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Just the job
Kenyan Sohail Alam of M&E firm CommTech only came to England five years ago – but he's already set to go global with his mechanical engineering skills
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Green ideas, grey areas
Carbon-counting websites, environmental profiles, tax breaks for investors in renewable energy… Good ideas? Well, only if they're thought up by the right people
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Featuresshh … Abalos & Herreros' dreamlike library is too good for words
The Usera Library in Madrid doesn't seem entirely real – more like a building you might encounter in a dream.
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NewsBrave new homes
To date, off-site manufacture has been more about hype than homes. But with the Housing Corporation pushing standardised housetypes, the time may be ripe for the production-line solution to revolutionise the market. We assemble the story
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Norris to be confirmed as Jarvis chairman on Tuesday
Conservative London mayoral candidate Steven Norris will be confirmed as chairman of embattled support services group Jarvis next Tuesday.
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UK firms set for Iraq talks
British contractors are preparing for two international conferences next month in Jordan, focusing on the reconstruction of Iraq.
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Foreign Office boxes clever
Foreign Office Architects has won a competition to design the BBC's £22m music centre at White City, west London. The project, dubbed the Music Box, is expected to open in 2006. It will house the BBC Symphony Orchestra and provide two state-of-the-art studios. It will also have an audience capacity ...
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Subcontractors team up to recover Ballast losses
Subcontractors owed large sums by failed contractor Ballast are continuing to join forces in an attempt to recover their money.
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NewsPrescott gives go-ahead to Shard of Glass
London Bridge Tower, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, has finally been granted planning approval by deputy prime minister John Prescott.
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Sainsburys sues WSP over store damage
Supermarket chain J Sainsbury has issued a writ against consulting engineer WSP over a superstore on the south coast of England.
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NewsCurtain up
England's oldest working theatre, the Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire, has been restored at a cost of £1.5m. The original Georgian auditorium, built in 1788, has been redecorated to appear as it did two centuries ago.The redesign was by Allen Tod Architecture of Leeds, the refurbishment by ...
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Four firms bank on Barclays tower fit-out
Four contractors are competing for the £25m fit-out of the 34-storey Barclays Bank tower in London Docklands.
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RICS: Homes getting noisier
Noise pollution in houses has increased over the past 80 years as they have become smaller, claims the RICS.
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John Richards, champion of prefabrication, dies aged 73
Richards was chairman of multidisciplinary consultant Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall & Partners in Edinburgh from 1983 to 1986.
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DTI helps foreign workers avoid exploitation
The Government has published guidance for Portuguese workers in the UK explaining their working rights amid concerns that some of them have been exploited.
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NewsCentre stage
Gaunt Francis Architects has unveiled its £7m refurbishment of Richard Seifert's 1960s London landmark, Centrepoint. Ground-floor curtain walling and a smart reception area replace an open ramp descending into a car park. The forecourt over Tottenham Court Road Tube station is to be transformed into a public square. The client ...
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CommentWonders & blunders
Simon Allford raises a cheer for a much-loved oval but is unable to celebrate one of the world's most famous squares
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The good book
Professional negligence claims are often of the 'there but for the grace of God' variety, so a guide on the subject may help you swing things in your favour