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Electricians at Terminal 5 agree £50,000 pay deal
Electrical workers on Heathrow scheme finally strike a deal comparable to skilled building workers' agreement
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Strategic forum sets out six-point plan for industry
Strategic Forum chairman Peter Rogers has set out a six-point plan to improve the UK construction industry.
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NewsFancy a ziggurat?
Here are some present ideas for the architecture buffs in your life: everything from bendy, trendy biomorphics to the monuments of ancient Mesopotamia.
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Minority report
We examine the implications of new laws introduced to tackle religious and sexual discrimination in the workplace
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FeaturesCost model: PFI hospitals
Capital investment is pouring into the NHS and the prognosis for improved performance is good. In this month’s cost model examine the aims of the hospital programme, probe design issues, and break down the price of adding a trauma unit to an existing hospital
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NewsBroker's notes: What the Sex Pistols can teach us
"I yam an antichrist! I yam an anarchist!" I'm not really either, of course.
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Crack house crackdown
Didn't think the Queen's Speech was radical enough? Get a load of John Prescott's housing bill – it aims to tackle many of the more egregious abuses
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FeaturesMission: impossible
Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Take apart an entire British Army town in Kosovo and put it up again in war-torn Basra, Iraq, in time for new year. Sounds tough? We report on who was up to the task without self-destructing …
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Viva Bambi!
Nick Henchie's claim that the Be Collaborative contract offers little in the way of practical assistance is given short shrift by one of the contract's writers
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FeaturesTo the bastion
Francisco Mangado's concert hall in Pamplona has received rapturous applause from the locals … well, all except the odd terrorist. We take a peek into a peculiar tale
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Et tu, Simon?
You'd think a construction lawyer embarking on his own building work would draw on his experience to ensure that he didn't end up at a well-known creek. Well …
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Rolfe Judd plans £250m Cambridge revamp
Architect Rolfe Judd is working on a giant masterplan to redevelop 12 ha around Cambridge railway station at a cost of more than £250m.
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NewsQueen of kiosks
Italian architects Riccardo Bianchini and Federica Lusiardi have fought off 211 entries to win a RIBA competition to design a structure for Cleopatra's Kiosk on the north bank of the Thames in London. The other two designs on the shortlist were by Bath-based practice Rees Smyth Vermont and Aberdeen-based ...
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NewsComing in to land
Reid Architecture has unveiled the first images of a landmark air traffic control tower at Edinburgh Airport for BAA Scottish Airports. The 57 m high tower is to be located on a main access road and will have a car-free zone around it to safeguard against potential terrorist bomb blasts. ...
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Rail work is the fast track to growth
Half of the fastest growing construction firms in the UK are rail contractors, according to The Sunday Times.
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Back from the dead
Just when it appeared to be gently ebbing away, construction's strategic forum has sprung back to life.
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Multiplex and Ferrovial in £250m PFI bid
Two foreign contractors have made the shortlist for a £250m PFI hospital project in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
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McAslan enters Africa with Morocco museum
Architect John McAslan + Partners has expanded into North Africa with the design of a multicultural centre and an archaeological museum in Morocco.
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£30,000 fine for site death
A property developer has had to pay out a total of £40,000 after a fireball on site left a worker with horrific burns from which he later died.