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FeaturesYou say you want a revolution
The Scottish tourist office has got another image to put into its montage of Caledonian wonders: the Falkirk Wheel, a spectacular rotating boat lift. And as well as being a marvel of engineering and a work of art, it links the country's two greatest cities
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Within reasons
If an adjudicator's decision is made up of several conclusions, do those all count as binding decisions as well, or are they reasons? It's a pretty thorny question
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NewsManchester on the move
Manchester on the move: Work is expected to start in the summer on this Ian Simpson-designed transport hub in Manchester. The £20m Shudehill interchange for the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive will comprise a bus concourse catering for 150 bus departures an hour, a Metrotram stop and an 803-space multistorey ...
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Lead times
Reinforced concrete frame construction is holding firm with excellent enquiry levels, reports Gardiner & Theobald overleaf, but below Mace detects a continuing downward trend in lead times this quarter
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Just the job
FaberMaunsell's Graham Howells may have been appointed head of the firm's environment division, but he still believes it's important to have a life outside work
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How to spruce up your office this spring
Clean the windowsNatural light is good for your health. The cleaner your windows, the more your employees will benefit from the streams of golden sunlight that will pour into your office as the weather improves. Also, panes of glass covered in guano don't do much for a company's image.Change your ...
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Housing profits set to keep rising
year look set to continue after Wimpey and Crest Nicholson released bullish trading statements.
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Stuck to your guns?
After you start an adjudication, can you introduce new arguments or fresh evidence? A recent decision suggests not, but clarification is needed urgently
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Labour's philosophical fog
So, health minister John Hutton has suddenly realised what construction knew months ago: it is already too late to deliver his new hospitals before the next election. His offer to subsidise bids, truncate tender lists and hire more Whitehall project managers has, therefore, the hallmarks of political panic (pages 28-29). ...
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FeaturesGetting more from your floor
It may sound strange, but concrete in a floor slab is a workshy material – all the the middle bit does is keep the bits at the surface apart. So why not replace it with something lighter? Thomas Lane reports on the Danish invention that does just that
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FeaturesFirms race to slap golden handcuffs on key staff
Performance-related pay pushes up rewards for company decision-makers at every level.
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NewsFinished symphony
Finished symphony: An £8m conversion of the King Charles building at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, south-east London, has been completed for the Trinity College of Music. The scheme, which was project managed by Hornagold & Hills, converted the grade I-listed building into student rehearsal rooms and recording, recital ...
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HTA fights Greenwich ruling
HTA Architects hopes to overturn a legal decision that seriously weakened its ability to sue the developers of the £250m Greenwich Millennium Village project.
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End housing transfers, says UCATT
Construction union UCATT has called for the government to re-examine housing stock transfers after council tenants in Birmingham voted by a big majority against a proposal to switch to a registered social landlord.
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EC Harris played role in royal funeral
Top five QS EC Harris was part of the team running the Queen Mother's funeral, held on Tuesday.
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NewsSuite dreams
Suite dreams: Ireland Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced this week that London-based practice London Bloc Architects had won an open competition organised by the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland to design street furniture for O'Connell Street in Dublin. The suite of furniture structures is repeated along the 550 m street, ...
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New HSE unit to vet designs
The Health and Safety Executive has formed a construction arm to target architects and clients in a bid to improve the industry's accident record.