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    An alternative 2033 vision

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Congratulations on reaching your 160th birthday and on the excellent supplement. Your visions of the future are both entertaining and challenging – but one thing grated on me.

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    Checklist

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Specifying cladding and curtain walling means considering different materials and installation methods. Richard Teale of NBS helps out

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    Protect us from cowboys

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    I refer to "They Just Don't Listen" (20 June, page 56).

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    The price of success

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    I couldn't agree more with the column by John Smith (27 June, page 34).

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    Glazed and confused

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Terracotta glazing is enjoying a revival. It was used extensively at the beginning of the last century, and is proving popular at the start of the 21st. Specifying it is not always straightforward, though, as architect Kohn Pederson Fox found out when it tried to recreate an 80-year-old mottled glaze ...

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    Know your data

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    What does your record say about you? Michael Archer of solicitor Beale & Company explains your rights of access to information held by your employer

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    Lifetime costs: renders

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    With so many render options out there, how do you choose the one you need? Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group examines the key issues and outlines the whole-life costs of three alternatives

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    Hansom

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    This week we unmask imposters in parliament, splutter in horror at our pubs, sample engineering with cheese and examine the contemporary nude

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    Tiles of the unexpected

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Or how a Kohn Pederson Fox architect with a burning obsession went on the trail of gleaming ceramic facade tiles, and uncovered their secrets with the help of a mysterious, code-cracking stranger … Alex Smith followed the story

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    Show me

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    A life of global jet-setting, big money, luxury hotels, sunshine, honey dew and the milk of paradise awaits the right people in the right place. Allow our representative to introduce you to where those might be, by way of the 2003 Hays Montrose/Building international salary guide …

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    Products

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    In our cladding special, a bay apartment block is protected from the elements and a crèche wall is protected from flying toys – plus how to (safely) soften facades with planting

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    The rules

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    In several important areas, the new European standards for curtain walling differ from existing UK standards, says Stephen Ledbetter of CWCT

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    Empire building

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre Architects took a rundown 1960s tower and gave its graceful curves a slick makeover, capped off with a revolving restaurant for a touch of Bond-like glamour

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    When a spade's not a spade

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    If a subcontractor delays your project, you may argue that they were 'nominated' rather than 'domestic'. Forget labels – it's the way they were appointed that counts

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    Do unto others …

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    If an adjudication doesn't go the claimant's way, he may decide to cry foul play. But he'd better make sure his own tactics are fair before he does

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    Prime time

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    The MoD's £1bn accommodation programme will create 45,000 bed spaces over the next 10 years. We look at the procurement of a key scheme, and finds out how technical fixes can make all the difference

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    Workshop

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    This week we have warning signs that let you know when they're not working, some ultra-intelligent bathroom kit, an equally brainy central heating pump, a scaffolding system and a loading bay

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    Sweet home, Chicago

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Cartwright Pickard Architects has capitalised on the success of its Murray Grove social housing in London and its Sixth Avenue Apartments in York to export its expertise in off-site construction to the USA. The practice has been selected to work with a Chicago developer on a modular flats to be ...

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    Balfour denies Hatfield charge

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Balfour Beatty has hit back over a charge of involuntary manslaughter for the Hatfield rail disaster of 17 October 2000.

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    Fledgling minister sings from a Brownian hymn book

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    It's easy to see why one Fleet Street diarist described Nigel Griffiths as a "pocket Gordon Brown".