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    Solution in sight at Bath Spa

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    The troubled £26m Bath Spa project moved a little closer to completion after client, contractor and architect agreed on a solution to its peeling paintwork

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    Tile firm attacks 'handcrafted' label

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Europe's oldest handmade roof tile manufacturer, Keymer, has warned it may be put out of business over a row between rooftile manufacturers about the definition of "handcrafted" roof tiles.

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    Housing Futures: The next 20 years …

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    A major feature series assessing radical changes that will affect the housing sector in the next 20 years starts next week in Building.

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    Arsenal's other double

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Arsenal Football Club announced on Monday that it had secured funding for this £357m, 60,000-seater stadium at Ashburton Grove. The ground, which will have twice the capacity of the Gunners' Highbury venue, is due to be completed in time for the start of the 2006/07 season.

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    Ken Yeang on shortlist for European Central Bank HQ

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Ken Yeang is on a shortlist of three architects to design the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany.

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    Foxell's RIBA planning pledge

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Simon Foxell, a candidate for RIBA president, has said that if he is elected, the institute would run training courses for local planning officers.

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    Broker’s notes: Mysterious revival

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    By the time this most illuminating of columns has hit your desk, dear reader, Peter Andre should be well on his way to lighting up the singles charts with the rerelease of his 1990s pop anthem Mysterious Girl

  • Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Mike Driver bends a reverential knee to a Finnish church but makes the sign of the cross before a north London office block …

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    Pouring epoxy on troubled waters

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Beleaguered £26m Bath Spa project swims a little closer to finishing line as project team agree fresh paint solution

  • Comment

    You've been warned

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Your article "Click to Survive" (30 January, page 36) was thought-provoking and timely.

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    Marking your cards

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    George Brumwell’s hopes of saving lives by registering all foreign workers with the CSCS card scheme (13 February, page 14) is flawed.

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    Quantum theory

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Oh dear! John Redmond has missed the point again (19 December, page 45).

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    No excuses

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Your lead news article on 6 February, "Multiplex warned 'safety is a serious concern with PC Harrington'" highlights just how far we have to go.

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    Legalaid

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    This month, our legal experts delve into the mysteries of the NEC standard form, early warning and compensation, and look at whether you can sue a local authority that doesn't give you the job even though you entered the lowest bid

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    Workshop

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    In our IT products special this week, how you can avoid ever getting lost en route again, link up to the office via your hard hat, store what you jot down in your pen and make homework easy-peasy

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    Guarding your patch

    2004-02-26T00:00:00Z

    I can imagine how some of our readers will react to this month’s cover feature on the move by commercial developers into the residential sector. Some housebuilders will be outraged at the sheer brass neck of the Lipton family and their suggestion that housebuilding is so inefficient that it will ...

  • Features

    Factfile: February 2004

    2004-02-26T00:00:00Z

    The Christmas season didn't do much to dent Scottish planners' workload, with a total of 1244 units approved in December. In the housing associations table, Garston Urban Village scored a major approval, and Persimmon and George Wimpey made headway in the private sector.Approvals into the new year dwindled virtually across ...

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    Next up

    2004-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Commercial developers are limbering up, getting ready to take on the residential market – and if housebuilders don't watch out, they could soon find themselves on the ropes wondering what hit them.

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    Expert eye

    2004-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Show homes will be your shop window, says Andrew Smith, Berkeley Homes' first head of landscape design. A chartered landscape architect with a masters in landscape ecology, design and management, Smith was previously a director at landscape consultancy Woodhams.

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    Booy pockets cool £10m after Capita buys Symonds

    2004-02-20T00:00:00Z

    £29.9m acquisition of project manager puts outsourcing firm Capita into top 10 UK construction consultants