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Cardiff to get £100m high-tech 'taxi' system
Cardiff council is looking for a contractor to build a high-tech transport system in Cardiff Bay.
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NewsLaing and Lovell top awards
Laing Homes and Lovell Partnerships scooped the top prizes in the 2002 Building Homes Quality Awards, hosted by Building and the Housing Forum, at Le Meridien Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Tuesday.
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Game theory
Keeping everybody with an interest in your project happy can involve complicated strategies – that is why it's worth learning the rules …
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NewsEgan: Asite will be in black by end of year
Sir John Egan, chairman of internet portal Asite, believes the industry's move to e-commerce means that the business is about to make its first profit.
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Housing sales boost profit at Henry Boot
A strong performance from Henry Boot's housing division has helped the group post a 9% increase in profit, despite a fall in turnover.
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Step on the accelerator
Sir John Egan did well to get construction to give itself an overhaul. Now his successor, Peter Rogers, needs to get the whole industry moving in the right direction
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FeaturesThe artful dodger
Glenn Allison is planning a campaign to persuade the English public that they really do want to buy timber-frame houses, regardless of what they may have read about fire risks. Here he cleverly avoids telling us why …
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FeaturesSense and sensuality
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma synthesises Japanese traditionalism and European modernism in the form of a bamboo house in the forests of China. Sounds about right for this year's winner of Finland's Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award …
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Comment
We need a New Model PFI
And about bloody time. After five years of obfuscation, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown faced down the unions in Blackpool over the PFI (see news).
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Death by exposure
The state of the professional indemnity insurance market is so bad that firms unlucky enough to be hit by several claims a year may well be ruined
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Do yourself a mischief
Construction professionals won't want to be without these new guides – even if they do have to get a hernia picking up the first, Emden's Construction Law
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A question of … timing
The 28-day deadline gives neither the parties nor the adjudicator proper time to ensure that quality decisions are reached. We need a more sensible period
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Reid helps airports stop terrorists
Reid Architecture has drawn up draft guidelines on how cargo holds at airports can be designed to counter terrorist attacks
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CABE issues guide to PFI schools design
Architecture watchdog CABE has introduced guidelines to improve the design of PFI schools.
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NewsEntrancing
This internal bridge is part of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris' £12.25m redesign of the foyer at the Barbican Centre in central London.Besides the bridge, work is planned on revamping entrances, signage and lighting. The project is due for completion by early 2006, but is subject to listed building consent. Project ...
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NewsMultiplex blows final whistle on old Wembley
Australian contractor starts demolition of national stadium, with twin towers due to go in November.
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The avenger
It was a bank holiday when the call came. Emergency gas leak, or so they thought. Here was a chance to pay back all those years of being messed around …
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FeaturesThe barrier method
The picturesque town of Bewdley made the headlines in 2000 after it suffered three floods in six weeks. The challenge was to stop it happening again, but every option was either impossible, could make things worse or would cost £470m. Except for one …
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