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  • 2007 ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ horoscope image
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    The 2007 ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ horoscope

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Will the Olympic budget keep soaring? Will Ray O’Rourke buy when Amec sells? Will Ucatt survive against the super union? Will QSs still be interested in property? And will we still be talking about Wembley in December? Consulting a beginner’s guide to astrology, we reveal all this and more in ...

  • Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate,  When the partition behind the stage is open, the arena and the auditorium can accommodate all 1200 pupils and teachers
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    ‘You could run this building as a traditional school – but it would be a waste’

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ Design Partnership’s Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate is like no other school – it has a campus feel, there are no corridors and the students don’t even bunk off.

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    Escaping doesn’t have to be this hard …

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Ready for another year of sitting at the same desk, talking to the same people and staring out of the same window? No? Claire Dodd helps plot your bid for freedom

  • Honda in the fast lane: ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ a car image 9
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    A well-oiled machine

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Honda’s construction team has taken inspiration from the company’s car production lines to keep its projects purring smoothly

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    Laing O’Rourke strikes it rich in Bedfordshire

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Contractor dominates November league with £120m social housing deal

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    2006 Pub Olympics

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Think ancient Greece, think heroics: the passion, the struggle, the glory. Now think London pub: designers, QSs and builders slugging it out with ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ contributors for gold. Inspiring, isn’t it?

  • The year that was 2006
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    This was the year that was 2006

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Government plans for nuclear Future. Coleman in, Millett out at Bovis. Gordon Brown sets leadership agenda. Wembley still unbuilt. Consultants flee war-torn Lebanon. Treasury reviews the PFI’s future. ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ buys pints. Jack Lemley slams London 2012.

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    Steady as she goes

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Contractors in all sectors and across all regions were feeling buoyant in October. According to the Experian Business Strategies survey, activity is rising across the board – and especially in civil engineering. When it comes to the future, though, they’re a little less certain

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    Appointments

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    This week's movers …

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    Pub Olympics

    2006-12-12T11:50:00Z

    Who tops the medal table when it comes to pub sports? We preview ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ's inaugural Pub Olympics

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    Cost update: December 2006

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    In this quarter’s update on the cost of materials and labour, Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon reports on the latest inflation trends. And reading on we have details of pay awards for workers

  • Yvette Cooper
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    Typical. You wait years for a report setting out government policy on vital areas like housing and transport and then three come at once …

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Ahead of Gordon Brown’s pre-Budget report on Wednesday, the government released a series of weighty tomes on policy strategy. Here David Blackman and Mark Leftly provide an at-a-glance guide to them

  • Arts Team’s modernist extension, on the right, had to be different from Matcham’s facade to avoid unbalancing its symmetry
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    Harmonic progression

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    RHWL’s Arts Team has refurbished and extended Frank Matcham’s Victorian nonpareil, the Belfast Grand Opera House. Sonia Soltani reports on how the two styles have been made to work together

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    Oh my god, I didn’t

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Ah, but the sick lump of fear in your stomach tells you that you did – and now you have to go to work and cope with the fall-out. Lydia Stockdale and Katie Puckett report on how to make sure your Christmas party antics don’t ruin your career …

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    Appointments

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Who's got a new job this week?

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    Foreword

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    The chancellor’s pre-Budget statement opens a new chapter for regeneration this week, with the expected release of policy documents including economist Kate Barker’s review of the planning system.

  • Chris Cole
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    The long haul

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Chris Cole has been with WSP for 33 years, during which time it has developed, diversified, turned into a plc, balanced on the edge of disaster and finally grown into one of the industry’s foremost consultants. Here he tells Mark Leftly all about it.

  • 16.26pm The first block has collapsed and the fire has spread to the second block
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    ‘A lot of the guys won’t work on timber frame again’

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    This July, a site in north London turned into a terrifying inferno in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee. Nobody knew why. Now the London Fire Brigade has talked exclusively to ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ about what happened and the dangers inherent in multistorey timber-frame sites.

  • Stubbs Rich has taken a tired old library and reinvented it as a funky learning resource centre
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    The grater good

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Education For the new learning resource centre at Herefordshire College of Technology, the architect will reuse the concrete frame of the original library, but add some very inventive mesh cladding.

  • Joanna Davis
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    The right stuff

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Think you’re bright, talented and destined for great things? Then you might even think you’ve got what it takes to be nominated for a g4c award by your peers. The g4c (that’s Generation for Collaboration) awards were set up to reward young professionals in construction, and the first winners have ...