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FeaturesWorkers' welfare
We report on how baa is making sure all its construction staff live to see the end of the job
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FeaturesA grave responsibility
Graham Farrant's task is to create a profitable group that will advise individual clients and lobby for their collective interests. This is about as popular a job as undertaking 鈥� which is apt, given what happened to the last body.
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FeaturesNot a matter of life and death 鈥�
As Bill Shankly said, football is much more important than that 鈥� at least it is to Redrow founder Steve Morgan. We tell the story of his struggle to win a place on the board of his beloved Liverpool FC, and gets expert analysis from the man himself
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FeaturesRise of the machines
It is the year 2004, and a 400-year-old firm in Sussex, England, has become mankind's last hope of resistance to the machine-made roof tile 鈥� but for how much longer?
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Amec conjures April victory with 拢460m MoD contract
Refurbishment deal puts contractor 拢120m ahead of Laing O鈥橰ourke while BDP tops architects league
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Just the job
Solicitor Anthony Fine was among the first to specialise in PFI contracts. Here he tells us about the challenges it poses and his predictions for this evolving market
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FeaturesHomage to valencia
A small town at the foot of a Spanish citadel has embraced the modern with architect Paredes Pedrosa's congress centre. And in so doing, it has added to Valencia's illustrious architectural heritage
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FeaturesMark Whitby's 31 buildings
Nick Hornby is not the only one who can write lists, you know. Inspired by Hornby's compilation 31 Songs, by the Sydney Opera House saga and by his lifelong passion for architecture, Mark Whitby, founder of Whitbybird, decided to let us in on his list of engineering masterpieces. Here's the ...
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Local lowdown
The continued boom in London Docklands means the area is attracting construction staff as well as City suits. Robert Smith of Hays Montrose reports
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FeaturesHere comes rab
A crowd of iconic office schemes is being planned for the City of London. Bennetts Associates' New Street Square is the latest to be unveiled 鈥�
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FeaturesNothing doing
The Paddington Health Campus was always going to be problematic, but nobody expected it to take so long to do so little, or for costs to rise from 拢360m to 拢827m. We tell the inside story of the PFI hospital from hell
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FeaturesCost study: Scottish gas headquarters
Built on a former gasworks (appropriately), Scottish Gas鈥� HQ is an elegant and energy-efficient addition to Edinburgh鈥檚 rapidly changing waterfront. Architect Foster and Partners, environmental engineer Battle McCarthy and cost consultant Davis Langdon explain how they did it.
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Glazed in glory
Rick Mather's Lincoln School of Architecture, shoehorned into a small site next to a railway track, is a triumph of design ingenuity. We find out how specifiying the right windows made all the difference