Lydia Stockdale
FeaturesNo base like home
Occupiers such as BT are increasingly seeing the benefits of home and flexible working. Is this the end of the office? Lydia Stockdale reports
FeaturesMy employer helped me
Lydia Stockdale met three people who made lucky choices when they picked a firm to work for
FeaturesA man on a mission
Arup engineer Daniel Rea tells Lydia Stockdale how he followed a path trodden by Dr Livingstone and ended up at the Building Awards
FeaturesJust what is it like to live in an Ecohome?
Sustainable housebuilding is all well and good, but it means little without sustainability-minded houseowners to back it up. Lydia Stockdale visited three ecohomes to see how the residents have adapted to a greener lifestyle
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Starting out
How they made it Deena Mattar is one of the industry’s only female finance directors. She tells Lydia Stockdale how keeping her temper and her head down got her to the top
FeaturesThis professor has been brought to you by ...
If your lecturer spends more time with private firms than with you, should you a) Complain, b) Be glad they’re keeping up with the latest thinking, or c) Get them to wangle you a job?
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Oh my god, I didn’t
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 …
NewsHSE probed crane safety before Battersea collapse
The HSE says it was investigating the safety of cranes long before crane collapse at Battersea
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‘Let’s talk again two years from now …’
Hays Executive salary guide In 2006 executives have bided their time, choosing to wait and see where the top Olympic jobs will arise. But when the time comes, it will pay to have had one or two discreet meetings with headhunters
FeaturesWhat's your carbon footprint?
After an amazing response to our online Carbon footprint estimator, now readers can find out which professions are the environmental angels and which are gas-guzzling sinners...
FeaturesStarting out
For managers on site, taking responsibility for health and safety can be a matter of life and death. And for graduates in their early twenties, that responsibility can weigh very heavily indeed.
FeaturesHome from home
Squashed and sweating in protective clothing for 10 hours at the scene of an emergency was the final straw for Bob Jones. He demanded a refuge – a van he could call his own
FeaturesMoving message
Andrew Pears’ Cafe Van tours sites spreading the sustainable construction word with toasted sandwiches and tea
FeaturesTools for schools
A mobile workshop is bringing an ‘Aladdin’s cave’ of tools to the chosen few at five Surrey schools, giving them a real taste of the building site
NewsFirms fined £300,000 following death in sewer
Bethell Construction and Future Environmental Services were fined yesterday for a fatal fall from height in Oldham
NewsCorruption unit is not a 'witch hunt against construction'
Police says new unit will not target construction specifically in bribery and corruption investigations
NewsSupercasino decision delayed
Shadow culture secretary says decision on location of supercasino has been delayed by a month
FeaturesBuilding buys the popcorn
Yes, we’re branching out. Inspired by the success of ‘Building buys a pint’, we took a group from consultant WSP to see Al Gore’s eco-documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Lydia Stockdale forked out for the Butterkist …
NewsAnother crane collapses in London
The jib of a crane on a Sir Robert McAlpine site in London collapsed at 9.30 this morning
NewsPlans revealed: £200m Thames Gateway scheme
An outline planning application has been submitted for PRP's 1,650 home redevelopment in Basildon