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healthcare investment outside england
ScotlandScotland is currently investing nearly half a billion pounds in the biggest hospital building programme in the history of the Scottish NHS. Four new hospitals are complete, with two due to be finished by the end of this year, and another two by the end of 2003. Half of these ...
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Difficult sums
Right you lot, pay attention. If 100 firms bid for government investment of 拢8.5bn over three years, how many will make as much money as they expect to? Is it (a) all of them, (b) only the ones who know the PFI market, or (c) it depends on the government's ...
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Teachers' pet
Jarvis has established itself as the firm to beat in the education market. 精东影视 finds out how
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The water engine
A chance observation in a Moroccan bus gave Charlie Paton an idea that could transform the agriculture of poor and infertile countries around the world. 精东影视 finds out how it works
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A suitable standard
Designers are swamped with a host of quality assurance standards, which causes confusion
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Lead Times
Mace tracks the lead times of 38 works packages and, Gardiner & Theobald puts brickwork in the spotlight
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Rebuilding lives
Gordon Wordsworth, general manager of Sheffield Rebuild, tells Graeme Demianyk why he decided to prioritise social duty over profit-making
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Appointments
ContractorsAshe Construction has promoted Chris Horsfield to contracts director in its London office. In Southampton, Mervyn Butler has been appointed managing director and Clive Harris has been made regional manager.Morgan Lovell has appointed Richard Sanderson (right) head of furniture. Paul Jagger has been appointed estimating and marketing director of JJ ...
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Inspired images
Another glossy architectural tome with the usual gleaming pictures, but as the essays from Lord Rogers and Tony Blair make clear, this is more than just coffee table fodder.
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Rebuilding Britain
Tony Blair's plans to double capital spending by 2004 will create a huge construction boom as the government scrambles to transform public services in time for the next election. Over the next three weeks, in the run up to 精东影视's "Blair's Billions" conference, we throw a spotlight on the government's ...
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The revolutionary
Deryk Eke is charged with ensuring the government gets the most for its money. 精东影视 talks to him about his radical plans
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Putting our houses in order
Recent government commitments to social housebuilding look impressive. But how much can really be delivered over the next three years?
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The delivery boy
Lord Falconer, the new minister of state for housing and planning, talks to 精东影视 about how he intends to turn the government's housing pledges into reality
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Fisch out of water
As beautiful as the chance meeting between a surfing fish and a horse's head in the atrium of a German bank, Frank Gehry's new conference centre has to be seen to be disbelieved. Stuart Black, thesaurus in hand, was the first reporter to pay a visit.
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Cost model: PFI projects
The government has swept aside opposition and committed itself to the use of the private sector in delivering public services. With private finance sure to have a growing role in the government鈥檚 building programme, it鈥檚 time to ask if PFI will be able to deliver. Davis Langdon & Everest reviews ...
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Just the job
Graeme Demianyk speaks to Pete Coombes about his move from yacht design to heading Assael Architecture's new visualisation department
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Appointments
HousebuildersMiller Homes has appointed Anne Marie Britton (right), formerly with Persimmon Homes, sales director for the Scotland east region.Neil Fanning has joined Redrow Homes Southern as regional architect. David Wilson Homes, the housebuilding arm of Wilson Bowden, has appointed Tim Hough, regional chairman of Alfred McAlpine, operations director.ConsultantsConstruction consultant and ...
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Still counting
Six months after the government warned construction to improve site safety or face the consequences, the death toll continues to mount. Is the industry now living on borrowed time?
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The axeman
You may think Andrew Wyllie doesn't look the kind of guy who'd happily tell 800 people they were out of a job – and you'd be right. The Taywood boss couldn't sleep at night while he did it. He tells 精东影视 why it was still the right thing to do.
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Chemical reaction
Having revealed the appalling state of his chemistry department to a TV crew, Cambridge professor David King secured part of a government refurbishment grant to give it a new lease of life.