All ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV articles in 18 December 2009 – Page 7

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    Broadway Malyan wins British school job in Abu Dhabi

    2009-12-18T01:41:00Z

    Broadway Malyan has pipped Foster + Partners and Aedas to a commission for a British school in Abu Dhabi

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    Flop of the year

    2009-12-18T01:40:00Z

    The Battersea power station chimney

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    Deal of the year

    2009-12-18T01:39:00Z

    Balfour Beatty and Parsons Brinckerhoff

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    How the state helped – and didn’t

    2009-12-18T01:38:00Z

    The public sector provided the vast bulk of any work there was in 2009, with fears that spending would slow before the election not holding true

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    Dubai bailout fails to cheer UK creditors

    2009-12-18T01:37:00Z

    $10bn rescue by Abu Dhabi unlikely to lead to quicker debt repayments

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    A green revolution

    2009-12-18T01:35:00Z

    The carbon-cutting campaign gathered momentum as the year went on, culminating in the Copenhagen summit of world leaders in December – and a last-minute appearance by US president Barack Obama

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    Three bright spots

    2009-12-18T01:31:00Z

    The aquatic centre roof lift

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    An industry of ill-repute

    2009-12-18T01:30:00Z

    The public’s opinion of construction took a hammering in 2009 with the Office of Fair Trading’s allegations of tender malpractice against 110 firms

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    Hanging together

    2009-12-18T01:21:00Z

    Construction’s disparate yet oddly indistinguishable trade bodies have, as noted by James Wates some years ago, long borne a worrying resemblance to Monty Python’s Judean People’s Front, the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean Popular People’s Front, at least in the eyes of Whitehall

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    A Right royal row

    2009-12-18T01:17:00Z

    Prince Charles is well-known in for his vitriol towards all things carbuncular, but nobody could have predicted the row that kicked off when he criticised Richard Rogers’ designs for the Chelsea Barracks scheme in April

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    Quotes of the year

    2009-12-18T01:16:00Z

    "The crisis was predictable and probably avoidable. The final confusion in communication made a bad situation worse"Sir Andrew Foster, former chair of the audit commission, gives his verdict on the Learning and Skills Council debacle"He’s a menace to London"George Ferguson, former RIBA president, on Rafael Viñoly"I’ll stay on. A million ...

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    A trail of destruction

    2009-12-18T01:13:00Z

    The year began on a bleak note when it was confirmed on 23 January that the UK had entered recession for the first time since the early nineties

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    This man must be stopped

    2009-12-18T01:11:00Z

    No hard hat, no high-vis jacket, no harness, and I suspect his reindeer were doing more than 10mph too

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    Projects that went pearshaped

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    Here, in order of horribleness, are six projects that caused grief to all concerned, although they did give ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV journalists an awful lot to write about

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    Mix it up

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    Much as I respect John Bale (4 December, page 30), I have to take issue with him over procurement

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    Tesco plots return to regeneration market

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    £400m Woolwich project among those set to restart as confidence seeps back into sector

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    London's latest landmarks

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    Canary Wharf continued to grow during the 2000s, establishing itself as London’s major business centre

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    Industry and state

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    Mankind’s ancient struggle with red tape reached a climax in 2005 after the draft Code for Sustainable Homes joined consultations on Parts B, L and F of the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Regulations

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    High-speed rail timetable set for March

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    Detailed plans to build a high-speed rail network in the UK will be announced next spring, transport secretary Andrew Adonis announced on Monday

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    Health and safety

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    When the annual number of site deaths passed 105 in the first year of the decade, there was a widespread sense that something had to be done