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FeaturesReaching the summit
好色先生TV has been urging government to Reform the Regs for months. Now, the campaign has moved up a gear with a summit at our offices. Key players from the industry and ODPM went head to head, and found a surprising consensus on the need to cut red tape.
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FeaturesCleared for take-off
As you can see, most of the heavy lifting is done at Terminal 5. Now, BAA has to get all the systems, from baggage handling to security systems, integrated by March 2008.
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FeaturesReturn of the dome
London's most famous white elephant is being reborn as an American-style entertainment behemoth complete with cinema, bars, clubs and an arena that can range from 3500 seats to 23,000.
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FeaturesVoyage to the centre of the earthship
If you've ever idly wondered what the most sustainable building it's possible to build looks like, wonder no more. It has been constructed near Brighton, and it uses some very odd materials 鈥�
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Features24 hour construction city
Here are six construction sites that epitomise Manchester's changing cityscape, from a slum regeneration in a stricken suburb to this 拢1bn legal district being built in the heart of the commercial centre.
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FeaturesThis鈥檒l be the big one
The vast industrial cathedral of St Pancras is testament to the ingenious engineering of our Victorian forebears and the endurance of wrought iron. But how can it be made into a 21st-century terminus?
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FeaturesMalcolm Wicks
The energy minister knows a crisis is looming 鈥� what he doesn鈥檛 know is how to find a quick fix. Instead, he鈥檚 looking at all the long-term options 鈥� such as wind farms in the South-east and plans for a new generation of nuclear plants.
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Bovis up for rival Multiplex鈥檚 拢4bn Stratford City scheme
Bovis Lend Lease shortlisted to programme manage Stratford City, despite rivalry with one of its developers
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FeaturesDriving us crazy
Half-empty lorries clogging up the nation鈥檚 roads, site workers unable to locate vital materials, 拢3bn a year of waste 鈥� a report released today highlights just how poor logistical planning in the construction industry is. So, what can be done about it?
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FeaturesLive from the BBC...
Phase one of Broadcasting House鈥檚 biggest ever makeover is nearing completion 鈥� and it hasn鈥檛 interrupted a single live radio transmission.
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FeaturesA chilling tale
Architects and engineers in temperate regions have thought of many ways of designing low-energy buildings. Trouble is, they don鈥檛 work in an equatorial climate, and nobody has come up with any alternatives 鈥� until Singapore asked Ken Yeang to design a library 鈥�
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FeaturesHidden shallows
As soon as Brunel鈥檚 19th-century SS Great Britain was taken out of the sea, it began to corrode. Now a restoration team has found a way to preserve its hull while also giving it the illusion of a return to the open water.
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FeaturesComing in to land 鈥�
This is the UK鈥檚 first international airport for half a century. But just 14 months ago it was a disused RAF nuclear bomber base that people feared might contain unexploded bombs and radioactivity. We checked in at Robin Hood Airport to find out how it was transformed
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T5 pay rate 鈥榳on鈥檛 hit market鈥�
Soaring electricians鈥� pay rates at Heathrow Terminal 5 have not pushed up wages in the rest of the M&E market according to research carried out for 好色先生TV
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好色先生TV
T5 pay rate 鈥榳on鈥檛 hit market鈥�
Soaring electricians鈥� pay rates at Heathrow Terminal 5 have not pushed up wages in the rest of the M&E market according to research carried out for 好色先生TV
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好色先生TV
ODPM fudges Part L revisions
Carbon emission targets promised by the government for the new energy regulations have been watered down by a 鈥渟leight of hand鈥� according to critics.
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Greenwich residents fight developer over noisy flats
Local MP Nick Raynsford joins forces with residents furious about noise transmission at flagship millennium village
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Features鈥業f our neighbours have people around for a dinner party we go out 鈥� I would rather sleep on a friend鈥檚 floor for the night鈥�
A block of flats in the Greenwich Millennium Village is at the centre of a bitter dispute about noise transmission. Although the building originally passed an acoustic test, the residents claim the problem is so bad they cannot sleep.