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Features
Seven wonders of islamic design
From sandbags to soaring skyscrapers, this year’s Aga Khan Awards are a timely reminder of the diversity of architecture in the Muslim world
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Falling water 2004
Welcome to the most startling house in Britain … where the front door is a lily pond, the bedrooms are beneath a river and the rooms are separated by waterfalls. Ken Shuttleworth takes us for a paddle around his design and shows us his original concept sketches
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CommentThe theory of black holes
he phrase ‘defined provisional sum’ in the JCT98 contracts may lead employers to believe that they have price certainty. In fact, they have nothing of the sort
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The prongs of doom
Time and again adjudications end in failure because the courts detect bias. Here’s another case where a botched job inevitably results in a load of wasted money
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Romania revamps its image
Romania aims to join the European Union in 2007 and is trying hard to attract foreign investment – but there are few large black bats still flapping around
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UK shares Europe’s guilt
As reported in Building (19 November, page 15), Alan Wood has exposed the unfair practices that European governments use to exclude British companies from their public sector contracts.
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A BTEC in boredom
Having enjoyed a reasonably successful career in construction and having a 16-year-old son with the prospect of 10 good GCSEs and no particular idea what he wants to do, I persuaded him to apply for a BTEC in construction.
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FeaturesThere now follows a special announcement..
.. regarding the sale of Bovis Lend Lease, presented by Adrian Chamberlain, chief executive officer for development and construction in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa …
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NewsMayor calls for denser housing
The London section of the Thames Gateway growth area has the potential to accommodate up to 120,000 houses, according to London mayor Ken Livingstone,
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Building writers scoop journalism awards
Building reporter George Hay has been named International Building Press journalist of the year in central London last week.
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NewsCalder comfort
Plans have been announced for the second phase of a £30m regeneration scheme in Brighouse, West Yorkshire. Developed by Binks Vertical and designed by Cartwright Pickard Architects, the scheme is located on Mill Royd Island – a peninsula site located between the River Calder, the Calder and Hebble Navigation Canal ...
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Bovis Homes delayed nine months on Yorkshire scheme
Housebuilder has yet to issue revised completion date for 227-home development after catalogue of setbacks
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Wonders & blunders
RIBA president-elect Jack Pringle vows that a former icon will rise again but would rather see a Holborn hotel buried without trace
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NewsRaven Mount to buy £37m landbank from own director
Purchase of Anton Bilton’s property assets will increase his shareholding to 58% and make him chairman
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Connaught writes off £8.4m after restructure
Connaught, a social housing fit-out firm listed on the alternative investment market, this week wrote down £8.4m of costs after it quit the commercial sector.
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NewsUnions attack CITB over £5m deficit in CSCS scheme
Unions furious at training board’s administration of skills cards after accounts are leaked showing big deficit
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Hochtief quizzed over ‘cheap labour’ claim
GERMAN contractor Hochtief has been accused of basing bid costs for a project in Scotland on the use of cheap Romanian workers
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Aukett suspends its shares during takeover talks
Aukett Group, the only UK listed architect, suspended its shares on Tuesday after it announced it was in talks to buy rival Fitzroy Robinson.