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FeaturesBeginning of a beautiful friendship?
What's this? Surely it can't be true? The private and public sectors working harmoniously side by side on construction projects? We report on what John Prescott's regeneration cash is doing for workers on both sides of the fence
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Regeneration game
Paul France and Steve Glands from recruitment consultants Hays Montrose discuss the regeneration jobs boom …
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What might have been
If you feel you've lost out on a chance in life through somebody else's fault, you can go to court and watch the judge put a cash figure on it
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The lonely life of the builder
There is, I think, no simple answer as to why construction workers are more likely than others to take their own lives (16 January, page 11). It seems this is not just a UK problem – it may be a universal one in this industry.
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Credit where it's due
We were delighted to see two of our bridge projects, Thames Gateway Bridge and Wembley Bridge, were given coverage (16 February, pages 13 and 15). We would be even more delighted if Halcrow, the engineer that we are working with, was also given credit – particularly as it ...
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C'mon Rudi
Two points arising from Rudi Klein's wishlist ("C'mon everybody", 23 January, page 49).
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A Cambridge correction
With regard to your news story on page 13 of your 30 January issue, "Sir Robert McAlpine in row over £21m Cambridge Lab", there was an adjudication in early 2003 between the University of Cambridge and Sir Robert McAlpine relating to delays to the project, which was settled at the ...
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Riddles and fiddles
You may not be able to find a T5 worker who made £55,000, or explain where Dennis Lenard's 300,000 workers are hiding, but you can get a dodgy CSCS card tomorrow
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NewsDesigner diplomacy
Rem Koolhaas' practice, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, has opened its Dutch Embassy in Berlin. Located on the Rolandufer in the former east Berlin, the structure is an expression of Dutch "openness": one continuous promenade meanders through the eight-level building, a single space excavated out of a cube of generic ...
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Scots parliament inquiry told of meeting with Bovis boss
Former Bovis Lend Lease boss John Anderson met Scottish Office chief architect just weeks before Bovis was awarded the construction management role on the Scottish parliament, it emerged at the Fraser inquiry this week.
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Prescott to spend £155m on North
John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, this week unveiled proposals to spend £155m on improving the quality of life on the Tyne and the Mersey.
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Need more workers? Give us more work
The construction Confederation has called on the government to maintain its present level of capital spending on construction despite the sector's labour shortages.
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NewsDrug-inspired architecture
The £3.6m Institute of Pharmaceutical Innovation at the University of Bradford has been opened by Lord Sainsbury. The research faculty, which was designed by Yorkshire architect Rance Booth & Smith, is arranged in two linear wings joined by an atrium.
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Six vie for Milton Keynes millennium village
Six top housebuilders have been shortlisted to build the 1850 homes that will make up the Millennium Community project at Oak Grove, Milton Keynes.
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NewsWe love you
Building Design Partnership has become the darling of the Dutch public with its Armada residential development s'Hertogenbosch. It was voted by the Dutch public as the most loved building erected in the Netherlands in the past three years. The £30m scheme fits 255 apartments into five pairs of buildings overlooking ...
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NewsTerminal 5 hotel ready for take-off
BAA Lynton, the commercial property division of BAA, this week launched its Terminal 5 hotel at London Heathrow. The 600-bedroom hotel is the only one to be built as part of the development.It will be the second hotel at the airport to have a physical link to a terminal building.The ...