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The burning of the bodies

By: Series: Building ; 269(8350) 24 September 2004, 24-25(2)Publication details: 2004Subject(s): Summary: Reports on the recent claim and proposal by Peter Rogers, a director of developer Stanhope, that the specialist nature of professional bodies hinders co-operation between disciplines and that the individual institutions should be abandoned, revoking their Royal Charters, in favour of a single body covering the entire building industry. Covers the pro and con positions of the individual institutions vis-à-vis the call to merge and unify. Summarises the construction industry's institutional heritage.

Reports on the recent claim and proposal by Peter Rogers, a director of developer Stanhope, that the specialist nature of professional bodies hinders co-operation between disciplines and that the individual institutions should be abandoned, revoking their Royal Charters, in favour of a single body covering the entire building industry. Covers the pro and con positions of the individual institutions vis-à-vis the call to merge and unify. Summarises the construction industry's institutional heritage.