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CommentRevolution!
It鈥檚 chaos for construction in the Middle East. So what鈥檚 the outlook in the longer term?
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CommentO is for ownership, P is for performance
Zone out whenever someone uses legal jargon with you? Here鈥檚 a handy bluffer鈥檚 guide with a look at ownership and performance
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CommentLondon鈥檚 the place to be
The London commercial sector is strong, but the regions are still weak
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Let's not be hasty
Unfortunately the knee-jerk reaction to a crisis described in 鈥淩ok and Connaught force repairs in-house鈥� (11 February, page 12), is typical of housing associations, and is driving the provision of an in-house repairs team.
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Network rail shake-up: light at the end of the tunnel
Roy McNulty鈥檚 interim report on how to get value for money from the railway sector suggests that train operating companies are set to be turned into quasi developers
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CommentCommunity spirited
I am constantly surprised by the kindness of strangers. This week builders and designers inspire each other, MPs battle climate change and a kindly planning officer keeps kids out of trouble
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Use your common sense
I found Alan Harris鈥� concerns that adjudicators rarely seek advice from specialists on matters of law or programming interesting (11 February, page 25).
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CommentA fine romance: Cabe and the Design Council
Some may grumble about the match but bringing Cabe and the Design Council together might be the best thing to have happened to design for 60 years
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint ...for Mivan
The Cittie of Yorke in High Holborn was the venue this week, where Mivan鈥檚 business development manager Alasdair Donnachie and marketing manager Lee Campbell discussed the hazards of sport and bad behaviour at football matches
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CommentMichael Gove: The bad boy in school
The education secretary got his knuckles rapped for bad-temperedly tearing up the BSF rule book. But it won鈥檛 stop him getting his way
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CommentBack to basics with professional indemnity claims
There may be any number of clever ways to reduce the risk of professional indemnity claims. But why not start with the simplest?
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CommentOpen mike: One for all
Each profession in this industry has at least one body to represent it, which just widens the gulfs between us all. What if we set up a collective body instead?
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CommentMore inflation worries as plant hire prices bounce back
Data from ONS shows year-on-year 2.2% rise in Q4 2010
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CommentA new-look Middle East: threat or opportunity?
Could a rise in people power prompt a shift in what is built in the Middle East?
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Comment3XN to design Swedbank's Stockholm headquarters
V-shaped structure will house 2,500 office workers
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CommentVinci appoints regional director for Yorkshire
Keith Shivers will take charge of nine BSF contracts worth 拢170m
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CommentTime for a construction revolution?
SMEs are getting squeezed by the big boys and no-one鈥檚 taking up their cause
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CommentArchitectural and engineering firms see drop in turnover in 2010
Turnover is now 8% less than the peak in 2008
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CommentCabe - why it must keep the name
News this week that design quango Cabe鈥檚 name may ultimately be up for grabs in its long-heralded merger with the Design Council prompts that age-old question 鈥� what鈥檚 in a name?