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FeaturesReed out loud: the RIBA's first woman president
Ruth Reed wants to change people鈥檚 views of the RIBA 鈥� and becoming the institute鈥檚 first woman president isn鈥檛 a bad place to start. She talks to Dan Stewart about her priorities for her two-year stint, the recession and how she hopes to make the RIBA less London-centric
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FeaturesStone Alone: Crest Nicholson's boss on surviving a crisis
Crest Nicholson was knocked sideways by the disintegration of the housing market and the failure of the global banking system, and for 10 months chief executive Stephen Stone shouldered the weight of a collapsing company. Tom Bill found out what it took to keep smiling
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FeaturesAuschwitz: telling the SS I was a builder saved my life
Sixty-five years after he entered Auschwitz, Albert Veissid tells Ben King the extraordinary tale of how his fictitious construction skills helped him survive
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FeaturesBudget hotels: Premier Inn's purple reign
Alex Flach, the man in charge of building the Premier Inn budget hotels, says he wants to build, build, build 鈥� which should give some of you looking for work a good night鈥檚 sleep. Especially if you like purple
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FeaturesHe's back: Lord Falconer returns to the Thames Gateway
Lord Falconer has unfinished business at the Thames Gateway 鈥� but given the recession, axed transport projects and scant progress since he worked on the scheme six years ago, can even this 鈥榟eavy hitter鈥� get things rolling?
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FeaturesGareth Darbyshire: the 拢20m 20-year-old
While most students rough it, Gareth Darbyshire prefers to swank it up at Claridge鈥檚. But then, between lectures, he does run his own 拢20m-turnover contracting company. Not bad for someone who just turned 20
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FeaturesThe guts of the UAE: developer Gurjit Singh on Abu Dhabi
As Abu Dhabi prepares for next week鈥檚 Cityscape conference, top developer Gurjit Singh tells David Rogers why the emirate鈥檚 grand plans are still going swimmingly when so many in the world are dead in the water
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FeaturesThe optimist: ACE's Nelson Ogunshakin
The worldwide downturn spells disaster for many British engineers. So why is ACE boss Nelson Ogunshakin still smiling?
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FeaturesPeter Mandelson: survival specialist
Few politicians know more about making it through tough times than Peter Mandelson. Now it鈥檚 his job to help Britain鈥檚 businesses do the same
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FeaturesWe have to vs We can't: the Heathrow third runway debate
鈥楾hat runway will be built over my dead body. And i mean that literally鈥�
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FeaturesBoris鈥� brain: Sir Simon Milton interview
As the London mayor鈥檚 chief of staff and planning guru, Sir Simon Milton has a lot on his plate: skirmishes over Crossrail, affordable homes targets, improving design quality, the recession 鈥� Still, at least his boss is a laugh
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Features'Bomb disposal is very like risk management'
The Afghan desert is a long way from Cyril Sweett鈥檚 London office, but for Captain Louise Greenhalgh it鈥檚 just another day staying one step ahead of local hazards
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FeaturesMace's Stephen Pycroft: 'I don't do interviews'
Thirty years in construction, 16 at Mace 鈥� more than four of them as chief executive 鈥� but Stephen Pycroft has never given an interview鈥� until now. Emily Wright talks to him about sale rumours and why he鈥檚 not sunning himself in the Bahamas
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FeaturesVince Cable: 'This industry could collapse'
When the person who says this is Vince Cable, a man with a gift for eerily accurate economic predictions, you know things are serious
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FeaturesMargaret Beckett: is 240,000 homes a year possible?
Housing minister Margaret Beckett answers this and eight other questions about the state of the sector
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FeaturesIdentity crisis: Construction's corporate rebrander Steve Edge
He鈥檚 worked with George Lucas, Cartier and Dior, but is a corporate rebrand from Steve Edge really what construction companies need to survive the recession? Well, Wates, Kier and Skanska seem to think so
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FeaturesRobert Stern: designing Dubya's library
Architect and academic Robert Stern is to design a library for the outgoing president of the United States. The joke going around, of course, is that it must be a fairly small building. Dan Stewart found out
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FeaturesStill going strong
Design consultancy ttsp struck gold at this year's AIS Contractors Awards, designing the ceilings installed by Phoenix Interiors for Nomura, London. Thom Gibbs meets MD Tim Jennings, who has spent 26 years at the firm
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FeaturesInterview: Tessa Jowell
Olympics minister Tessa Jowell may be catching much of the flak being fired at the preparations for the 2012 London Games, but it鈥檒l take a lot more than that to faze her. Dan Stewart reports
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FeaturesBSF special: 'a plate glass window palace doesn鹿t make a good school' - Chris Woodhead, former chief inspector for schools, interviewed
Former chief inspector for schools Chris Woodhead carries a big stick (he鈥檚 broken his ankle) but you wonder if he鈥檇 rather use it to thwack all those dunces who don鈥檛 get the difference between a good school and a bit of architectural frippery. Emily Wright learns more