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  • News

    RIBA lobbies hard for top-up tuition fee exemptions

    2005-05-13T09:00:00Z

    Architectural body fears that charges for five-year degree will freeze out all but the affluent from the profession.

  • News

    The China trip

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Ten days, five cities and the most astonishing construction market in the world

  • Shanghai’s Maglev train, which takes an improbable seven minutes to travel 16 km
    Features

    The China trip

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    China is in the process of building the biggest economy in the world at a pace that is hard to bend your head around – this is a country where planning approval can take a few hours and a town containing 11 universities can be built in a couple of ...

  • CCTV Tower in Beijing
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    Bao Guangjian: man of steel

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Bao Guangjian is China’s most innovative steel specialist and the driving force behind Beijing’s impossible-to-build television centre – and even he is a little concerned about whether it’ll stay up … we went to meet him in Shenzhen

  • Features

    Local lowdown: Scottish Highlands

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Robert Smith of Hays Construction & Property reports on the Scottish Highlands

  • Features

    Appointments

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers

  • Features

    Just about holding up

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Last year, construction output grew more than the UK economy as a whole, but the outlook over the next few years is flatter than Patagonia. Experian Business Strategies crunches the numbers

  • News

    Willmott sees PFI entry as ‘main challenge’ for future

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    With profit passing £10m, the Willmott Dixon boss is confident he will avoid the losses incurred at other big names

  • Comment

    An admission

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    The answer to the future energy needs of the UK is to be found in the power plants of Woking. Or should that be the wind farms of Denmark? Hang on …

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Every vote is sacred, every vote is grand – as is demonstrated by the lengths to which Charles Clarke’s wife went to win a few for her husband

  • Miliband: Will have his work cut out resolving feuds between councils and housing firms
    News

    New man at the ministry walks into row over PPG3

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Argument over planning gain will be high on the agenda for David Miliband, Prescott’s lieutenant at the ODPM

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    ODPM doesn’t rule out ‘Solent Gateway’

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    The ODPM has denied reports that it is set to authorise a 140,000-home housing growth area between Southampton and Portsmouth.

  • News

    Tory gains reflect discontent

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    The government’s plans for building up to 1.1m homes in the South-east by 2016 could be undermined by Conservative election victories in the four housing growth areas.

  • Daniel Libeskind
    Features

    Daniel Libeskind

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    As rumours circulate of year-long delays and complete redesigns at Ground Zero, we talk to the man responsible about why his long, bitter struggle with rival architects, the New York press and the site owner (among others) is a sign that things are going pretty well …

  • Features

    2711 blocks, 6 million deaths

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Berlin’s Jewish memorial uses abstract art on a monumental scale to commemorate the victims of the Nazi Holocaust

  • Rudi Klein
    Comment

    Push!

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    The Construction Act needs more radical reforms than are being considered in the present consultation document. Here’s what we should be lobbying for

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    Try this

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Did you hear that cry for help from small builder Alan Danieli last month? I did, and here is my humble suggestion for dealing with domestic disputes

  • Comment

    A dirty story

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Taking on a contaminated site is risky because it’s hard to be sure what’s down there. Now environmental consultants have found a way to manage the risk better

  • Comment

    A difficulty with defects

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    In a situation using a JCT contract where a retention is being held and the certificate of making good defects has not been issued, but latent defects have arisen after the expiry of the defects liability period, is it within the employer’s powers to withhold the retention?

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    Time’s up

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Can an owner insist on the works being completed where the contractor says he is entitled to an extension of time – but the contract administrator disagrees – and then levy liquidated damages?