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Timber frame business centure: From little acorns…

2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

HOW WE WORK TOGETHER — Directors from Reid Architecture, Woolgar Hunter and Donaldson & McConnell explain why they opted for a timber-frame solution on a business centre in West Lothian.

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‘We don’t hug trees and do Kum Ba Yah’

2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

Murray Coleman is not a man to mince his words, as Mark Leftly found when he trailed the new Bovis Lend Lease construction boss around one of the contractor’s more problematic PFI projects

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The 2007 ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV horoscope

2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

Will the Olympic budget keep soaring? Will Ray O’Rourke buy when Amec sells? Will Ucatt survive against the super union? Will QSs still be interested in property? And will we still be talking about Wembley in December? Consulting a beginner’s guide to astrology, we reveal all this and more in ...

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‘You could run this building as a traditional school – but it would be a waste’

2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Design Partnership’s Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate is like no other school – it has a campus feel, there are no corridors and the students don’t even bunk off.

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Escaping doesn’t have to be this hard …

2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ready for another year of sitting at the same desk, talking to the same people and staring out of the same window? No? Claire Dodd helps plot your bid for freedom

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A well-oiled machine

2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

Honda’s construction team has taken inspiration from the company’s car production lines to keep its projects purring smoothly

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Laing O’Rourke strikes it rich in Bedfordshire

2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

Contractor dominates November league with £120m social housing deal

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2006 Pub Olympics

2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

Think ancient Greece, think heroics: the passion, the struggle, the glory. Now think London pub: designers, QSs and builders slugging it out with ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV contributors for gold. Inspiring, isn’t it?

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This was the year that was 2006

2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

Government plans for nuclear Future. Coleman in, Millett out at Bovis. Gordon Brown sets leadership agenda. Wembley still unbuilt. Consultants flee war-torn Lebanon. Treasury reviews the PFI’s future. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV buys pints. Jack Lemley slams London 2012.

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Steady as she goes

2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

Contractors in all sectors and across all regions were feeling buoyant in October. According to the Experian Business Strategies survey, activity is rising across the board – and especially in civil engineering. When it comes to the future, though, they’re a little less certain

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Appointments

2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

This week's movers …

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Pub Olympics

2006-12-12T11:50:00Z

Who tops the medal table when it comes to pub sports? We preview ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV's inaugural Pub Olympics

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Foreword

2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

The chancellor’s pre-Budget statement opens a new chapter for regeneration this week, with the expected release of policy documents including economist Kate Barker’s review of the planning system.

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Cost update: December 2006

2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

In this quarter’s update on the cost of materials and labour, Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon reports on the latest inflation trends. And reading on we have details of pay awards for workers

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Typical. You wait years for a report setting out government policy on vital areas like housing and transport and then three come at once …

2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

Ahead of Gordon Brown’s pre-Budget report on Wednesday, the government released a series of weighty tomes on policy strategy. Here David Blackman and Mark Leftly provide an at-a-glance guide to them

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Harmonic progression

2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

RHWL’s Arts Team has refurbished and extended Frank Matcham’s Victorian nonpareil, the Belfast Grand Opera House. Sonia Soltani reports on how the two styles have been made to work together

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Oh my god, I didn’t

2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

Ah, but the sick lump of fear in your stomach tells you that you did – and now you have to go to work and cope with the fall-out. Lydia Stockdale and Katie Puckett report on how to make sure your Christmas party antics don’t ruin your career …

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Appointments

2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

Who's got a new job this week?

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The long haul

2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

Chris Cole has been with WSP for 33 years, during which time it has developed, diversified, turned into a plc, balanced on the edge of disaster and finally grown into one of the industry’s foremost consultants. Here he tells Mark Leftly all about it.

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‘A lot of the guys won’t work on timber frame again’

2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

This July, a site in north London turned into a terrifying inferno in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee. Nobody knew why. Now the London Fire Brigade has talked exclusively to ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV about what happened and the dangers inherent in multistorey timber-frame sites.