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Guarding your patch
I can imagine how some of our readers will react to this month鈥檚 cover feature on the move by commercial developers into the residential sector. Some housebuilders will be outraged at the sheer brass neck of the Lipton family and their suggestion that housebuilding is so inefficient that it will ...
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Victims of the system
It's been a bad week for the paperclip posse. On Tuesday, the government and the Tories called for a mass cull of civil servants.
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Playing by the rules
The Princess Royal Sports Arena in Boston, Lincolnshire, is a wooden wonder. Constructed entirely from timber, the sports centre looks like an ark awaiting a flood on its site at the edge of the North Sea. One of the most remarkable things about the arena is that architect BGP McGonaghy ...
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Immigration requires regulation
The Morecambe Bay tragedy has swung the spotlight back onto illegal immigrants in construction.
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Guilt by association
Contractors may feel a strange empathy this week with those at the centre of the Hutton inquiry.
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You鈥檒l pay for this
Why are construction leaders so reluctant to join the political fray over tuition fees?
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An affair of the heart 鈥�
How rich for journalists, of all people, to be lecturing others on the perils of boozing and bingeing. Well, yes, all right.
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A matter of honours
It is little wonder that there were just nine architects, and precisely nobody from construction, among the 300 refuseniks revealed in the Sunday Times to have turned down a New Year's honour.
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Back from the dead
Just when it appeared to be gently ebbing away, construction's strategic forum has sprung back to life.
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Welcoming our guest workers
David Blunkett's imperious asylum policy 鈥� outlined in the Queen's Speech 鈥� may have profound implications for construction.
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Who cares?
"Once they had my money, they just didn't care," was a common refrain from new homebuyers surveyed by warranty provider Zurich Insurance for its Customer First survey. For all the customer care programmes and defects reduction initiatives, Zurich's survey (page 6), shows customers are still not very satisfied with the ...
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Too little, too late
"Four Pads" Prescott is in a pickle over housing again 鈥� and not just with his domestic arrangements.
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Making a mark on the 21st century
The Brick Development Association's annual Brick Awards showcase excellence in the use of brick, whether by architects, designers, engineers or brickwork contractors.
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A tale of two monarchies
鈥淭here is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision,鈥� wrote William James, Henry鈥檚 smarter brother, in his Principle Of Psychology.
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Working in harmony
This month, a double issue of Specifier looks at doors and windows and flooring 鈥� and what dynamic sectors they are. Despite a flurry of new rules, architects are still turning out some great pieces of work 鈥� and Tinside Lido in Plymouth is one of them. The project team ...
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Pressing on with the PFI
The tiresome ideological struggle over the PFI resurfaced at the Labour conference (see news).
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Desperate measures
Two important themes are emerging from Kate Barker鈥檚 inquiry into why we build so few houses.
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Cracking the crusties
Remember Swampy? You might think those noisy, unkempt students who hijacked bulldozers at Twyford Down would have settled into a placid middle age in Basingstoke by now.