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    Toolkits for housing PFIs

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    The government is to provide a toolkit to help local authorities implement its troubled PFI housing schemes.

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    Three vie for £30m Oldham library

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Teams led by Kier, Gleeson and David McLean have been shortlisted to build a civic centre-style library in Oldham

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    Sixty-eight specialists in awards shortlist

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Sixty-eight firms have been shortlisted for Building's first Specialist Contractor Awards, in association with the DTI.

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    Nelson the victorious

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Malcolm Nelson of Laing O'Rourke has been named Construction Manager of the Year by the Chartered Institute of Building.

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    Client body to go ahead after DTI agrees funds

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    An umbrella group for clients is to be launched in December, after the government agreed to provide funding for it.

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    QS institute is launched

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    The Quantity Surveyors Institute, a professional body set up to compete with the RICS, is poised to sign up 1000 members and will grow to 6000 in five years, claimed founder Roger Knowles this week.

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    Arts centre team may face claim after roof collapse

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    The Team that built an arts centre in Liverpool will shortly discover if they face a claim for a roof collapse in April this year.

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    CIS appeals may cost £50,000

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Contractors that are refused CIS tax scheme certificates may soon also lose their right to appeal against the decision

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    Royle approval for building movie

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Comedy actor and former builder Ricky Tomlinson has been asked to star in a film about the working lives of a team of painters and decorators.

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    Going for a spin

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Architect Ron Arad Associates has unveiled this showroom for car manufacturer Maserati in the Italian city of Modena.

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    High hopes

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    The Wilkinson Eyre-designed 'Bridge of Aspiration' that connects the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, central London, was one of the shortlisted entries in the innovation category at the Wood Awards on Wednesday night.

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    Water rebirth

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Alsop Architects this week unveiled a masterplan to redevelop Bradford's city centre. Under the plan, prepared for urban regeneration company Bradford Centre Regeneration, the city is to get its own waterfront, with a park to be created around a lake in front of City Hall. The Alsop plan to ...

  • Comment

    Are you being served?

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    When people design their own offices, they create a very different product from that typically offered by spec developers. And thereby hangs a tale

  • Features

    How's this for a high court?

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Richard Roger's design brief for Antwerp's law courts was to create a roof that would add interest to the city's monotonous skyline. So the project team put geometrical thinking caps on and came up with some tall and dramatic shapes, as we found out

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    Workshop

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    This week's roofing special covers everything from guidance on working safely at height, to who's repairing the roofs of Westminster Abbey. Plus, a look at the classroom roofing of the future …

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    A matter of conduct

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    The claimant, Corenso (UK) Limited supplied the defendant ("Burnden") with coreboard from its French factory. Burnden received a number of complaints from its customers about the quality of the coreboard, which led to them making a complaint to Corenso in September 2000. Corenso's solicitors responded to the complaint, and proceedings ...

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    Ballast Nedam amputates UK arm

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Long-troubled UK PFI specialist Ballast goes into administration after being left for dead by Dutch parent group.

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    Appointments

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    Movers and shakers

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    The green lobby wants low energy, sustainable, recyclable ecohomes:

    2003-10-10T00:00:00Z

    is this what they have in mind?We report on the escalating demands of the environmental pressure groups

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    Ginger's bad fur day

    2003-10-10T00:00:00Z

    When a decorator spills paint over your moggy, ruining his chances in the cat show, do you have a claim? Claws out for the 'but for' test