The Building Sports Desk
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Forget Sydney, it’s the construction Olympics
Construction has always been competitive, but some of its struggles have been truly Olympian. So, on your marks …
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Foster’s wobble lets in Libeskind
As usual, the critics were divided over Daniel Libeskind’s presentation. The skewed asymmetrical lines of his Spiral routine grated on traditionalists, who felt it lacked the grace and fluidity of traditional floor routines. They likened Libeskind’s performance to a pile of boxes tumbling – an accolade that would flatter few ...
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The never-ending story of Terminal 5
Legend has it that the unfortunate Greek messenger Phidippides collapsed and died of exhaustion after completing the first marathon. The team working on Heathrow’s Terminal 5, however, are more likely to die of old age before the £1bn project is finished: a decade on from the start line, not a ...
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Jarvis: The art of the graceful plunge
The undisputed king of the share dive – one of the most hotly contested events in the industry Olympics – has to be Jarvis, whose manager is Paris Moayedi. After concerns that Railtrack was looking for ways to peg back its margins, the firm blew the opposition away with a ...
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Wheel sails over obstacles
“Good afternoon and welcome to another exciting round of construction hurdles. The two competitors today started their careers as millennium projects?” “That’s right, Brian, both in honour of the three big zeros.”