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Utopia – we're almost there
I enjoyed reading the "Not the Egan Review" (24 October, pages 42-49), which could go a long way to creating Utopia in the industry.
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To be remote, be intimate
In relation to your article "Good Morning, Vietnam" (5 September, pages 38-41), I would like to point out that many outsource companies are trying to produce information without knowledge or experience of the UK.
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Not in my name
I was less than impressed with your wild editing of my letter to make a politically correct point (7 November, page 35).
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Full marks for construction training
As a student at Loughborough University studying construction engineering management, I would like to comment on the article about construction students by Kate Allen (14 November, pages 44-47).
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Private space vs open plan
Paul Morrell ("Are you being served?", 17 October, page 41) commented that we ought to know how much well designed offices aid productivity.
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Broken homes
I wonder if the government is aware of the upheaval its new Home Condition Report for surveyors might generate.
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Sound and fury
I got the impression from your article "When walls have ears" (5 September, pages 56-57) that the industry was suggesting a radical new approach, but a method of robust standard details has been working successfully in Scotland for years under the term "deemed to satisfy".
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Legalised coupling
As we became a limited liability partnership in 2001 – admittedly one of the first – we were puzzled by James Bessey's claim (7 November) that LLPs became legal only in April 2003.
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NewsRogers' flight of fancy
BAA has unveiled this Richard Rogers Partnership design for a £50m control tower at Heathrow. At 87 m, it will be twice as high as the one it will replace. Arup is structural engineer, Amec is M&E contractor, Laing O'Rourke is handling the foundations, Mace is construction manager and Warings ...
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GMB starts property sell-off to cut debts
The heavily indebted GMB union is in talks over the sale of its headquarters in Wimbledon, south-west London, as part of a wider property review
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Home office labour agency
Training Board report shows that it was still failing to hit recruitment levels for ethnic workers.
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Prescott gives go-ahead to animal lab
Deputy prime minister John Prescott last week granted planning permission for a vivisection laboratory in Cambridge, overruling advice from an inspector.
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Steamy scene
This is the first phase of an office conversion at the Round Foundry at Holbeck, Leeds, a grade II-listed building. When the scheme is completed it will provide 1000 m2 of space for tenant SMC Gower Architects. The work has been carried out by Building Design Partnership. The Round Foundry ...
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NewsBuilding triumphs at 2003 magazine editors' awards
Building was this week named Britain's best-edited weekly business magazine.
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£99,000 fine for Hull deaths
A property development firm was last week fined £79,000 over breaches of health and safety legislation at a building in Hull that collapsed three years ago killing three men
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GVA Grimley adds muscle to project arm
Property adviser GVA Grimley has beefed up its project management division with the acquisition of Second London Wall.
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NewsThe big cover up
This crowd-pleasing glass roof is the centrepiece of BPR Architects' design for an extension to a Middlesex University building. The £6.5m development in Hendon, north London, will enclose an underused courtyard and provide an atrium for the main reception. BRP design has just received planning permission.
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NewsBeauty spot
Architect RMJM has been appointed to design and engineer three projects at Newcastle College worth £16m, including this £8.8m "beauty, sport and tourism" building. The practice will also renovate and extend the college's 1960s concert hall and the 19th-century Rye Hill House. The £18m Performance Academy is under construction ...
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QPC Homes sues structural engineer for £3.5m
QPC Homes is suing structural engineer Willis & Partners for £3.5m over a building conversion in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
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NewsFoster wins Hastings battle
Foster and Partners has been chosen by the Hastings and Bexhill Taskforce to draw up designs for a showcase development at Pelham Square in Hastings, East Sussex. The £50m scheme will have offices and a hotel in a commercial development centred around the large civic space in the square. ...