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FeaturesDigs with a difference
Students won’t live in grotty bedsits any more. And with 1 million of them needing somewhere to live, it’s a market you’d be wise to swot up on – just leave the kids to add their own personal touches …
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FeaturesEat your heart out, Jamie
One part the Naked Chef, two parts Ready, Steady, Cook, Bovis Lend Lease’s away day at a cookery school might have been a recipe for disaster – but turned out dead pukka. Eleanor Harding put her apron on …
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CommentDo you have breakdown cover?
Rolls-Royce didn’t take out joint-names insurance to cover construction of its new plant. When a leaking pipe caused £400,000 of damage, it insisted the policy wouldn’t have covered negligence. Not everyone agreed
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The lesser-spotted contract
Last month, Tony Bingham said construction lawyers would agree with the Court of Appeal’s ruling in SWI vs P&I. Well, Stuart Pemble doesn’t, and that is because he doesn’t really believe in fixed-price deals
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FeaturesDivine mystery
What’s the secret of this baffling monolith of raw concrete that stands in a field near Cologne?
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CommentAt full blast
A turbulent week as Richard McCarthy delivers a stormy press briefing, a furious homeowner takes his revenge on rogue builders, and abseilers are dropped in to lighten things up a bit …
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CommentUndercover recruitment
Following on from your article on unscrupulous headhunters (15 June, page 42), we had an interesting experience with a recruitment agency recently.
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Not so robust
The Robust Details scheme is held up by many as a sure-fire, hassle-free way to comply to Part E.
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Small packages
I received the 2007 UK construction industry Key Performance Indicators pack by post. The CD-Rom and guide booklet together weigh 116 grams and will fit in an A5 jiffy bag.
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The modern way
To meet targets in the housing green paper for increasing the UK’s housing supply, modern methods of construction (MMC) will have to be considered on a wider scale.
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FeaturesSunand Prasad
Politician and academic – not to mention architect – the new RIBA president certainly has the CV to tackle the top post in British architecture. But does he have the policies?
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FeaturesHousebuilders or planners - who should set sustainability targets?
An almighty row has been brewing between local authorities, who want to set their own sustainability targets, and developers who claim this is causing chaos. The two met last Tuesday to thrash out their differences...
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NewsFirms under fire as number of apprenticeships drops
50,000 applications expected for just 7,000 places - Demand for degree places also up
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Listed warehouse
Work has started on the refurbishment of the grade II-listed St George’s warehouse in Huddersfield.
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Balfour on framework
Balfour Beatty has been appointed to Barking and Dagenham council’s civil engineering and highways framework agreement.
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Willmotts 9m school
Willmott Dixon is to build a £9m special educational needs school in Coalville for Leicestershire council.
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Tough job for Gleeson
Gleeson Building is to refurbish Crystal House in Preston, voted the city’s ugliest building.
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More Redrow plots
Redrow has bought an extra 163 plots on an 11-acre site to expand its £28m Priory Fields project in Church Gresley, Derbyshire.