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    JCB to cut 500 jobs

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    JCB has announced its intention to axe 500 manufacturing jobs in the UK, in the first wave of redundancies to hit the construction plant sector.

  • Seen from the road 20m up the cliff face, Riverhouse presents a shallow copper barrel-vault plus a jumble of other forms
    Features

    The Riverhouse project: Nautical but nice

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    A tidal wave of protest greeted this modern development sitting alongside traditional houses on the Dartmouth estuary. But the Riverhouse delights in its views, sense of space and daylight. Quite enough to shut the neighbours up, says Martin Spring

  • Comment

    These are all mistakes

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    After superb journalistic sleuthing (and a case of Scotch in the right hands) we have a draft of the next report to shake up construction. Chris Addison runs through the main points

  • Comment

    Building buys a pint … for John Doyle

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Chosen watering hole: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Ambience: Rambling spit’n’sawdust joint for the not-quite-in-the-City worker Topics of conversation: Yorkshire, the Moseley trial, the housing market, the rest of the market Drinks drunk: 10 pints bitter, 4 pints lager, 2 glasses red wine, 6 glasses white wine, 3 cokes

  • Features

    How to find happiness

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    A recent survey found that construction workers are more miserable in their jobs than anyone else. But fear not, here’s Building’s comprehensive guide to happiness, plus an indispensable quiz to find out how bad things really are.

  • News

    Supermarket competition test delayed

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    The government has delayed a decision on whether to introduce a “competition test” for new supermarkets amid concerns over a legal challenge by Tesco.

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    Final approval for Manchester’s Holt Town regeneration

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Developers have signed a section 106 agreement with Manchester council allowing the final approval of the 4,300-home Holt Town regeneration scheme east of the city centre.

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    The rake’s progress: housebuilders

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders don’t like to get tied down. As soon as a scheme’s built and sold, they move on. So why are they suddenly forming longer-term attachments? Ben Cook finds out what it’s all about

  • Comment

    Doesn't measure up

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    I criticised the RICS for years and wrote several times seeking changes in favour of its members, particularly a review of its budget so that the annual subscription fees could be reduced.

  • Comment

    Bad start for Boris

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    I see Boris Johnson, the London mayor, plans to reinstate Parker Morris space standards in London’s new housing (27 June, page 12).

  • Though Chongqing may have a beautiful skyline, the city may be smaller than some suggest …
    Comment

    Chinese whispers

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Li Shirong, from the Chongqing Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Commission, has a mission to promote development and investment in her city.

  • Comment

    Fast track to the future

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    The government’s announcement on 23 June about speeding up the Building Schools For the Future programme is very welcome.

  • Comment

    Let’s start at the very beginning

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Your article “Government failing on sustainable procurement” (4 June, www.building.co.uk) emphasised the importance of sustainable procurement practices in the construction industry.

  • Comment

    In the detail

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

  • Features

    Chaos theory: Gehry’s Serpentine pavilion

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Gehry’s Serpentine pavilion may look like timber and glass thrown together, but precise planning went into getting it just right, says Martin Spring

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    The path to happiness

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Happiness, there’s not too much of it around in construction at the moment.

  • Features

    Construction’s allies with the CBI - industrial strength lobbying

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    It’s a truism of construction that its political power doesn’t reflect its size. Now its leaders are trying to change that by consolidating, unifying and forming an alliance with the CBI. Sarah Richardson reports

  • News

    Blink and you'll miss it: Sculpture at Goodwood

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    This sculpture was on show last weekend at this year’s Festival of Speed in Goodwood, West Sussex

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    £5bn Greenwich Peninsula hits problems

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Developers Quintain and Lend Lease could be forced to build most of the £5bn Greenwich Peninsula scheme themselves, it has emerged.

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    Flint’s rescue package

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Housing minister Caroline Flint announced a series of measures to support the housing market on Wednesday.