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NewsBroker's notes: What the Sex Pistols can teach us
"I yam an antichrist! I yam an anarchist!" I'm not really either, of course.
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Crack house crackdown
Didn't think the Queen's Speech was radical enough? Get a load of John Prescott's housing bill – it aims to tackle many of the more egregious abuses
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FeaturesMission: impossible
Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Take apart an entire British Army town in Kosovo and put it up again in war-torn Basra, Iraq, in time for new year. Sounds tough? We report on who was up to the task without self-destructing …
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Viva Bambi!
Nick Henchie's claim that the Be Collaborative contract offers little in the way of practical assistance is given short shrift by one of the contract's writers
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FeaturesTo the bastion
Francisco Mangado's concert hall in Pamplona has received rapturous applause from the locals … well, all except the odd terrorist. We take a peek into a peculiar tale
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Et tu, Simon?
You'd think a construction lawyer embarking on his own building work would draw on his experience to ensure that he didn't end up at a well-known creek. Well …
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Rolfe Judd plans £250m Cambridge revamp
Architect Rolfe Judd is working on a giant masterplan to redevelop 12 ha around Cambridge railway station at a cost of more than £250m.
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NewsQueen of kiosks
Italian architects Riccardo Bianchini and Federica Lusiardi have fought off 211 entries to win a RIBA competition to design a structure for Cleopatra's Kiosk on the north bank of the Thames in London. The other two designs on the shortlist were by Bath-based practice Rees Smyth Vermont and Aberdeen-based ...
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NewsComing in to land
Reid Architecture has unveiled the first images of a landmark air traffic control tower at Edinburgh Airport for BAA Scottish Airports. The 57 m high tower is to be located on a main access road and will have a car-free zone around it to safeguard against potential terrorist bomb blasts. ...
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Rail work is the fast track to growth
Half of the fastest growing construction firms in the UK are rail contractors, according to The Sunday Times.
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Back from the dead
Just when it appeared to be gently ebbing away, construction's strategic forum has sprung back to life.
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Multiplex and Ferrovial in £250m PFI bid
Two foreign contractors have made the shortlist for a £250m PFI hospital project in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
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McAslan enters Africa with Morocco museum
Architect John McAslan + Partners has expanded into North Africa with the design of a multicultural centre and an archaeological museum in Morocco.
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£30,000 fine for site death
A property developer has had to pay out a total of £40,000 after a fireball on site left a worker with horrific burns from which he later died.
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NewsFlagging enthusiasm
Victorious England rugby players were greeted with a huge St George flag unfurled on the front of a construction site during their World Cup celebration parade in central London on Monday. The 94 × 16 m flag hung in front of the £53m West 8 site on Regent Street, which ...
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You have to agree to disagree
This is a decision of the Court of Appeal. Wilson maintained both during the adjudication and before Judge MacKay (at a hearing to enforce that decision at first instance) that the contract that was the subject of the adjudication had been made not with him personally but with a company, ...
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The missing millions
There was little to reassure Ballast's subcontractors at Tuesday's creditors' meeting.
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Appointments
Housebuilders Weybridge-based Persimmon Homes South East has appointed Mike Ackling health and safety adviser for the South-east.Eamonn McInerney has joined Charles Church South Midlands as regional sales director.Wates Developments has promoted Jonny Wates to group strategic marketing director. Neil Simpson joins as sales and marketing director and Peter Gurr, ...
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Keller warns of 10% profit shortfall
Construction services group Keller issued a profit warning this week.