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Reinforced concrete learning package
Products - On-site insulation for wall panels, lintels for a police station and a CD-ROM guide to reinforced concrete feature in this structures special.
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Faults on the line
London and Quadrant Housing Trust's repairs hotline was already overstretched when its maintenance budget was frozen. So it's developed an internet service to make everyone's life easier.
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Supporting rights
Tara Meagher, of law firm Beale and Company, clarifies a worker's new 'right to be accompanied'.
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Appointments
ContractorsNottinghamshire-based civil engineering and building company North Midland Construction has appointed Mike Payne and Martin Queally general managers for their cabling and ducting division.Stephen Kelly has been appointed development manager for Morrison Developments. He will be based in Glasgow.Roger Mabey has been appointed to the board of Bovis Lend Lease ...
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Getting the Tube to work
Capitalist scum, Red Ken, the Hatfield crash, interminable waits, dirt and misery. The saga over the part-privatisation of the Tube has it all. But at last there could be light at the end of the tunnel …
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If you think it's bad here…
In the second of 精东影视's safety series in the run-up to John Prescott's summit, we look across the Channel to see how Britain's site death record compares with the rest of Europe.
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John White
On the rugby pitch and in the City, Persimmon's chief executive has a tough reputation. And as he tackles Beazer to create the UK's largest housebuilder, he'll need it.
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Miralles' last laugh
Part imaginative conservation project, part crazy new build, Utrecht town hall is a fitting tribute to its late architect.
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We'd like to build the world a house
脰zdemir and Sheena Keskin have spent 15 years developing the Termo House. They say the fast, easy-to-build and eco-friendly system will provide low-cost housing for millions around the world.
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The pinnacle, limehouse basin, london
Products - A smoke-detection system for saunas, plus The spec on the pinnacle of the Limehouse Basin development in London Docklands.
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Dear Robert
In the first of a new monthly series, Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose answers your career queries.
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Appointments
ContractorsRodger Tellis has been appointed construction director of Berkshire-based Greatworth Properties.Carillion has appointed Andrew Trewick (right) general manager of Nelso, its national partitioning business based in Walsall. HousebuildersGriff Marshalsay, previously with Berkeley Homes, has been appointed managing director for Charles Church's South-east division. Scott Bonnell has joined the southern Home ...
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How the urban renaissance got lost in Yorkshire
Allerton Bywater was supposed to prove the Millennium Village format could work anywhere. Three years on, nothing's happened. 精东影视 asks what went wrong.
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Kapoor and McAslan's art pavilion trumpets Sally Army
This collaboration between artist and architect will provide London with a new Thames-side landmark.
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Our lives in your hands
Construction is on alert as the site death toll rises and John Prescott's safety summit on 27 February approaches. In the first of a four-part series on the safety crisis, 精东影视 asks workers about their experiences on site.
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Ian Andrews
As the first major prime package is announced, and opposition to it continues, Defence Estates' chief executive explains how he intends to stage the revolution in MOD procurement.
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Mine's bigger than yours
Leeds' Bridgewater Place could become the tallest residential building in the north. That is until Manchester comes up with something even higher.
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Madel behaviour
Stanhope is determined to build quicker and cheaper. At its 拢46m mixed-use scheme in Holborn, it is trialling simulation and materials-handling software that should allow it to do just that.
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Countryside Environmental centre, Redditch, Worcestershire
Wolverhampton practice On Line Architects designed Redditch's countryside centre for water sport clubs and to educate children about the local environment.
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Real millennium answers
December's Real millennium quiz led to a flood of well-researched entries – and one contestant who thought Cherie Blair spent 拢1m on baby Leo's nursery. And although no one got all 50 teasers right, the five winners answered between 41 and 45 questions correctly. They each win a state-of-the-art DVD ...