding programme on hold until they see what happens to the English experiment with design-and-build