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Features
Construction firms face loss of 1000 key staff as call-ups start for Iraq
Industry braced for disruption as reservists begin to leave their construction posts and join their regiments.
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Features
Unions call for 64% rise in pay over three years …
… but employers offer 10% as the latest round of the national minimum wage agreement gets under way.
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Comment
Take this for your trouble
Can you claim for all the hassle time spent sorting out a problem caused by someone else? Well, a recent case in the Scottish courts may provide an answer
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FeaturesRafael Viñoly
The Uruguayan's idea of resurrecting New York's twin towers as refined replicas of their former selves was an attempt to imagine how the city would look in 25 years.We asked him where the inspiration came from
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Comment
No platform for racists
As an anti-racist dedicated to fighting for equality in the construction industry, I was appalled to see a four-page article in the "Business magazine of the year" dedicated to the Nazi British National Party (31 January, pages 26-29).
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FeaturesTake the spring out of your step
Lightweight floor slabs deliver maximum ceiling heights and cost savings, but have a tendency to develop Millennium Bridge syndrome. Now a shock-absorbing solution – developed by Arup, of course – is set to put workers' feet back on firm ground.
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Comment
The other side of the story
In reference to your news story "School PFI deals attacked" (17 January, page 11), it would appear that everybody's favourite whipping boy, the PFI, has failed to live up to expectations.
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Comment
No, sir, Mr President
The response of Peter Fall, president of the RICS, to the decline in entry to construction courses (7 February, page 34) was extremely disappointing.
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Comment
Of Mies and men
Mies van der Rohe's failure to win an architectural competition in 1910 gives us an insight into a fascinating in-between period in the careers of artists
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Features
Local lowdown
In the latest of his series on regional job markets, Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose looks at the South Coast, where QSs are in BIG demand
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NewsThe hound's off the leash
The £75m redevelopment of Baskerville House, one of Birmingham's most prominent landmarks, has been given the green light by the council's planning committee. The project will incorporate the building's grade II-listed interior with 18,584 m2 of office space and a basement health club. The floorplates will be modified to ...
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Comment
War: What it is good for
There's a stockbrokers' adage about trading in times of conflict: "Sell on the sabre-rattle, buy on the battle".
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Features
Going steady
This month, although the outlook for the industry remains positive, the rate of growth looks set to fall from the dizzy heights of 2002
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Comment
Fun with nettles
I was fascinated to read the last paragraph of Alistair McAlpine's column (14 February, page 31).
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Comment
How could you be so foolish?
I notice in your website survey (31 January, page 42) that you list Vinci among the top 50 sites.
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News
Oh, what a dreary war
The never-ending build up to the war with Iraq is making markets nervous and threatening to tip the global economy into recession. The construction industry may not be immune
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News
Global downturn hits Skanska
Skanska's global turnover and profit levels fell in 2002, as the worldwide economic slowdown hit the order books of the world's largest construction firm, writes Matthew Richards.
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Comment
I know something you don't
The letter entitled "Incestuous recruitment" (31 January, page 33) caught my eye, as I graduated six months ago and am now in the industry full time.