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CommentBuilding buys a pint for KBC Peel Hunt
Chosen watering hole: The Gallery pub in the CityAmbience: The handful of stockbrokers not on a foreign beach ...
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CommentMy digital life: Mark Dudek
Mark Dudek lives his digital life as a skilled assassin in medieval Jerusalem. Or a star international footballer. Of course, he really only got the PS3 for the kids …
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NHBC reacts to slump by laying off one in 10 staff
30% of site-based inspectors to be made redundant as construction rates continue to plummet
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Uncertainty over Oriental City
The £120m Oriental City mixed-use scheme in Colindale, north London, is facing further uncertainty after the development manager behind the scheme said it would continue to delay paying for the site.
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Housing Corporation criticised by inquiry into Ujima collapse
The Housing Corporation “failed to take decisive action” that could have prevented Ujima from becoming the first housing association to go bust, a report into the affair has found.
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NewsIt’s not last orders yet
Hammerson’s Bishops Place scheme in Hackney, east London, was dealt a blow last week after planning officers voted to defer a decision on consent.
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Funny business
I read with interest your article about the formation of the new Construction Council to be chaired by John McDonough (11 July, page 13).
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Card tricks
When I applied for my CSCS technical managers card, I arrived at the test centre 15 minutes before my appointment time along with everybody else.
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A steely correction
I should like to clear up any confusion that the “Spotlight on steel” article (11 July, page 64) may have caused
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CommentManufacturing consent
Democracy is in trouble because politicians tell us what we want, then labour mightily to make sure we get it. Much the same is true of architecture, says Robert Adam
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CommentHansom: things can only get bitter
Disappointment all round this week as Christmas parties are called off, summer parties downgraded, guests turn up to wait in endless queues and some escape to Mongolia in whatever they can afford
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NewsNew York: Sheppard Robson's York House in Waterloo
This is the latest image of Sheppard Robson’s proposed redevelopment of York House next to Waterloo station in London
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FeaturesAs bad as it gets: Building the UK embassy in Harare
With violence, poverty, hyperinflation and disease halting work at every turn, how is it even possible to operate in Zimbabwe? Martin Spring asked those building a new UK embassy in its capital
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FeaturesGIA: Is this the UK’s grooviest building surveyor?
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker – if they’re after second careers, they could do worse than apply to become building surveyors at GIA. Alex Smith talks to seven employees who all have wildly different backgrounds. Photography by Steve Schofield
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Willmott Dixon to build £16m academy
Willmott Dixon has beaten Kier to become preferred bidder on a £16m school in the government’s academies programme, it is understood.
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NewsHere's an idea - No 7
Materials firm Aardvark is selling concrete that allows rainwater to pass directly through it to improve flood drainage in urban areas.
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Royal Bam Group to rebrand HBG and Edmund Nuttall
Dutch-owned contractor HBG will rebrand to become Bam Construct UK later this year.
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NewsSharewatch: did you buy shares in Barratt?
The summer holiday tumbleweed has well and truly begun blowing through the Square Mile.
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Boris ditches design advisory board
Boris Johnson has axed his design advisory body and incorporated it into the London Development Agency.