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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.
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FeaturesWe have take-off
On a miniscule site that gives new meaning to the phrase 鈥榗lose to the flightpath鈥�, the team building Heathrow鈥檚 new air traffic control tower found an ingenious way to hoist the control room 87 m into the air.
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Specifier Products
In our cladding special this week, glass for flush facades or fighting fire, frameless glazing systems, multicoloured render or steel panels and 30 storeys of curtain walling in Liverpool 鈥� plus the latest news
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Costs: Stone facades
So do you go for natural or reconstructed stone for your stone facade? Which will offer the best whole-life value? Peter Mayer of the 黑洞社区 Performance Group breaks down the options
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FeaturesCladding: The walls of St Mary鈥檚
This week we鈥檝e got cladding well and truly covered, with an array of impressive products to make your facades beautiful and efficient, a breakdown of the whole-life costs of natural stone vs concrete finishes and eight steps to the perfect specification. But first, how the stainless steel at St Mary鈥檚 ...