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Features
Steve Feery
Why break into the PFI market? It's too expensive and too risky – just stick to what you know
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FeaturesThe leveller
Julie Mellor, chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission, has construction's lousy record of recruiting women in her sights. But she's not out to give the industry a bashing: she has more subtle ways of making it see sense
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FeaturesRichard Rogers' Japanese school: Dream school
An elegant open-plan school beneath a sawtooth roof has been built in a Japanese village to designs by Richard Rogers Partnership
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Comment
Nil desperandum
As you know, it's a fat lot of use being right if you can't prove that you are. But are you completely sunk if you didn't keep 'contemporary records'?
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News
Six vie for £50m Edinburgh research centre
Edinburgh University has drawn up a shortlist of six architects to design a £50m research facility on the campus
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NewsDining in splendour
Norwich Cathedral has a new refectory designed by Hopkins Architects (formerly Michael Hopkins & Partners) built on the site of the medieval original. The building was topped out last week by local contractor RG Carter. The roof, which is covered in cast lead, is supported on oak columns, each with ...
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Movers and makers
Building products multinational Knauf has announced it intends to spend £20m on new drywall manufacturing facilities in the UK. The company said it was optimistic about the UK market, which is one of the largest drywall markets in Europe, and it anticipated increasing demand for plasterboard products as the industry ...
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ODPM cracks down on airtightness testing
The government has instructed building control authorities to clamp down on buildings that leak too much air through walls and roofs because of poor construction
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Modernist Gwynne dies aged 90
Patrick Gwynne, a pioneer of modernist architecture, has died aged 90
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NewsMersey treat
Architect Glas has won planning permission for its first job in Liverpool. The Peterhouse project, on Tithebarn Street, is part of the council's drive to regenerate the city centre through the provision of affordable and private residential units. The scheme involves the conversion of a post-war office block into apartments, ...
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S&P to design £40m worth of shops in Dutch stadium
Architect S&P has been appointed by Dutch football team AZ Alkmaar to design the retail and leisure element of a £80m mixed-use leisure arena in Alkmaar, in north-west Holland
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Redrow reloads £400m Matrix
Redrow Commercial Developments and Barratt Commercial have completed the first phase of their £400m joint-venture at Buckshaw Village near Manchester
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NewsRing of sapphire
A model of architect Will Alsop's vision for Barnsley, in Yorkshire, will be on display at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, which opens on Monday, 2 June. Measuring 3 × 4 m, the model is designed to provoke discussion about development policy over the next 30 years. The display is ...
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Highways Agency faces writ for 'unfair' road deal
Roads contractor AWG Highway Maintenance and consultant Capita DBS have issued a high court writ against the Highways Agency for unfair discrimination in the awarding of a £130m PFI road maintenance contract in Kent
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EU gives Amey sale the nod
The £81m acquisition of beleaguered support services group Amey by Spanish construction giant Ferrovial has been approved by the European Union, although the deal is still not complete
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Comment
Enough to make you sick?
The story of the £87m Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle should be triggering sirens and blue flashing lights at the Department of Health, Number 10 and the Treasury
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CommentLikely story
A naughty defendant forged his client's signature on a contract and tried a cash-in-hand tax scam. Unusually, it was the balance of probabilities that caught him