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Features
Good on paper
The quality of your CV could make or break your job chances. Hays Montrose offers some suggestions on how to make yours an asset not a liability
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News
Carillion makes 400% profit on PFI
Contractor Carillion has disposed of its stake in the Darent Valley hospital in Kent for more than four times its original investment.
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Architects' fees increase 11% in 2003
Architects' fees are expected to have increased 11% this year, according to research by economic consultant Market & Business Development.
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Comment
Granting a sultan's wish
Architects are capable of anything – as long as they're given unlimited funds, resources and co-operation, and have no competition. Ah, them were the days …
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Comment
Welcoming our guest workers
David Blunkett's imperious asylum policy – outlined in the Queen's Speech – may have profound implications for construction.
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Comment
Flights of fancy
I was astounded by the impracticality of the proposed revamp of terraced houses by Shed KM featured in your article "Sex in Coronation Street" (7 November, pages 48-50).
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Comment
Utopia – we're almost there
I enjoyed reading the "Not the Egan Review" (24 October, pages 42-49), which could go a long way to creating Utopia in the industry.
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Comment
To be remote, be intimate
In relation to your article "Good Morning, Vietnam" (5 September, pages 38-41), I would like to point out that many outsource companies are trying to produce information without knowledge or experience of the UK.
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Not in my name
I was less than impressed with your wild editing of my letter to make a politically correct point (7 November, page 35).
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Comment
Full marks for construction training
As a student at Loughborough University studying construction engineering management, I would like to comment on the article about construction students by Kate Allen (14 November, pages 44-47).
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Comment
Private space vs open plan
Paul Morrell ("Are you being served?", 17 October, page 41) commented that we ought to know how much well designed offices aid productivity.
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Comment
Broken homes
I wonder if the government is aware of the upheaval its new Home Condition Report for surveyors might generate.
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Comment
Sound and fury
I got the impression from your article "When walls have ears" (5 September, pages 56-57) that the industry was suggesting a radical new approach, but a method of robust standard details has been working successfully in Scotland for years under the term "deemed to satisfy".
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Comment
Legalised coupling
As we became a limited liability partnership in 2001 – admittedly one of the first – we were puzzled by James Bessey's claim (7 November) that LLPs became legal only in April 2003.
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NewsRogers' flight of fancy
BAA has unveiled this Richard Rogers Partnership design for a £50m control tower at Heathrow. At 87 m, it will be twice as high as the one it will replace. Arup is structural engineer, Amec is M&E contractor, Laing O'Rourke is handling the foundations, Mace is construction manager and Warings ...
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GMB starts property sell-off to cut debts
The heavily indebted GMB union is in talks over the sale of its headquarters in Wimbledon, south-west London, as part of a wider property review
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Home office labour agency
Training Board report shows that it was still failing to hit recruitment levels for ethnic workers.