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NewsDramatic entrance
Work has just begun on Allford Hall Monaghan Morris' design for a three-year scheme to improve entrances and foyers at the Barbican Arts Centre in London. The £12.5m project will create two easily visible entrances from Silk Street and Lakeside and improve internal navigation. The project team includes contractor Wallis ...
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CommentBe reasonable, Ann
A reader writes Stavry Onissiphorou of ACE picks a good-natured – and closely argued – fight with Ann Minogue over whether it’s fair for consultants to limit their liabilities
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Damage limitation
The claimant, a development company, issued proceedings for negligence against the defendant, their retained architectural consultants, as a result of water penetration into the rear basement structure of a number of houses in a terrace which the claimant was refurbishing for investment purposes. The defendant issued Part 20 proceedings against ...
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Standing ground
Despite security panics and mass evacuations over kidnappings and murders of foreign nationals, UK firms working in Iraq are going nowhere. The construction contracts may be juicy, but is this too big a risk to take?
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FeaturesUrban flagship
Curvaceous and clad in steel, Building Design Partnership's Armada development is the wildly successful centrepiece of a windswept Dutch city's regeneration.
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NewsBarratt blazes a trail in US brownfield regeneration
UK housebuilder wants half of its Californian operations to be in urban renewal sector by 2009
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FeaturesAce venturer
Four months in and Nelson Ogunshakin, the Association of Consulting Engineers' new chief executive, is steering his ship into unchartered waters. He tells Kate Allen why his plans simply can't fail.
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CommentLeave the act alone
The plan, announced in the Budget, to set up the CIPER forum is deeply troubling. It will be a kind of secret society, and it will want to change the Construction Act
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Reality check
The Court of Appeal has just added two heaped spoonfuls of common sense to the rules on what adjudicators can do without breaching natural justice
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NewsGovernment plans £3000 surcharge on Gateway homes
Stringent energy requirements and compulsory pressure testing set to be imposed on houses in growth areas
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FeaturesWhen the battle's lost and won
For weeks, clan McAlpine has been locked in a High Court battle over possession of the family name. Last Wednesday the drama reached its denouement. We report on what happened
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FeaturesBe afraid (but not very afraid)
The scarily tough and complex demands of the new Part L have left many contractors confused and anxious. But difficulties enforcing the energy-efficiency regulation suggest that its bark may be a lot worse than its bite.
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NewsLaing O'Rourke makes growth league
Contractor Laing O'Rourke has been named one of the UK's fastest-growing firms for the third time in five years
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Reshuffle at Foster in wake of Shuttleworth departure
Architect creates flexible six-division structure, with senior partners becoming less involved in specific projects
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RICS predicts office market upturn
London's stalled commercial construction market, is likely to get back into gear this year, according to the RICS.
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Decision day looms for £1bn PFI hospital
The government is due to decide next week whether to press ahead with a £1bn PFI hospital in Paddington, west London
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NewsGrimshaw may be ousted at former stock exchange
Market sources suggest that developer Hammerson may drop architect after buying site last week for £67m
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NewsAlfred McAlpine ponders appeal
Alfred McAlpine has been granted leave to appeal against an injunction obtained by Sir Robert McAlpine that stopped it from shortening its name to "McAlpine"
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Brooke hits campaign trail to win over RICS rebels
President hopes that charm offensive in 24 towns and cities will turn the tide of criticism of the institution