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FeaturesMore haste, more speed
Ministers may have promised a bill for London鈥檚 superfast transport link Crossrail next spring, but boss Norman Haste is not leaving his 拢9bn project until then. We saw him in action at the Labour Party Conference
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A touch of class
This City Academy is the first of 200 the government wants to build in deprived inner city areas. However, it鈥檚 unlikely that the others will be designed by Richard Rogers and boast a really pukka kitchen garden
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FeaturesDon鈥檛 supersize me
The Peabody Trust鈥檚 latest exercise in modular housing at Barons Place, west London, houses key workers in compact-and-bijou microflats. We mind our head and step inside a new fun-sized way of living.
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FeaturesHappy hour
Times are good for quantity surveyors, with charge-out rates up by as much as 50% since 2002 and most sectors looking decidedly flush. We drink in Mirza & Nacey鈥檚 latest survey on how much a cost consultant costs
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FeaturesAn inside job
Breaking into the former NatWest HQ was the easy part. Ripping the heart out of it to create state-of-the-art offices while preserving the listed facade, banking hall and directors鈥� suites, and shifting 1000 lorry-loads of rubble without disturbing the heavyweight neighbour 鈥� well, that needed something like a plan 鈥� ...
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Blocking out the pain
Construction manager Tony Bennett is planning to run 250 miles while holding a brick, a feat that will earn him a place in the Guiness Book of Records.
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Off site and off piste: Bob the Builder takes to the slopes
Bob the Builder premiers latest movie at the ICA and unveils a glamourous new leading lady.
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FeaturesL of a challenge
Industry has less than a month to respond to the ODPM鈥檚 radical proposals for Part L of the building regs. John Tebbit, industry affairs director at the CPA, picks out the highlights.
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Ask Edward
The right to employee status and the right to a pay rise are this week's points of legal confusion
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FeaturesTricky business
In the fourth of five monthly articles, 精东影视, in association with ConstructionSkills, investigates why construction operates so inefficiently 鈥� and asks what can be done to improve performance.
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FeaturesB-Trac Services: A business success story
Paul Banner is managing director of B-Trac Services, a small maintenance company in the West Midlands working for housing associations. He explains how his firm achieved Investor in People status
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FeaturesIT workshops: How builders are updating their skills
Robin Hood-Leeder explains how the Federation of Master Builders is trying to help its members improve their performance by setting up IT workshops
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FeaturesHolyrood reaction
The Fraser Report may have passed down its judgment on the Scottish parliament building, but the mud is still flying. Here, 精东影视鈥檚 readers join the fray and Rob Smith, senior partner at Davis Langdon, defends his firm鈥檚 decisions as cost consultant on the project
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Are parliaments inherently unmanageable?
Solicitor Matthew Bell argues that Holyrood was always going to be a problem 鈥� but at least it is in good company 鈥�
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FeaturesBlob on the Tyne
Foster鈥檚 Sage music centre in Gateshead is positively puffed up with pride. And justifiably so thanks to a dramatic riverfront setting and its promise to put the city on the cultural map
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FeaturesPFI in limbo
Ten years after it burst on the scene, PFI has become bogged down in project delays. As research published this week reveals yet more missed PFI targets, We report on how contractors are upping sticks and taking their expertise abroad
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FeaturesTop 200 Consultants 2004: Monsters, Inc
This year鈥檚 consultants league table ranks the 200 biggest, scariest practices in the UK 鈥� and then breaks them down into bite-sized top 100 architects, engineers and surveyors charts. So who are the Godzillas and the Godzukis of the industry this year? We report from under his desk, Tables compiled ...
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FeaturesInside off-site
Modern methods of construction are now being used on all manner of projects, from restaurants to naval bases. Mark Faithfull looks at the latest developments and asks: could this be the age of off-site?