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FeaturesEducation
Essential information this week for all those specifying a school, college or university, including up-to-the-minute accessories and fittings, tips on whole-life costing, and how much those head-flushing, girls-weeping toilet cubicles are going to cost you. But first we have the coolest college atrium on the planet 鈥�
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Cost update: March 2005
In this quarter鈥檚 analysis of construction materials and labour prices, Davis Langdon reports on the double whammy of electrical costs and electricians鈥� pay deal that is making it pricey to get the sparks flying 鈥�
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FeaturesCompanies close up
Nick Jones visits the factory of ductwork contractor Hotchkiss to find out why a traditional approach to training has led to an impressive awards cabinet
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FeaturesWhatever happened to those fearless construction managers? 鈥�
The case of Great Eastern Hotel vs Laing is the first time that a court has turned a construction manager upside down and given him a good shake. On this occasion, 拢10m fell out of Laing鈥檚 pockets. So, has the game fundamentally changed, or was this case the exception the ...
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CM in the dock
Does this ruling concern the competence of one particular construction manager or does it have wider significance for the whole profession?
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The bitter truth
It鈥檚 difficult for an expert witness to tell the party paying them that their case leaks like a sieve, but it is in everybody鈥檚 best interests that they do just that
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FeaturesDiarmuid Gavin
Don鈥檛 be fooled by the affable exterior 鈥� television鈥檚 most popular gardener is plotting a revolution in our own back yards. Here he lets us in on the secret and tries to recruit you as well.
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FeaturesGoing great guns
What with all the fuss over Wembley, you could be forgiven for forgetting that a certain other north London stadium is under construction. We went to the new Highbury to check the state of play
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FeaturesThe Arnolfini wedding
Bristol鈥檚 famous marriage of art gallery, 1970s office and Victorian warehouse has been comprehensively redesigned by Snell Associates 鈥� We found out how it was done
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FeaturesCanterbury tale
Architect Rivington Street Studio has turned a run-of-the-mill repair and maintenance job into an elegant refurbishment for a faded campus of the Kent Institute of Art & Design.
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Architects face York plaque attack
A York councillor is proposing shaming bad buildings with a plaque of shame.
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Just the job
Tim Johnson trained as a QS but quickly took a career swerve into an emerging sector
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FeaturesJohn Redwood
After three years away from the front bench, the poster boy of the Thatcherite right is keen to demonstrate how a Tory government would make 拢35bn of efficiency savings 鈥� and gladden the hearts of the construction industry.
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International costs: 2005
Gardiner & Theobald鈥檚 13th annual survey looks at how much it鈥檒l cost you to build various buildings around the world, along with labour and inflation rates 鈥� plus why China is still the main cost driver
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FeaturesLofty ideas, hushed tones
In its reinvention of the library as gateway to human knowledge, Bennetts Associates has created a graciously grand yet efficiently low-energy centrepiece to a mixed-use regeneration scheme in Brighton. We took a quiet look around
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FeaturesWhat鈥檚 their big idea now?
Next week is the fifth anniversary of the London Eye hoisting its first passengers 130 m above the capital. Its designers David Marks and Julia Barfield talk about their battle to ensure the Eye鈥檚 future, their next height-defying design and why they are not millionaires 鈥� yet.