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FeaturesA special relationship
Reebok was so set on making its flagship UK sports club the mirror image of its US chain that it insisted its fit-out contractor use American workers and materials. Cue much head scratching, jargon translation and getting used to strange building practices – like no tea breaks … Thomas Lane ...
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Brushing up
David Hill, managing director of building services engineer Hills Electrical & Mechanical, takes Building through his experience of gaining a CSCS card
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FeaturesCost model: 21st-century university building
The government wants 50% of 18-30-year-olds to be educated to degree level by 2010, and expects universities to compete in international research markets. So what buildings are required to help meet these objectives? In its latest cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest examines the 21st-century university building
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Prefab doubt
Government handouts for housing associations to embrace prefabrication have been largely rejected, as so far only half the cash has been taken up. But why – and what can be done to convince them that off-site construction holds the key to affordable housing?
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NewsWhitehall creates tsar to deliver hospital programme
Department of Health creates role of capital spending chief to ensure 100 hospitals are built by 2010.
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SMC Group buys architect in aggressive growth drive
Bullish architecture group makes the top 10 after finalising purchase of Corstorphine & Wright.
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FeaturesGood, bad and just plain ugly
At next week's urban summit, deputy prime minister John Prescott will be called to account for his regeneration policy. To show the kind of problems he faces, Mark Leftly examines three exemplary schemes that met very different fates
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Pass master
Accelerating Change is a clarion call for risk-sharing. Some hope, when Jarvis and others are busy amending the standard form of subcontract to pass the risk downstream
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FeaturesWhere did Atkins go so wrong?
After five years of extraordinary growth, consultant Atkins had become so big that nobody really understood the whole business. So in a bid to create a coherent structure, its new chief executive introduced a centralised accounting program – and a year later its shares were almost worthless. The question is, ...
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NewsGreenwich Millennium Village may double in size
Countryside Properties and Taylor Woodrow aim to increase the number of homes from 1377 to 2500.
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NewsWimpey to close Laing Homes' Milton Keynes HQ
Integration of Laing's housebuilding business expected to cost £7m, mainly in redundancy payments.
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FeaturesYoung man in a hurry
The dynamic new head of English Heritage is out to blow the dust off the conservation quango. Martin Spring meets charismatic super-curator Simon Thurley.
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Amey FD will need five months to audit books
City sources this week claimed it would take acting finance director Eric Tracey until next year to get a clear picture of Amey's accounts.
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Construction is ignorant of Egan initiatives, says report
Survey finds only 12% of construction firms have partnering deals and 10% use key performance indicators.
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NewsBirse writes off £5.5m as Leicester City goes broke
Contractor gives up on final payment for £27.5m stadium after football club calls in administrators.
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NewsJailed contractor is freed by Court of Appeal
Brian Dean, convicted to 18 months in prison for manslaughter, is released and fined a nominal £1.
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Race starts for key PFI housing job
Contractors United House and Osborne and architects PRP and HTA are believed to be among the names in the running for the government's flagship PFI social housing scheme in Ashford, Kent.
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Eight in running for Canada Water
Developer British Land and an Urban Catalyst–Multiplex joint venture head a longlist of eight for the £400m redevelopment of Canada Water in south-east London.