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Products - Doors and windows
How's this for an opening to a doors and windows special: a Victorian east London pub converted into affordable homes that combines traditional timber windows with contemporary aluminium
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FeaturesThe very model of a modern district general
The celebrated ACAD diagnostic and treatment centre in north-west London is to have an equally revolutionary and even more ambitious big brother. It will be a complete acute hospital that promises streamlined healthcare, uplifting architecture and close community links
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Features
Just the job
Andy Fuller, Persimmon Homes' construction director, tells Sally Whitehill why he's spent 16 years at the same firm – and why he's planning to stick around
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Lead times
Most companies have been busy in the first quarter of the year, but market uncertainties are expected to drive down lead times in the future
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Civils spending forecast to fall in three years
Expenditure in the civil engineering sector is expected to fall within three years, according to a report by Market & Business Development.
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Comment
Imhotep & Sons
The first ever architect was so successful, his descendants became pharoahs. Now, 4500 years later, the profession is still plagued by the unreliability of dynasties
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Into the fast stream: The further education market
With building expenditure in further education about to increase 60%, we highlight the challenges and opportunities in the sector
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Comment
Lost clauses
An architect can't just put the RIBA adjudication provisions into a contract with a homeowner and hope for the best. If he doesn't draw attention to them, they may be worthless
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Comment
At the mercy of the panel
The combustibility of cladding panels is a hot topic, and it's left one architect facing millions of pounds in damages and building owners struggling to afford insurance
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Comment
It's still all to play for
I want to respond to Steve Elkin's letter (14 March, page 34), which criticised the Construction Industry Training Board for "pulling the funding" of Regional Construction Careers Groups.
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Comment
Vote of no confidence
Harking back to Tony Bingham's "Blair vs Hussein" article (28 February, page 50), I would find in favour of Mr Hussein.
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Lawyer: know thy stuff
Philip Harris says the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations are unpopular and ineffective (14 March, page 54), and asks the question, what if they came in the form of contractual terms and the right to compensation?
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Just deserts, on two counts
I would like to respond to two of your articles. Firstly, I am troubled by environmental matters – I see all the energy we use and the waste we generate and wonder how can we sustain this?
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Barratt fights Israelis for £50m job
Israeli developer Ampurius Holdings is competing against UK housebuilder Barratt Homes for a £50m mixed-use scheme in south-east London
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Anti-cowboy scheme opens in Wales
The government has launched its anti-cowboy initiative, the quality mark scheme, in Wales.
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NewsOfficer class
Architect HLM Design has been retained by the Ministry of Defence to design its £38m Defence Sixth Form College in Loughborough, Leicestershire.The 19,000 m2 scheme will start on site next month, and when it is finished will house 350 students. HLM Design will do the interior and landscape design. ...
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NewsBoy-oh-boyo
Construction will start next week on the 72 m Altolusso tower in Cardiff. The 22-storey block, which will be the highest residential housing scheme in the Welsh capital, comprises 292 apartments ranging from one-bedroom flats to luxury penthouses with views over Cardiff Bay. The scheme's client is Redrow Homes; architect ...
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Middle classes welcome
In the first of a new series, Brian Moone accuses columnist John Smith of inverted snobbery