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News
Latest construction appointments: 12 February 2010
Gary Travers has been appointed group marketing director of Cyril Sweett.
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Comment
Wonders & blunders
Esther Rantzen heaps praise on the improvised brilliance of Salisbury cathedral, and pours vitriol on the badly built eyesore that is Luton’s Library Road car park
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NewsCapita project manager on Bristol City FC
New £60m stadium receives ‘minded to approve’ verdict from local Planning Committee
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NewsOrders have fallen £17bn since 2007
ONS figures reveal largest drop took place in commercial and private housing sectors
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NewsAnnual orders figures reveal extent of freefall
Recession rips away £17bn of orders over two years
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Drost + van Veen education centre
Students from the Royal College of Art and Nottingham Trent University comment on the Netherlands scheme
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NewsCredit crunches Zaha's profit
Architect blames 69% profit drop on 'tightening of credit lines in the construction sector'
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NewsVideo: Manhattan Loft's St Pancras apartments
Harry Handelsman on the challenges of refurbishing London's neo-gothic masterpiece
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NewsJames Wates is new CITB ConstructionSkills chairman
Deputy chairman of Wates will replace Sir Michael Latham from 1 April
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NewsPublic sector must cut procurement costs
Key speakers at procurement conference call on public sector to focus on efficiency
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NewsThree shortlisted for £180m Stockton BSF
BAM Construct, Shepherd and Environments for Learning will build the first Building Schools for the Future secondary schools in the borough
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NewsOlympic team warned of B of the Bang repeat
Lawyer who solved dispute over Thomas Heatherwick sculpture urges London 2012 organizers to learn its lessons when selecting artwork
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NewsGalliford Try buys Bank of Scotland stake in joint ventures
Contractor takes back 50% share of five housebuilders with development value of £154m
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NewsMouchel issues 'perfect defence' against VT takeover bid
Trading update reveals order book is up to £2bn, after two contract wins this week
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Ruling paves way for directors to be sued for OFT fines
Directors and staff at firms implicated in the Office of Fair Trading bid rigging probe could be held personally liable for fines following a landmark court ruling.The news follows an OFT inquiry that found Safeway guilty of fixing the price of dairy products. A fine of £16.4m was imposed, later ...
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Comment
Annual orders figures reveal extent of construction freefall – a £17 billion drop in two years
The recession has ripped away from construction roughly £17 billion in annual new orders, despite £ billions more public sector sponsored work.That’s the clear message to me from the annual tot up of the new orders won by contractors released today.Forget the niceties of which sector is doing how well ...
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NewsStarting Your Own Business, part 12: Making the selection
Hiring the right person is crucial, as is making sure the client is happy for you to delegate his commission to your new recruit
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News
APC video: Risk management competence (T077)
Dean Mills puts another candidate through his APC paces
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NewsDevelopers hail levy exemption on affordable housing
Community Infrastructure Levy regulations out this week give councils power to exempt individual developments