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NewsSuicide cult targets lonely workers at Heathrow T5
Members of the Church of Euthanasia sell bleak message to vulnerable workers living away from home.
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RICS warns of heat damage
The RICS has warned homeowners to look out for cracks in properties caused by the heat wave.
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Berkeley issues £1.3m writ over Gosport sea wall
Housebuilder Berkeley Homes is suing civil engineer Leslie Wilks Associates for £1.3m in a row over its Gosport Marina project in Hampshire.
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Multiplex storms up contractors league tables
Australian contractor's White City retail project propels it to top spot for July and second place in yearly chart.
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Just the job
We talk to entrepreneur Mark Elliott about setting up his own project management firm
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Our life in your hands
The Construction Industry Training Board must be doing a good job – because if it wasn't, it wouldn't exist. Here's how it works …
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FeaturesCapsule hotels: Hotels in a nutshell
The man that got us eating raw fish off a conveyor belt is trying to sell us a night in a prefab sardine tin. But how will Europeans cope with Japanese-style capsule hotels?
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Be logical
Surely it's unfair for an adjudicator to refuse to decide which of two contracts governs a project but then to go on and value the claim without reference to either
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CommentNot in our name
A reader writes … Jeremy Hackett explains why the RICS needs to forget its grandiose plans for world domination and concentrate on responding to the wishes of its members
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FeaturesThe best possible taste
Fancy a home in Dubai built in the Arab eclectic style on a man-made island shaped like a palm tree? For a mere £500,000? Well, the Beckhams do – and we know what connoisseurs they are …
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Duke sued over 300 mm 'trespass'
A company owned by the Duke of Westminster is at the centre of a High Court dispute over a 300 mm strip of land at a central London office redevelopment
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NewsLife’s a beach
This £100m residential project is under way at Carlyon Bay, in Cornwall. The 500 glass-fronted holiday homes and leisure and retail facilities together make up the largest privately funded development in the county. The developer is the Ampersand Group and the design is by Evans & Shalev, the practice behind ...
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Spending watchdog targets London Underground PPP
Parliamentary watchdog the National Audit Office is due to publish a report on the London Underground public–private partnership early next year.
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Dutch parachute into Barking
Dutch architect Maxwan has been appointed to draw up a masterplan to salvage a regeneration project at Barking Reach in Dagenham, east London
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Cedric Price, architect and thinker, dies at 70
Cedric Price, one of Britain's most provocative and inspirational architectural thinkers of the past half century, has died aged 70.
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NewsTrawling for teenagers
The Construction Industry Training Board this week launched its latest advertising campaign to encourage school leavers and graduates to consider a career in construction. Advertisements appeared in magazines such as Loaded, FHM, Match, The New Musical Express, Bliss and Smash Hits. Most of them are revised versions of the designs ...
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NewsDublin's even fairer city
A £50m extension to Dublin airport is out to tender. Designed by the London office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it is the first European airport project by the US architect. An elevated, covered walkway will connect the extension to the terminal and sweep in a wide arc around the ...