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FeaturesCherry on top
Alan Cherry is the ambassador of housebuilding 鈥� the multimillionaire chairman of Countryside Properties has the ear of a number of policymaking bodies. And as we find out, he鈥檚 not afraid to speak his mind.
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FeaturesTales of Temple Bar
Sir Christopher Wren's Temple Bar marked the gateway to the City of London for 200 years. Then it retired to the country. And now, thanks to a 拢4m stone-by-stone removal job, the arch should see a few more centuries of capital life at Paternoster Square.
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Features鈥� and heave
Wembley Stadium's new arch will soon focus the pride of a football obsessed nation. But the construction team's pride depends on lifting 1650 tonnes without going to extra time and penalties, as we find out
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Minority report
We examine the implications of new laws introduced to tackle religious and sexual discrimination in the workplace
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FeaturesCost model: PFI hospitals
Capital investment is pouring into the NHS and the prognosis for improved performance is good. In this month’s cost model examine the aims of the hospital programme, probe design issues, and break down the price of adding a trauma unit to an existing hospital
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FeaturesMission: impossible
Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Take apart an entire British Army town in Kosovo and put it up again in war-torn Basra, Iraq, in time for new year. Sounds tough? We report on who was up to the task without self-destructing 鈥�
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FeaturesTo the bastion
Francisco Mangado's concert hall in Pamplona has received rapturous applause from the locals 鈥� well, all except the odd terrorist. We take a peek into a peculiar tale
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Appointments
Housebuilders Weybridge-based Persimmon Homes South East has appointed Mike Ackling health and safety adviser for the South-east.Eamonn McInerney has joined Charles Church South Midlands as regional sales director.Wates Developments has promoted Jonny Wates to group strategic marketing director. Neil Simpson joins as sales and marketing director and Peter Gurr, ...
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FeaturesLaurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Don't be fooled by the foppish style: Britain's favourite interior designer is set to have a say in the way we build entire towns. Which may be of interest to Prince Charles 鈥� we find out more.
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FeaturesGoing Ballastic
Thousands of furious workers and suppliers are banging on the door of Ballast, demanding their money and claiming they were misled about the firm's financial position. Will a creditors' meeting later this month do anything to pacify them?
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Local lowdown
The south-west of England has never been livelier, with construction jobs and salaries surfing a wave of development, says Robert Smith of Hays Montrose
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FeaturesBeyond the automobile
Ford has helped turn its mammoth Dagenham car plant into a pioneering technical education centre 鈥� and its first customers will be the former factory's workers. Oh, and it looks fantastic, too. Who said history was bunk?
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FeaturesCost update: December 2003
Welcome to our quarterly analysis of changes to key material prices, labour costs and work item rates. The data also acts as an update to the Spon's series of Price Books, edited by Davis Langdon & Everest
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FeaturesThe x factor
Squeezing a million extra visitors into New York would be an Olympian feat, but the team bidding against London to host the 2012 games has developed a race advantage. They call it the Olympic X
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FeaturesGoing down a storm
The Met Office has just moved all its staff and forecasting equipment to a purpose built facility in balmy Devon 鈥� without a second's break in its service. We found out how the project team made a tricky transition into a summer breeze
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FeaturesThe great escape
This year's 黑洞社区/Hays Montrose careers survey finds a workforce eager to escape the shackles of nine-to-five employment to find a more flexible lifestyle.
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FeaturesUSA Today
Earlier this month, CABE chief executive we visited three US cities to see what Britain could learn from American planning and urban development. His trip diary reveals why both countries cast an envious eye on the other, and unearths the secrets of New Urbanism, Bush-whacking and the planning authority run ...
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Pulp that paper trail
Flood damage is tough enough to repair without getting bogged down in faxes and reports. We explain how wireless technology has saved one company from drowning in paperwork