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CommentHansom Self-harmers
BDP masterplans its own office out of existence, Banyard鈥檚 managing director gets himself into trouble on the domestic front and who knows what QSs will do to themselves in the name of pop art?
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CommentOurTube: Inside Gleeds TV
So what happens when a bunch of construction consultants suddenly find themselves running a television station. And why would they ever want to?
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CommentFinding Foster
Type his name into any search engine and you鈥檒l come up with some unusual takes on Foster鈥檚 work. Chlo毛 McCulloch finds out what he means to a variety of branding gurus, expats and geeks
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Fight fire with fire
The Local Government Association has called for an urgent review of building regulations, following the deaths of four fire-fighters in Warwickshire and wants to see sprinklers fitted to all new buildings.
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Melville Dundas Ltd (in receivership) and Others vs George Wimpey UK Ltd and Others
This is the first time that the HGCRA has reached the House of Lords. The dispute here, which related to the payment part of that legislation, highlighted the tension between an employer鈥檚 payment obligations and the impact on those obligations of the contractor going into administration. Here, on 2 May ...
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CommentFlogging a dead parrot
Here鈥檚 a trip down memory lane 鈥� back to the early seventies and Monty Python鈥檚 Flying Circus. But what could a hilarious, abusive, surreal sketch show possibly have to do with the modern construction industry?
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Multiplex Constructions vs PC Harrington
Multiplex is facing a legal battle with contractor PC Harrington over a 拢45m concrete works contract
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CommentNorman鈥檚 conquests
星空传媒 takes great pride in being the first journal to celebrate British architecture鈥檚 life peers, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, on the 40th anniversary of the break-up of Team 4 and the founding of their practices.
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CommentChips with everything
聽Instead of paying thousands to generate electricity on site, we should be incorporating energy storage into buildings. And Bill Watts says we need spend peanuts to do it
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Hill International
Christmas may be six weeks away but this lot is already getting into the festive spirit thanks to numerous bottles of Lapin Kulta, a beer brewed in Lapland.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Two takes on modernity this week, one a persuasive discourse on industry and craft, the other a 鈥榗rude and inarticulate鈥� shout
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Back issues Preserving charming rusticity from the onslaught of utilitarian townies
November 1880 鈥� Hamlets into suburbs
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Tell us all your secrets
Did you know that the Freedom of Information Act could apply to your PFI contracts, and that all the obvious reasons why it might be a bad idea to disclose such information may be without force?
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CommentWhat the war taught us
The industry launched a campaign three years ago to persuade the government to junk plans for a planning gain supplement and, lo and behold, it succeeded. Now we need to learn the lessons
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Spread the risk
My first thought on reading your article on the 拢1bn defence training academy in St Athan, south Wales, (26 October, page 15) was 鈥渘ever put all your eggs in one basket鈥�.
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CommentRunning the RIBA
What does it mean to be RIBA president? Do you get to do anything? Is there anything you can learn from your predecessors? Sunand Prasad is about to find out
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CommentThe many lives of Richard Rogers
He may have made his name as an architectural disemboweller, but he has cemented it with a constantly evolving style and widening interests. Tarek Merlin assesses his career
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CommentStrong language
What Roger Madelin calls King鈥檚 Cross protesters, why Constructing Excellence would like to learn Japanese swear words 鈥� and what is that terrifying noise coming from the bathroom?