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  • News

    This train isn’t stopping

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    In the week of the Thames Gateway Forum, HCA director David Edwards says people shouldn’t lose faith in the mammoth project

  • News

    Citywatch: Pirc vs Perks

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Galliford Try received a shot across the boughs on Tuesday from investor lobby group PIRC, which urged shareholders to snub today’s vote on directors’ pay

  • News

    Lloyds: Relationship crucial in WYG bailout

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Lloyds Banking Group has said its strong relationship with White Young Green was vital to last week’s rescue deal with the consulting engineer

  • News

    BDP’s profits treble as directors agree to take 9% pay cut

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    The directors of Building Design Partnership, the UK’s largest architect, have taken an average 9% pay cut to help triple the company's bottom line

  • News

    Plummeting products

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Nearly nine out of 10 heavyweight construction products firms reported “significantly” falling sales in the past three months, according to data from the Construction Products Association

  • News

    Arabtec profits fall

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Arabtec, the UAE’s largest contractor, has announced a 35% fall in profit to 167m dirham (£28m) for the third quarter of 2009

  • News

    Babcock goes atomic

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Babcock International has completed its £38m purchase of the commercial arm of the UK’s Atomic Energy Agency, which handles decommissioning work in Scotland, Dorset and Oxfordshire.

  • News

    Scott Wilson buoyant

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Consulting engineer Scott Wilson Group said its half-year results would be ahead of market expectations, thanks to its work on Crossrail and the Mersey Tidal Barrage.

  • News

    Alumasc trading down

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Building and engineering products company Alumasc has said trading was down in the three months to the end of September compared with the same period in 2008.

  • News

    Cool Croydon: Willmott Dixon on Oasis Academy

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Willmott Dixon has been appointed preferred contractor by Croydon council for the £18.5m Oasis Academy in Coulsdon

  • News

    Tories pledge to simplify Gateway delivery

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    The Tory party would audit the £9bn Thames Gateway programme to make sure it “delivered and delivered well”, Stewart Jackson, the shadow regeneration minister, said yesterday

  • News

    Mothballed £700m Deptford housing scheme on track

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Plans for the £700m 3,500-home Convoys Wharf scheme in Deptford, south-east London, which floundered during the downturn, are back on track, as its new developer prepares to submit revised plans this month

  • News

    £5m for creative academy

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    The Learning and Skills Council has committed £5m to the National Skills Academy for Creative and Cultural Skills in Thurrock

  • News

    Green boost to house values

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Environmental improvements to the Gateway could add £2.5bn to housing values by 2050, according to new plans commissioned by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) from architect Sir Terry Farrell

  • News

    Future under scrutiny

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    The Smith Institute has published a book examining the future of the Thames Gateway

  • Comment

    They know how to use the sky box

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    That’s just one of the benefits of having children. But the struggle to combine work and reproduction is rewarding, exhausting and different for everybody

  • Comment

    Building buys a pint: The interiors group

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    “Do you watch Little Britain?” Adrian demands as I sit down. “Who does he look like? Go on, guess!”

  • Features

    I'm still here: Expats surviving in Dubai

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    When the recession brought work in Dubai to a virtual standstill, it triggered an exodus of expat professionals. But not everybody went home. Building talks to some of the survivors to find out how life in the UAE has changed

  • News

    Data planning applications in October

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Developer Commercial Estates Group tops the clients list, while Barratt continues to look busy

  • News

    The Grimdex: 6 November 2009

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Building’s Gloomwatch panel rates their mood on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being the most unhappy