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Dear Amanda …
Amanda Levete’s 22 January column suggesting a committee of architects be put in charge of planning was discussed by the online community …
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CommentHansom: The meaning of life
As Monty Python so clearly showed, our worlds comprise just a few basic elements: learning, work, sex, war, recreation and wondering what on earth it’s all about anyway. And construction’s got the lot
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CommentA wiser course for busy fools
When times are desperate, there’s a temptation to grab anything that might boost our turnover. The game now should be to prepare for the upturn and increase margins
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CommentBuilding buys a pint: Eckersley O’Callaghan
We’re in the King’s Head in Islington, north London, on the day that Britain officially declared its deepest recession since the thirties over – by a whisker
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FeaturesThe big squeeze: 5 taxes that could affect your business
A special feature on small businesses’ struggle with bureaucracy begins with Roxane McMeeken’s look at five ways HM Revenue and Customs is squeezing more money out of its customers
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FeaturesGrant Shapps: A young man in a hurry
Come the summer, Grant Shapps is probably going to be in charge of housing policy. And he’s got an awful lot of policy to get through, from a root-and-branch rethink of planning to a radical overhaul of the HCA. Joey Gardiner asked the questions, Tim Foster took the photos
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CommentBrian Green: This is your new playground
Relying on clients to create demand won’t work any more – construction firms need new, sophisticated business models that tie their profit to places rather than one-off projects
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FeaturesTwist and shout: RMJM’s Abu Dhabi Capital Gate tower
RMJM’s Capital Gate tower in Abu Dhabi leans at a stomach-lurching 18º, making it a project that largely consisted of geometrical and structural problems – not least of which was finding out where the building had moved to each morning
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Rise in UAE clients calling in bonds
Lawyers have warned that contractors in the UAE could be hit with bills of millions of pounds owing to the rise in the number of developers calling in performance bonds
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Activity falls at slowest rate in two years
UK construction activity fell at its slowest rate for almost two years last month, according to the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
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Latest construction appointments: 05 February 2010
Lafarge Plasterboard has appointed Adrian Forbes its sales and commercial manager to lead Lafarge’s western region sales team
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NewsBAM for Bucks
The first phase of Buckinghamshire New University’s campus has been completed by BAM Construct
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Aukett threatens to make Halabi legal row personal
Architect will seek to make billionaire businessman liable if his companies fail to pay £500,000
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Public sector bosses raise fears over infrastructure funding
Almost three-quarters of public sector executives in the UK have said that a lack of funding and government ineffectiveness are the greatest obstacles facing infrastructure projects
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NewsPutting the beds in Beds
Anjulita Court care home in Bedford has just been completed for MHA in association with the Ibbett Trust
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CommentTube PPP: Mind the gaping hole
A £1.75bn chasm has emerged between what Transport for London is willing to pay to upgrade the Northern line and what Tube Lines is willing to do the work for. Could this be the end of the line for the tube PPP?
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Lead times: July - September 2009
There’s good news for anybody waiting impatiently for structural steel – it’s arriving three weeks earlier. Other packages are pretty static, and once again none have increased
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Demolition firm Brown and Mason hit by 50% slump in profit
Turnover and profit have fallen heavily at demolition firm Brown and Mason for the year ended 30 April 2009
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T Clarke bullish
M&E contractor T Clarke said it would beat its expected earnings in its final year results,expected in March
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McInerney struggles
Irish housebuilder McInerney Holdings has announced that it completed just 756 homes in the UK and Ireland in 2009, compared with 1,359 units the previous year.