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FeaturesGo-faster bunnies
After a slow start, leading industry figures are gushing about MBAs being a must-have for anyone wanting to get ahead in construction. If you have experience, motivation and the right institution, they say, it can bring your career on leaps and bounds.
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FeaturesIf we can make it there 鈥�
With Murray Grove, Cartwright Pickard established itself as the practice that could turn modular technology into architecture. Now that the Americans want it to do the same for them, the practice is poised to realise some of its ambitions. And boy is it ambitious 鈥�
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FeaturesThe Status Seeker
RICS president Peter Fall wants the institution to have a global profile and he expects its members to fork out for it. The only problem is, some of them are beginning to wonder just what the point of RICS is 鈥�
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Gains backs CITB against Prescott
Construction Confederation president John Gains has rejected government criticism of the Construction Industry Training Board.In a letter to deputy prime minister John Prescott, Gains said he was 鈥渄isappointed鈥� by his attack on the board. Prescott called it 鈥渁 disgrace鈥� for not tackling the skills shortage adequately (see 精东影视, 11 April, ...
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600,000 building workers to get 23% pay rise
Construction unions and employer bodies last week agreed a 23% pay rise for more than 600,000 building workers over the next three years.The deal was thrashed out at a meeting of the Construction Industry Joint Council, a committee made up of the Construction Confederation and union representatives from UCATT, GMB ...
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Interserve steals March with deals worth 拢87m
拢38m Ministry of Defence college and Tyneside office block help support services firm beat off Carillion.
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FeaturesJust the job
Philip Cooper tells us why structural engineering is all about using your imagination
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Down, but not out
This month, we report that the pace of growth in construction activity has slackened to a 10-month low, but that it's likely to pick up over the next quarter
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Deborah Vogwell
Value for money in a construction project has to be defined before it can be meaningful
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FeaturesWhere eagles dare
精东影视 a climbers' shelter 3000 m up a French mountain is a job for high-fliers only 鈥� and even then it can end up being a real cliffhanger
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FeaturesShowstopper
In the 1990s, Britain's theatre enjoyed a golden age, thanks to our national addiction to the National Lottery. Now that the public is kicking the habit, it seems theatres are out of luck
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Galliford Try to axe jobs and close Plymouth office
Shake-up at contractor-housebuilder means staff cuts will also affect Leeds and Maidstone arms; most will be redeployed in London branches.
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DTI set to relocate 2000 staff
The DTI is considering moving more than 2000 clerical staff out of its offices in Victoria Street, central London.A Whitehall source said that the lease would have to be renegotiated soon and senior officials were looking for other offices because they expected the cost to rise sharply. The department has ...
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FeaturesBlazing a trail
Ballal Raza is a down-to-earth Brummie project manager with bags of confidence and plenty of commitment 鈥� and the industry needs to recruit thousands more just like him. We met a young Asian professional taking construction's image issues in his stride.
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FeaturesUnited nations taskforce
These days, Britain's skills shortage is so severe that our contractors are happy to employ workers from all over the world. But what do they think of working with us? We went to Paternoster Square in the City of London to find out.
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Local lowdown
This week, Robert Smith of Hays Montrose looks at the job market in the South-east, where a building boom means contractors are looking for skilled recruits
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Office fit-out
Although demand for new-build office space has plummeted in the past two years, one particular office sector is active and competitive. In this model, Davis Langdon & Everest, services cost consultant Mott Green & Wall and property tax specialist NBW Crosher & James examine the falling costs of fit-out
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Model answer
A triple-deck timber drum, meandering internal mall, state-of-the-art IT and an open-to-all cr猫che, cybercafe and library make Blyth Community College the government's template for future state schools. We took a long, close look.