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FeaturesAn unconventional day
At Building’s first ever Construction Client Convention last Tuesday, Nigel Griffiths pledged his support, major clients learned the importance of their role, industry firms networked for new contracts and our editor did what he does best …
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FeaturesA roman triumph
The opening scene is a vast rundown Edwardian variety hall unsympathetically converted into a drab cinema. Enter lions, angels, QSs, engineers, architects, chariots, emperors and slaves bearing alabaster friezes, golden statues and a vast rotating ball. Cue music …
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FeaturesCost model: Affordable housing
Planning guidance on affordable housing quotas in private schemes has got developers and contractors scratching their heads and crunching their numbers. Here, Davis Langdon & Everest eases their pain …
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Just the job
How Adam Johnson of Learning and Skills Council is on a mission to train 20,000 construction workers
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Serves us right
The maddeningly dysfunctional nature of Britain's planning system can be largely explained by the general rule that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
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NewsBroker's notes: A-wooing and eschewing
Is love in the air this Valentine's Day for you, dear readers? I know of many amorous chaps and chapettes in the City who are getting quite excited in anticipation of their steamy Saturdays.
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Wanted: Staff for 70-hour week in Iraqi desert
Recruitment consultant Beresford Blake Thomas is looking for Arabic-speaking construction workers prepared to put in regular 70-hour weeks in the middle of the desert in Iraq.
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Immigration requires regulation
The Morecambe Bay tragedy has swung the spotlight back onto illegal immigrants in construction.
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Playing by the rules
The Princess Royal Sports Arena in Boston, Lincolnshire, is a wooden wonder. Constructed entirely from timber, the sports centre looks like an ark awaiting a flood on its site at the edge of the North Sea. One of the most remarkable things about the arena is that architect BGP McGonaghy ...
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FeaturesIt's wood all the way
Finding a way to protect Boston's athletes from the bitter Lincolnshire winds created a hurdle for the team building a sports arena. But local supplier Finnforest had a natural solution, as Alex Smith discovered
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'Not likely to be a common occurrence'
Anyone thinking of trotting off to the TCC to resolve their dispute ought to read this amazing Appeal Court judgment before they do …
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Missing the point
Judges would prefer disputes to end up in mediation rather than court – but frogmarching both parties to the table will only undermine the process
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FeaturesBenchmark costs
How much you spend on a school sports hall naturally depends on the project and its specification. Paul Moore of multidisciplinary consultant EC Harris breaks down the benchmark costs of 10 recent schemes to give you a guide
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NewsCan do better
Schools standards minister David Miliband this week named the 14 local authorities that will spearhead the government's Building Schools for the Future plan, which aims to rebuild or refurbish every secondary school in England. In the first wave, due to start in 2005/06, £2.2bn will be shared between 180 schools ...
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NewsSuite Thames …
The £100m regeneration scheme at King's Quay, overlooking the Royal Albert Basin in London's Thames Gateway, is about to go on site. Architect Jestico + Whiles, working with developer Furlong City, has established an urban quarter around the 1882 grade II*-listed Gallions Hotel. More than 440 homes and a hotel ...