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Jeremy Paxton is a property developer with a sense of fun – as you might guess from this holiday home estate, which puts chocolate box cottages next to hard-core modernist homes. But there's a price to pay, as we find out …
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David Curry
A report by the Housing Corporation offers some tantalising ideas on low cost home ownership schemes. But does the government have the imagination to follow them through?
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FeaturesThe x factor
Squeezing a million extra visitors into New York would be an Olympian feat, but the team bidding against London to host the 2012 games has developed a race advantage. They call it the Olympic X
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Just a few complicated points
It's not easy, but firms negotiating PFI deals must identify the risks they're running. Here's how to go about the job
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Who've you been seeing?
Natural justice and adjudication can be a jealous and suspicious couple. But a recent case has led to guidelines that could smooth out some of the tensions
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FeaturesGoing down a storm
The Met Office has just moved all its staff and forecasting equipment to a purpose built facility in balmy Devon – without a second's break in its service. We found out how the project team made a tricky transition into a summer breeze
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NewsVery enlightening
HOK Conservation has completed an £8m restoration of the oldest part of the British Museum. Completed in 1827 the King's Library – one of the noblest neoclassical halls in Europe – has been converted into a gallery. The hall, which houses a permanent exhibition devoted to the enlightenment, has ...
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Three Skanska UK directors get the chop in reshuffle
Skanska UK has slimmed down its management board from 10 to seven to create a tighter-knit team.
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Surveyors win design rights
Building and quantity surveyors are to be allowed to be involved in the building design process after an amendment to a European directive.
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University towns set to benefit from Egan
The expansion of university towns, such as Cambridge and Edinburgh is one of the ideas under consideration in a government review chaired by Sir John Egan.
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Designers waste one-sixth of their time
Architecture, engineering and construction firms waste nearly one-sixth of their time as a result of using outdated design software, a report claimed this week.
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Most new buildings breach Part L rules
An industry expert has claimed that up to two-thirds of new commercial buildings are not tested for airtightness as required by the government's building regulations on energy conservation.
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NHS report warns of hospital funding gap
A £5bn development programme of more than 150 healthcare projects in greater London could be undermined by funding and planning problems.
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NewsSuspended aviation
An extension to the RAF Museum in Hendon, north London, will be opened by the Queen on 17 December, the centenary of man's first powered flight. It will house the key aircraft of the past 100 years. The £7.2m building, which has an area of 3000 m2 was ...
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Chris Evans, BBC project director, dies aged 43
The former project director of the £400m BBC Broadcasting House building, Chris Evans, died of cancer this week, aged 43.
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Wrekin and AYH hire bosses
Private contractor Wrekin and project management consultant AYH have appointed senior executives.
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Wonders & blunders
Dawn Gibbins is drawn to the natural light of Belfast City Hall, but the gloom of industrial sheds has her voting with her feet
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A reasonable bill
This was one of the final decisions of Judge Bowsher QC before his retirement from the bench. Having found in favour of the defendants, he then had to consider the question of costs. Both defendants sought their costs on an indemnity basis.