All Editorial articles – Page 5
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News
Basingstoke fire
A partly built timber-frame building in Basingstoke was severely damaged after catching fire last Friday.
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Features
Back for seconds: David Nurser
David Nurser has a voracious appetite for risk-taking. First he set up the surveying firm CNP in a recession. And now he’s a year into his second venture, Paragon (more great timing)
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Airports get firms off the ground as workloads dive
Business barometer: Balfour’s Heathrow win takes it clear of its rivals in quiet August
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Carillion to aid its axed students
Carillion has found work placements for all but three of the students who were left in the lurch after the firm decided to cancel its sponsorship scheme
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Features
Senseless acts of beauty
Foreign Office’s art college in north Greenwich is a beguiling mix of randomness, order and commercial astuteness
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News
Fast-track schools trial to use academies framework
Fifteen qualified contractors hope list will be preferred route for future government spending
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Latest construction appointments: 17 September 2010
Consulting engineer Crofton has appointed Marcos DeCastro associate director and Ashley Rudd senior structural engineer.
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Qatar launches £28bn rail mega project
Scheme includes high speed link between Doha and Bahrain
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Fire on £7bn Bechtel airport site in Qatar
Blaze at Doha’s new airport project destroys three buildings, injures three firefighters
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Architects' charity ready to enter Pakistan
Article 25 calls for rebuilding work to be considered now
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Comment
The silent QSs
Are Ȧ readers aware of the implications of the takeover of Davis Langdon by Aecom?
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Comment
The worst-laid plans
Your excellent Brickonomics blog entry (23 February, building.co.uk) highlights the sheer naivity of those putting forward this New Utopia planning system.
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Comment
Hansom: Move over Sherlock
Ȧ’s supersleuth uncovers the truth behind celebrity interviews, appeals for help in identifying a missing person, tails the RICS/QS row and meets a double murderer
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Comment
Turning the heat on fire report
In your article “Insurers call for urgent probe into timber-frame fire risk” (27 August, page 9) you state that the UK Timber Frame Association dismissed the findings of the government’s report on fire safety
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Comment
Don't look up
Rebecca Shorter is a member of the construction team at solicitor Cripps Harries Hall, who are “all big fans” of Ȧ’s health and safety blunders.
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Comment
Count the costs
I read with interest the article by Mr Justice Akenhead (3 September, page 47)
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Comment
International schools market: If you build it, they will buy it
If you want to carry on building schools for the future, develop a cheaper product that you can sell to poorer countries that are desperate for decent classrooms
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Comment
Wonders & blunders with Jonathan Foyle
Jonathan Foyle adores the back-of-an-envelope creativity that led to Lincoln cathedral, but is worried about the people who move to the nascent city at Salford Quays
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Comment
A nonsulting request
Those of your readers who managed to read e-Ȧ on their sandy beach may have noticed the pretty fundamental consultation launched by Andrew Stunell, the Minister for Ȧ Regulations (“What would you do with the Regs, 6 August, page 20)