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Five tools for getting the balance right
Curl up with Rob Parson's The Heart of Success (£7, Hodder & Stoughton). This newly published book is packed with practical advice for executives about how to balance family and career demands. "Try applying one principle a week and see the change," raves one reviewer.Try the TUC's Changing Times Published ...
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Have you noticed the time?
Contractors can have their work cut out trying to get an extension of time. But sometimes the stringent conditions placed on them can backfire on the employer
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Legal letters
Nick Henchie's guide to ways of dodging adjudication and Andrew Pike's call to scrap JCT contracts provoked a bulging postbag. Here's a small selection of readers' thoughts …
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FeaturesCost study: Coin Street housing
Haworth Tompkins’ design for Coin Street on London’s South Bank has been hailed as a new model for high-density inner-city housing. In this project review Coin Street Community Builders, Haworth Tompkins Architects and Davis Langdon & Everest look at the project’s design costs
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Scientific recruitment
Bill Watts of building services engineer Max Fordham tells Matthew Richards why it takes more than just an engineering degree to impress his firm
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FeaturesAppointments
ContractorsHertfordshire-based Borras Group has made three appointments at its subsidiary, T&B Contractors. Mark Hickson has been appointed contracts director. Marc Jeffries becomes contracts manager. Kevin O'Dell has been promoted to chief surveyor. HousebuildersLaurence Garner has joined Kier Residential as finance director. Karen Parker has been appointed sales manager for Gleeson ...
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NewsLandmark buildings face terror risk assessment
Safety at sporting venues and tall buildings to be scrutinised over heightened terrorism fears.
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FeaturesThe new traditionalists
Classical architecture is making a bid for recognition. Martin Spring looks at a movement attempting to shake off its retarded image, and overleaf Mark Leftly profiles David Lunts, the man who is about to bring Prince Charles' agenda into the heart of the government
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Redrow slashed Tay jobs by one-third after acquisition
Housebuilder reveals that last year's purchase resulted in 60 redundancies at Yorkshire-based firm.
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Beyond these shores
If you're carrying out a construction project abroad, you need to be aware of the potential pitfalls. Start by finding out which country's law applies
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Former Bickerton directors win unfair dismissal case
Employment tribunal accepts claim by two executives that they were bullied into resigning.
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Railtrack collapse will hit PPPs, warns City
of Railtrack has put public–private infrastructure projects at risk.
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Newly expanded WSP bids for Railtrack work
Consulting engineer WSP is making its first foray into the rail market by bidding to become a framework consultant for Railtrack.
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Jams and pile-ups ahead
The sequence of notices on payment and suspension is in a right tangle. Recent decisions by both judges and adjudicators only tighten the knots
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Wilson to take plunge on quality mark roll out
Minister expected to approve national extension of anti-cowboy scheme after favourable DTI review of pilots.
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Air restorer
You might want to take a deep breath before reading this – or then again, since the air in your office may be 10 times more polluted than it is outdoors, you might not. But now there's an air purification system that filters out the yuck and zaps bacteria to ...
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NewsHLM merges with US namesake
BRITISH architect HLM Design has been acquired by a US-based practice – also called HLM.
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'Fundamental error' pushes Miletrian into red
A financial blunder at London fit-out specialist Miletrian has helped to turn a reported profit for 2000 of £1.24m into a loss of £52,000 and has triggered a decision to close two offices.
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NewsFalconer taskforce to push for more affordable homes
DTLR unit to crack down on councils that pass schemes with low levels of social housing.
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Prince's man appointed cities tsar
Prince's Foundation chief executive David Lunts is to become urban regeneration tsar.