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Europe鈥檚 catwalk
Norman, Zaha, Daniel, Cesar and many more of world architecture鈥檚 signature brands are flocking to Italy to put their stamp on the design capital of Europe
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A steady start to 2005
This month, Experian鈥檚 Business Strategies division records stable activity levels in most sectors and is cautiously optimistic about growth. But civil engineering is on an unpredictable see-saw 鈥�
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Sir Robert McAlpine leaps to top with 拢135m mall job
Bovis Lend Lease is knocked right out of monthly top 30 for January 鈥� but still hanging on to annual lead
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FeaturesTeam talk from England legend
Rob Andrew gave a motivational speech to a recent CIOB event - next date, the England dressing room.
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Steve Morgan
With Liverpool still ignoring his advances, the former Redrow boss is turning his attention to a new land-purchase venture. We meet a man throwing himself into his work 鈥�
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FeaturesGoing straight
Why John Laing Training has looked to prisons in an effort to help solve the skills shortage
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FeaturesMoney down the drain
This is the story of how it took six years, 拢40m and many public punch-ups between the council, Mowlem and Grimshaw to build a smallish public leisure amenity in Bath. And it鈥檚 still not built. We tell the story, and reports on Mowlem鈥檚 plan to put an end to it ...
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Specialist costs: Structural steel
With steel demand at an all-time high last year, David Cane, associate at Gardiner & Theobald, considers what鈥檚 next for the sector 鈥� plus David Sands of Bourne Steel gets a grilling
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Can paris be beaten?
The bookies, the population of Paris and the Queen of England all think that the French are about to add the 2012 Olympic Games to their sporting triumphs. We met the people behind the bid and found out why they鈥檙e so confident 鈥�
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FeaturesWhat鈥檚 unusual about this site?
Answer: it demonstrates that, using the much-maligned construction management method, you can deliver a large building early and within budget with minimum waste and safety risks 鈥� and have enough time and money left over to put up another one. We went to see this impossible truth for ourselves
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FeaturesThe top 10 most disastrous building projects in the world EVER
Budgets spiralling to the size of a small country鈥檚 GDP. Vast body counts. Overruns that go on for centuries 鈥� Yes, in the style of a Channel 4 filler show, and on the back of the nightmare that is the National Physical Laboratory, it鈥檚 the worst projects ever
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FeaturesCreating an opening
Ex-footballers are the new mayors when it comes to opening buildings in the North East.
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FeaturesTsunami diary: The clear up continues
Arup civil engineer Anthony Peter arrives in the coastal area of Ampara in Sri Lanka to help build temporary shelters for victims of the Tsunami.
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FeaturesSecond thoughts
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson鈥檚 very funny, very charming and highly critical account of Britain in the 1990s, made Britons look at themselves slightly differently. But what would he write if he took the same journey today?
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Ready for take off
As a client, it鈥檚 easy to see how far the industry has come, but there is still a long way to go
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FeaturesNine into one
Is it a home? Is it an office? A shop, a theatre or maybe a bus station? Well, all of the above 鈥� and more besides. In fact, Ruddle Wilkinson Architects鈥� latest development in north London combines nine uses in one building. Martin Spring finds out how.
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FeaturesJust the job
Caridad Marin Mollinedo explains why swapping architecture for surveying wasn鈥檛 such a big deal