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Curtain up on 拢214m opera house revamp
Remodelled house to open on time but six performances cancelled because of equipment problems.
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精东影视 for fun
Leisure firms will spend more than 拢2.5bn on construction this year, and 10 top clients at 精东影视’s IBM-sponsored procurement conference spelled out what firms have to do to get it.
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Action man
Electrician Pete Dyer left Croydon to join a group expedition to Mongolia – which is a long way to go to organise the construction of a clinic out of straw.
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Do your homework
The schools market is not, so far, one of the PFI’s success stories, but a 拢1.6bn build programme is about to change all that for the firms prepared to put in the effort.
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Could do better
The UK’s first PFI school, the Sir John Colfox in Dorset, is a big hit with staff and pupils. It’s just a shame that the architecture is so uninspiring.
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Summertime blue
The problem of how to prevent glare and heat gain while letting sunlight flood into a building found a new solution in a German bank: electrochromic glass.
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Clients switch on
Once upon a time, clients paid only lip service to IT. Not any more. They have identified state-of-the-art virtual design as a key competitive weapon – so contractors had better do the same.
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Bring on the accolades
There are prizes for everything these days, so why not for law publications that help us understand all the rules and regulations bearing down on us?
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It’s all in the planning
The CDM Regulations impose stringent health and safety obligations on planning supervisors, so construction contracts must include clauses that help them do their jobs.
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Possession and loss
There’s an implied term in all contracts that the employer gives the contractor possession of the site. So, who bears the extra costs when Basque activists arrive?
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About time, too
In his third and final article on how an architect is supposed to decide extensions of time, Dominic Helps reveals the identities of the parties, the facts of the case, and the decision of the court.
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Cost study: Incineration plant
Sewage waste must now be incinerated rather than dumped at sea. In the Mersey valley, an award-winning, state-of-the-art incineration plant sets a model for fitting this bulky new building type into its surroundings and building to a budge
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The knowledge
The Institute of Management's Karen Dale on getting the data you need without suffering information overload.
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Appointments
ContractorsTim Philpott has been appointed health and safety manager at Surrey-based Bancourt Construction.Martin Lunn has been promoted to manager of the design and build team at Higgins.EBC Construction has promoted John Crowhurst to site foreman. Paul Lakin has joined the firm as site manager. David Chudley and Martin Knott have ...
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The lottery victims
Max Fordham is owed 拢200 000 on lottery projects and he's by no means the biggest loser. So, how did the lottery bonanza go so wrong?
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Drama queen
This is the story of how solicitor Yang-May Ooi suddenly saw that the workaday world of construction power, conflict, corruption could be transformed into the plot of a hit novel
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Tales from the riverbank
Big, bold riverside developments with penthouse flats selling for up to 拢5m apiece are jostling for every inch of space along the Thames.
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Recycled yoghurt cartons, wind-powered lights, and a sea of tarmac …
Sainsbury's eco-friendly flagship store on the Greenwich Peninsula pioneers green features and a low-energy heating system. Shame about the car park.
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The word from Wal-Mart
US retail giant Wal-Mart is known for slashing supply chains and suppliers' margins. How will its "build simple, build cheap" philosophy affect procurement at its new UK offshoot, Asda?