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Features
Switched on
Nothing ruins a good interior like bad light. If only designers and lighting engineers talked more
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Features
Target practice
The unique shape of the Greater London Authority building has called for some very special surveying skills. We met the man providing them.
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Features
State your position
As Ray O'Rourke will find out, changing the underlying vision and direction of a business is a vast and difficult undertaking fraught with risk
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News
Rok plans South-east shopping spree
Exeter-based construction group Rok is eyeing acquisition targets in the South-east after doubling its share price in the past year.
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Features
Party pledges
What do the three main parties have up their sleeves for construction's employers? We take a look at their election manifestos to find out
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Features
Natural science
The Clyde's armadillo-shaped conference centre now has a slug-like Imax theatre on the opposite bank – just one of a trio of structures that form the Glasgow Science Centre.
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News
RICS launches sustainability measure
A tool for measuring the economic and ecological value of a proposed development was launched last week by the RICS.
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News
New man at MoD procurement helm
Communication systems expert Michael Pengelly has taken over from Ted Pearson as head of Defence Estates' prime contracting initiative.
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News
Regional gulf opens as growth of output slows
Study finds activity still soaring in London but stagnating in North-west and Scotland.
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Comment
Too much of a good thing
Human rights legislation seems to have complicated almost every area of public and private life – not least in planning and construction
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Comment
Life in the fast lane
If the client is to blame for a project running late yet refuses to grant an extension, the contractor may still be able to recover the costs of acceleration
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News
Dixon Jones told to 'totally redesign' Oxford project
City planners object to mixed-use development overshadowing 11th-century castle mound.
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GLA housing critique
The Greater London Authority has failed to tackle the question of providing affordable housing for key workers in its spatial development strategy, according to a study by chartered surveyor Drivers Jonas.
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Features
Coventry united
You can take on a job three times larger than your turnover, with a little help from your friends. We find there is strength in numbers.
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Features
Cost update
Changes to the cost of materials and labour in the ventilation and air-conditioning sector is the the focus of Davis Langdon & Everest's latest up-to-the-minute guide to the changing price of construction work
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News
Contracts
£32m fit-out for ShepherdContractor Shepherd has won a £32m job to refurbish and fit out St George's Court, an office building in central London, for London and Regional Properties.Wates/Atkins wins PFI schoolsA WS Atkins/Wates joint venture has secured a £1m contract with Kent council for the Swanscombe Schools PFI project.Banner ...
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Quick change
Contractor Skanska has started building the shell and core of this £60m transport interchange for Manchester Airport.