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CommentFive minutes with ... Andrew Altman
Olympic Park Legacy Company chief executive tells 星空传媒 what the rest of the world is making of London 2012鈥檚 post-games preparations
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CommentWhy calling for housing QE is not special pleading: Part 2
Brian Green concludes his arguments for the government to introduce quantitative easing into the housing sector 鈥� and adds a timely royalist flourish
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CommentFive minutes with ... Dennis Hone
Olympic Delivery Authority chief executive says he has 鈥渆very confidence鈥� in LOCOG now baton has been handed on
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CommentCouncil bonds could hold the key
Resetting the balance between Whitehall and city halls is crucial for the future of infrastructufe funding, argues Alexander Jan
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CommentFive minutes with ... Tim Mote at Mipim
Aecom鈥檚 regional director gives 星空传媒 the lowdown on Europe鈥檚 safe havens in the Qatar Pavilion
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"Would you like a chocolate duckling?" And other Mipim quotes
Day one at Mipim is almost over. Before the networking moves into the bars and restaurants surrounding the Palais, here are the top 5 quotes of the day so far鈥�
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CommentFive minutes with ... Abdulla Faisal Al Doseri at Mipim
Bahrain Bay Development deputy CEO tells 星空传媒 why the kingdom is the place to be
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CommentWhy calling for housing QE is not special pleading: Part 1
Brian Green argues there is a strong case for harnessing the potential of quantitative easing to boost struggling sectors of the economy.
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What's in store at this year's Mipim?
Overseas development in London, a mega-sized Qatari pavilion and chocolote ducklings make an initial impression on day 1
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Mipim survival tips ... delays
Travellers to Cannes take note: there are delays on Eurostar this morning so prepare for a longer journey than usual
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CommentDefinitely, maybe
The school building programme may be stricken with delays and uncertainty, but worse still would be if the underlying finance arrangements are hit
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CommentTakes one to know one
A negligence case against a professional often bt not always benefits from the opinion of an expert in the same field
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CommentHansom: Tech savvy
Isn鈥檛 technology incredible? We can heat swimming pools with crematoriums, build lifts that go into space 鈥� and yet there鈥檚 still no way to recall an inadvertently sent email, as two architects found out
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CommentFocus on our skills base, not credit agencies
The government is hell-bent on satisfying the credit rating agencies when it would be better investing long-term in our skills base, says David Blunkett
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Inbox: On a budget
This week, readers seize hold of the purse strings - berating the government for failing to cap public procurement costs and laying into the RICS for racking up huge losses
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CommentEco standards in schools are slipping
Michael Gove鈥檚 free schools were meant to rip through red tape. But it鈥檚 not just the curriculum that has been relaxed - increasingly, sustainability and space requirements are being dropped too. Now fears are growing that this latest austerity measure could spread to all new schools, as Allister Hayman reports
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My digital life 鈥� Peter Rhodes
This managing director is known to check his email at the weekend and will challenge you to a mobile version of Scrabble any day
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CommentWe're going to Shanghai
The city, and the wider Chinese construction market, are starting to see a fresh approach to development - and it's about more than tall buildings and neon
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CommentColombia invites you to join its building boom
Misconceptions and a lack of knowledge of Colombia could be preventing firms from tapping into rich opportunities there