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Ucatt steps up ODA battle
Union takes complaints over ‘sordid’ self-employment at Olympics to Treasury and Revenue
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Services
Gardiner & Theobald looks at recent changes in the rapidly evolving and increasingly high-tech world of services, from engineering services to lifts and IT systems
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FeaturesBouygues’ battle for Britain
As the 10th anniversary of the French company’s entry into the UK approaches, its managing director tells Mark Leftly about his plans to expand all over the country
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Features‘They all hate me!’
There are some things that the fledgling project manager can’t learn at university – such as how to deal with punch-ups or the nagging feeling that your team couldn’t care less. Debika Ray seeks some therapeutic advice
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Foreman Roberts is bought out
Building services consultancy Foreman Roberts has been bought out by its management team.
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FeaturesPhase one, take two
Young Mancunians were out in force at Building’s second networking party last Wednesday
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Comment
Do we need more housing?
Your leader (29 June, page 3) called for a national hearts-and-minds campaign to explain the need for extra housing. It might help if you first questioned whether there really is such a need.
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Quite a bind
Your last editorial had a number of good suggestions for increasing the rate of housebuilding. I have another – easier removal of covenants restricting development. I have a large site adjacent to my house that has planning permission for a detached house. My neighbours have a covenant that restricts each ...
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Comment
Work jollies
I was interested to read your recent Building Buys a Pint with the networking organisation, Forum for the Built Environment (29 July, page 34-35). The topics ranged from the smoking ban to the hirsute nature of women in property and construction.
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CommentThe TA needs you …
Great article about the Territorial Army and the insight into what it offers. I recently joined and wish I had done so years ago.
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FeaturesWater fight
The Nirah freshwater aquarium will provide vital scientific research and – at four times the size of the Eden Project – is set to be a huge tourism boost for Bedford. So why has it had to endure an almighty struggle to get planning consent?
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CommentTurning the tables
Things naturally fall apart, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun sticking them back together, as we demonstrate in many different ways this week, from dips in the briney to wooden hats
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NewsThe plight of the ‘new poor’
Here are 10 measures that we must implement if young people are to have any hope of buying homes
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NewsA green oasis
A team including consulting engineer Buro Happold has won a competition to design a government district in Tripoli, the capital of Libya.
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CommentGordon Brown vs the housing crisis
There wasn’t too much we hadn’t heard before in Gordon Brown’s preview of the next Queen’s speech, and it was pretty short on detail, but the message came over loud and clear: if his predecessor’s top priorities were education, education, education, his are housing, housing and housing.
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NewsHackney rebuffed
Hackney council looks like it has been defeated in its attempt to prevent superdense development spreading to the east London borough.