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FeaturesMiranda's way
No doubt you think Miranda Seymour-Smith's a bit quixotic. After all, she wants to get women onto site by banning wet T-shirt jokes. On the other hand, the Queen asks to come to her dos and Peter Rogers is her biggest fan. Still so sure?
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Cyanamid revisited
You will no doubt be familiar with the high-profile punch-up over the Bath Spa project; what you may not know is that it has interesting legal implications …
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Redrow calls for action on local authority housing bans
Housebuilder argues that moratoriums on new build in northern England are based on false premises
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FeaturesDream over
For five years, the Peabody Trust has been the standard bearer of progressive housing in Britain, producing ideal homes such as the BedZED development pictured. Now that it has been forced to cut staff and move away from development, are prefabrication and sustainability lost causes?
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Housebuilders face shock land tax in Budget
Whitehall hints that Brown may impose levy on increase in land value triggered by planning permission
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CommentA misjudgment
The parties in Tally Wiejl vs Pegram became utterly confused by the problem of which contract was in place. Now this question has foxed the Court of Appeal, too
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Bovis Homes: Inflation to halve
Bovis Homes chief executive Malcolm Harris has warned that house price inflation will more than halve this year
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NewsGrice: 'We expected the McAlpines would be upset'
Chief executive of contractor admits in court that he expected rebranding would lead to rift
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NewsWSP's £5.6m profit turns fortunes around
Support services group WSP has declared that it has turned around its business after a disastrous 2002.
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NewsPeabody boss denies development crisis
Housing association the Peabody Trust has hit back at rumours that it is winding down its development activities
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NewsTen thousand prefab houses are needed in Bam after earthquake that killed 40,000
Ali Manafpour, of engineer Halcrow, draws up a report that shows Iran paid a high price in death and injuries for failure to check that houses were built properly
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HTA triumphant after Chinese new town victory
Architect gets foothold in Far East after winning competition to create 90 ha urban centre near city of Suzhou
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Contractors pay price
Contractors Carillion, Balfour Beatty and Interserve have all increased the amount of money they contribute to their staff pensions.
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More woes at Mowlem
Contractor Mowlem has lost a court battle over a swimming pool in East Lothian, just weeks after its appeal over the Bath Spa project was rejected
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Design codes key to success
The government is to use "design codes" to help smooth the passage of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill through parliament.
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FeaturesHousing Futures 2024
Our serialisation of Housing Futures 2024, the collection of CABE/RIBA papers on the prospects for British housing, continues with John Callcutt's seven rules of regeneration and Christine Whitehead's three economic scenarios.
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FeaturesImperial history
Photographer Julian Anderson spent three years documenting the building of Foster and Partners' sleek Tanaka Business School at Imperial College London. Here's a selection of his pictures.
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CommentDiary of an architecural practice, aged 2½ months
The first of a monthly series following Ken Shuttleworth's fledgling practice considers the perils of overly cosy offices and headed notepaper
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Marketwatch: data centre revival
The spectacular collapse of the internet and telecoms sector at the start of the decade led to financial problems at many large clients.
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Comment*Cosying up ...
Building’s series of profiles of clients with lots of work to hand out begins with Manchester University, which is about to launch Project Unity …