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  • News

    Six vie for £200m village

    2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

    Developer Urban Splash and the RIBA have shortlisted six architects, including Glas Architects & Designers and Stephenson Bell, for the first phase of Manchester's £200m millennium village

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    OFT to investigate unfair public sector contracts

    2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

    The Office of Fair Trading is to launch an inquiry into the government's procurement policy after a report found that small firms were being locked out of lucrative public sector contracts

  • News

    Dawn drugs raid on Skanska's MoD HQ site

    2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

    Military police have carried out a dawn raid on Skanska's landmark Ministry of Defence headquarters refurbishment project in Whitehall

  • News

    Olympian body builder

    2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

    A futuristic structure that can flex and change shape like a human body is to be built for the Athens Olympic Games. The design, by New York firm ROEWUarchitecture, won an international competition that attracted 470 entries. The submission statement from project architects Chiafang Wu and Stephen Roe said: "We ...

  • News

    Costain in talks with Bechtel over Iraqi work

    2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

    UK contractor Costain has sent two directors to Kuwait to lobby US companies Haliburton and Bechtel for subcontract work in Iraq

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    Hunt goes on for chief of development agency

    2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

    Regeneration body the East of England Development Agency has restarted its search for a new boss

  • News

    Clarson Goff hires top dogs

    2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

    Project manager Clarson Goff has beefed up its management team after the departure of two directors last month

  • News

    Sharewatch

    2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

    How construction fared in the City this week

  • Features

    The top down revolution

    2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

    Anyone who thinks of roofing subbies as simple, horny-handed sons of toil had better think again. The modern firm is a slick, high-tech, high IQ outfit

  • Features

    What's the spec?

    2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

    Pebble Beach, Barry, South Wales

  • News

    No running in the halls, David

    2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

    The exuberant school standards minister David Miliband was stopped in his tracks this week by the head prefect, education secretary Charles Clarke, who said repair funds could be used for teachers' pay rises.

  • Comment

    Hope for the no-hopers

    2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

    The appellant, Chan U Seek, had brought a claim for payment of commission in respect of two contracts entered into by the defendant in 1995 and 1996 with the Indonesian Ministry of Defence. The deputy master had struck out and dismissed the claim under CPR 3.4(2) ...

  • News

    Schools

    2003-05-16T00:00:00Z

  • Features

    David Langdon & Everest's Rob Smith

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Davis Langdon & Everest’s new boss tells us about his plans for the QS in the chilly days to come. Nothing drastic – just a complete change of culture and business strategy …

  • Comment

    Blow your rights

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Why try to compare litigation with mediation when they do different things? We have mediation because we can't afford to find out what the truth is

  • News

    Babtie curbs staff travel because of fears over Sars

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Consultant's Hong Kong and UK offices hold meetings by video as virus epidemic shows no signs of abating.

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    BAA faces crunch decision over electricians' pay at T5

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Firm reluctant to concede wage rises for M&E staff for fear of setting benchmark for other workers.

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    MDA directors set up rival QS with former boss

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    David Clark and Paul Mansell join forces with former boss David Somerset to found Matrix.

  • Comment

    Not you again

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    One adjudicator tackling several related disputes seems a good way to cut out duplicated effort. But the parties must agree to it – or the adjudicator will get it from all sides

  • News

    CABE goes to Paris to improve social housing

    2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Design watchdog CABE has teamed up with its French counterpart, Direction de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, to launch a competition for social housing in London and Paris, writes Sally Mesner.