All Building articles in 2003 issue 48
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RICS warns on 'seller's packs'
The government's plans to speed up the homebuying process with "seller's packs" could be hamstrung by a lack of properly trained surveyors
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NewsMix and match
Jeremy Paxton is a property developer with a sense of fun – as you might guess from this holiday home estate, which puts chocolate box cottages next to hard-core modernist homes. But there's a price to pay, as we find out …
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Features
Local lowdown
The south-west of England has never been livelier, with construction jobs and salaries surfing a wave of development, says Robert Smith of Hays Montrose
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FeaturesLaurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Don't be fooled by the foppish style: Britain's favourite interior designer is set to have a say in the way we build entire towns. Which may be of interest to Prince Charles … we find out more.
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Comment
Here starteth the lesson
An initiative to promote training on social housing projects should show the industry how to shed its insecurities and secure its future
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NewsTheakston plans to take gap year
John Theakston, the chief executive of Swan Hill, will take up to a year off work once his departure from the housebuilder is confirmed later this month
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NHS report warns of hospital funding gap
A £5bn development programme of more than 150 healthcare projects in greater London could be undermined by funding and planning problems.
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FeaturesThe x factor
Squeezing a million extra visitors into New York would be an Olympian feat, but the team bidding against London to host the 2012 games has developed a race advantage. They call it the Olympic X
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NewsVery enlightening
HOK Conservation has completed an £8m restoration of the oldest part of the British Museum. Completed in 1827 the King's Library – one of the noblest neoclassical halls in Europe – has been converted into a gallery. The hall, which houses a permanent exhibition devoted to the enlightenment, has ...
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CommentGive 'em their due
Stonecarvers at the Royal Courts of Justice job in 1880 lost out when the employer withheld money. If only they'd had the Construction Act to protect them …
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The Holyrood drama takes a turn for the worse
Former project manager tells Fraiser inquiry of his early warnings about Miralles and Bovis, as news emerges of 264 design variations in November
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FeaturesGoing down a storm
The Met Office has just moved all its staff and forecasting equipment to a purpose built facility in balmy Devon – without a second's break in its service. We found out how the project team made a tricky transition into a summer breeze
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Designers waste one-sixth of their time
Architecture, engineering and construction firms waste nearly one-sixth of their time as a result of using outdated design software, a report claimed this week.
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Surveyors win design rights
Building and quantity surveyors are to be allowed to be involved in the building design process after an amendment to a European directive.
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David Curry
A report by the Housing Corporation offers some tantalising ideas on low cost home ownership schemes. But does the government have the imagination to follow them through?
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Construction firms face tougher rules on gay rights
Legislation introduced this week exposes employers to threat of unlimited damages for discrimination
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Just a few complicated points
It's not easy, but firms negotiating PFI deals must identify the risks they're running. Here's how to go about the job