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BCO Conference, Day One: A brave new world?
Alinea Consulting’s Iain Parker gives his impression of the British Council for Office’s annual conference in Madrid
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Olympic media centre to get £100m revamp
Developer signs deal with London Legacy Development Corporation and will start work in 2014
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The cost to construction of false optimism
How many firms have gone to the wall in construction because they took the advice of persistent optimists?
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Are rich foreign investors propping up construction?
Here are some intriguing, if not disturbing, patterns in construction output
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Severfield-Rowen plans 93 job cuts
Redundancies come as steel specialist implements restructure
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Why I think government is totally wrong on construction
The latest GDP data mean little in the grand scheme of things
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Styles & Wood expects to make half-year loss
Fit out specialist braced to go into the red for first six months of 2013
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Miliband policy adviser backs Heathrow expansion
Lord Adonis tells BCO conference that Heathrow expansion is the ‘only credible option’ for solving airport capacity crunch
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UK business 'needs better infrastructure'
Chair of Port of London Authority tells BCO conference that improving the UK’s transport infrastructure is vital
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Priority Schools Building Programme: 10 key questions answered
The current state of play with the government’s controversial programme
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Every little store helps
Tesco’s £804m writedown signals a big change for the formerly flourishing supermarket sector. Can the emerging convenience store boom make up for the loss of the out-of-town giant? Adam Branson investigates
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Project bank accounts: What's not to like?
Project bank accounts provide security of payment to contractors, reduce supply chain risk and even save the client money. They just need to be set up properly
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London 2012 suppliers: Big yourself up
Recent reports indicate many eligible firms have yet to apply for a recognition licence from the BOA. But London 2012 suppliers should take advantage - the benefits are well worth it
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Architect standards: Wrap them up in cotton wool
When things went awry with the Wests’ riverside home, and the builder was already insolvent, they sued the architect. Why? He should have taken better care of them
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Building buys a pint for … Hawkins Brown
Building discusses Chinese expansion, sporting prowess and having a 50/50 male-female split over some G Ts and Guinness in Clerkenwell
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BRE’s housing plan rejected over ‘lack of sustainability’
Council says plans for Watford homes would ‘put more pressure on schools and create more traffic’
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Sweett 'back to business as usual' as coup fails
Consultant to restart search for new institutional investors after takeover bid by Francis Ives failed
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Hansom: The art of war
A power struggle fails thanks to Sweett’s silent majority, there’s a sortie to Spain by bike, and an online mission to celebrate our anniversary
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EDF delays Hinkley funding ‘until at least September’
Exclusive: £10bn nuclear plant project six months behind revised schedule with half of jobs on site now at risk