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Features
Local lowdown
Robert Smith of Hays Montrose continues his series on regional job markets with a report on the Shangri-la that is the Thames Valley
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CommentI know your sort
A witness takes the stand and gives testimony that may send someone to prison or ruin a company. How do we decide whether to believe them?
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News
A plum job
Unions negotiate comfortable ride for T5 workers, with monthly long-weekends and discounted air fares
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Comment
Is that your idea of success?
Ken Livingston (18 July, page 29) might be right that the Hungerford pedestrian bridges do not wobble, but to cite them as an example of project success is hardly warranted.
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Comment
How to repel women
Why are there so few women architects? Disinclination? Not really up to it? Indifference? Or because they take one look at the profession and run a mile?
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FeaturesHitsville, UK
Shoppers brousing the vitrines of High Street Kensington, west London, now have the additional diversion of peering into the jazzy new headquarters of EMI.
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News
Green light for housing
Building residential properties in London does not necessarily lead to greater use of cars or increased road construction, says a report commissioned by Berkeley arm St George.
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Features
Tender price forecast: Varied prospects
London is feeling the pinch as the office market dries up, but prospects are good in many of the regions. The first quarter’s decline in output does not spell doom and gloom, but housebuilders and the public sector will hold the purse strings
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NewsThe Stanford experiment
Work has been completed on the £257m James H Clark Centre at Stanford University in California, designed by Foster and Partners in collaboration with US practice MBT Architecture. The corridors at the research unit have been replaced by external balconies to enable scientists to change the layouts of laboratories. A ...
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Comment
Not good enough, eh?
I read with interest that Paul Newman, the RIBA's head of client services, had put together a list of architects suitable for healthcare projects (11 August, page 10).
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FeaturesDude, where are the waves?
QS David Weight has spent 10 years struggling to convince councils that his artificial reefs would make Britain the wave centre of Europe. Now it looks like he's about to get his big break. We paddled out to talk to him …
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Comment
Don't mention the war
Tony Bingham's column is usually very interesting and relevant but I do not think he should use it to express his opinions on the justification for the Iraq war (25 July, page 68).
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NewsWhat the doctors ordered
Contractor Killby & Gayford has won a £6m contract from the Royal Society of Medicine to refurbish its headquarters in Wimpole Street in central London. The scheme, designed by MJS Architects, includes a lecture theatre, an extension to the library, the refurbishment of the members' facilities and a revamping of ...
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Comment
Ian Davidson memorial
A memorial is to be held on Thursday 4 September to remember Ian Davidson, founder partner of architects Lifschutz Davidson, who died suddenly in February 2003 at the age of 48.
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News
Higher pension costs hit Hanson's profit
Building materials company Hanson is the latest construction sector firm to be hit by the pension crisis. It has revealed that its scheme has a shortfall of £121m.
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NewsContractors urged to protect site workers from sun
Health and Safety Executive issues set of guidelines for construction workers suffering in the sunshine.
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FeaturesComeback kid?
Down Kenneth Clarke may be, out he certainly isn't. The man who claims to have invented PFI is on bullish form and ready to take on contractors, civil servants, bankers – oh, and the Labour government, of course, for messing up his big idea.