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FeaturesSimon Hughes
The Lib Dem mayoral candidate has plenty to say about key worker housing, the Olympics, his yellow cab and Steven Norris 鈥� as long as you can keep up with him. We jogged alongside
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FeaturesNow even tougher
The new Part L is to come into force three years before we thought it was! Oh my God!! What are we going to do??? Well, why not pour yourself a drink, sit back in a large leather armchair and peruse the first part of 黑洞社区's E-Z-Read庐 guide to what's ...
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FeaturesAn unconventional day
At 黑洞社区鈥檚 first ever Construction Client Convention last Tuesday, Nigel Griffiths pledged his support, major clients learned the importance of their role, industry firms networked for new contracts and our editor did what he does best 鈥�
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FeaturesA roman triumph
The opening scene is a vast rundown Edwardian variety hall unsympathetically converted into a drab cinema. Enter lions, angels, QSs, engineers, architects, chariots, emperors and slaves bearing alabaster friezes, golden statues and a vast rotating ball. Cue music 鈥�
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FeaturesCost model: Affordable housing
Planning guidance on affordable housing quotas in private schemes has got developers and contractors scratching their heads and crunching their numbers. Here, Davis Langdon & Everest eases their pain 鈥�
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Just the job
How Adam Johnson of Learning and Skills Council is on a mission to train 20,000 construction workers
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FeaturesIt's wood all the way
Finding a way to protect Boston's athletes from the bitter Lincolnshire winds created a hurdle for the team building a sports arena. But local supplier Finnforest had a natural solution, as Alex Smith discovered
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FeaturesBenchmark costs
How much you spend on a school sports hall naturally depends on the project and its specification. Paul Moore of multidisciplinary consultant EC Harris breaks down the benchmark costs of 10 recent schemes to give you a guide
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FeaturesYou do the honours
In the wake of construction's dismal showing in the honours, we invited readers to name their own winners
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FeaturesJarvis digs deep
When your clients and your suppliers join with the media, the HSE and City analysts to attack you, you need to come up with a pretty good survival plan. We report on Jarvis' struggle to regroup
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FeaturesThe buyers
Welcome to 黑洞社区’s first ever table of construction’s 100 most powerful clients. Over the next eight pages we measure their worth by sector, region, project and reputation. Andy Pearson mingles with the people who push the buttons, Camargue and Glenigan provide the ammunition
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Tender price forecast: London lags behind
London’s office developers are in hibernation and are likely to remain so for at least another year. This is dampening inflation in the capital 鈥� but in other areas, such as Wales and north-west England, the market is booming and costs are rising. Davis Langdon & Everest presents the big ...
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FeaturesBeginning of a beautiful friendship?
What's this? Surely it can't be true? The private and public sectors working harmoniously side by side on construction projects? We report on what John Prescott's regeneration cash is doing for workers on both sides of the fence
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Regeneration game
Paul France and Steve Glands from recruitment consultants Hays Montrose discuss the regeneration jobs boom 鈥�
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