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  • Rok logo
    News

    Rok's profits rise 33%

    2007-03-05T11:41:00Z

    Decent Homes initiative boosts pre-tax profits

  • Carillion logo
    News

    Carillion wins 20-year contract

    2007-03-05T11:25:00Z

    £100m deal to operate stretch of M40

  • Dangerous working practice at fudge emporium
    News

    A ladder in my sights

    2007-03-05T10:00:00Z

    Neil Herbert whipped out his camera when he saw this dangerous ladder work at an Australian fudge emporium

  • Tom Broughton
    News

    Why McAlpine should be on the winner's rostrum

    2007-03-02T06:00:00Z

    McAlpine is the only contractor who wants to build the Olympic stadium so let them get on with it says Building's executive editor

  • Murray Coleman
    News

    Coleman reveals two-year recovery plan for Bovis

    2007-03-02T01:00:00Z

    Chief executive outlines strategy to deal with contractor’s £48m writedown and regime change

  • Gus Alexander
    Comment

    Autumn fog

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Gus Alexander England’s smoking ban comes into force in July, but it won’t be a problem until chilly October. And then, just you watch some bright spark invent a smokers’ pod to stick on to pubs

  • Comment

    Ancient customs

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Building revives the debating forums of the great civilisations, a housebuilding boss demonstrates a keen grasp of hieroglyphics, and a Chinese dragon blocks the way to the bar

  • Romford's new PFI hospital is arranged in four drums above a deep-plan podium, with an attached administrative drum
    Features

    In clover

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Romford can’t believe its luck. The Essex town’s new hospital is a 939-bed giant with a state-of-the-art cancer centre and a compact four-leaf clover layout that helps staff to save lives.

  • Features

    Good – but not good enough

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    The National Audit Office has just inspected the government’s city academies programme. Mark Leftly reports on what it had to say, and what the industry says in reply

  • O’Shea: Wants equity stakes for Sisk
    News

    John Sisk looks to take stakes in PFI projects

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Contractor plans to double profit with PFI investments and property development

  • Beattie: wants to work with landowners
    News

    Communities England set to drop land purchase policy

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Planned regeneration agency to switch from buying land to helping landowners develop sites

  • News

    Agency warns that eco revolution is essential

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Sir John Harman, chairman of the Environment Agency, has warned the industry that its step-by-step approach to sustainability is no longer good enough and radical change in the design of housing is essential.

  • News

    Livingstone’s green offensive

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Radical plans to improve the capital’s building stock were unveiled this week by London mayor Ken Livingstone.

  • News

    Solutions tending to zero

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Architect Feilden Clegg Bradley has been granted permission for this tower on a development billed as “the most environmentally advanced in the UK”.

  • Coleman: “Recovery will take time”
    News

    Coleman reveals two-year recovery plan for Bovis

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Chief executive outlines strategy to deal with contractor’s £48m writedown and regime change

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Rebuilding Bovis

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Among the unfortunate dramas in the construction sector recently, of which sadly there have been many, the troubles of Bovis Lend Lease would seem to be the most self-inflicted.

  • Comment

    Good intentions

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Brookdale employed Redworth under a contract for the erection of four group homes, a day care centre and associated works. The contract between the parties was made on 21 November 2003. The contract was formed from initial negotiations and discussions between the parties commencing in early 2003. Documents exchanged included ...

  • Vikki Miller
    News

    Red Ken is now Green Ken, official

    2007-03-02T12:17:00Z

    Ken Livingstone's radical plans to combat climate change in London the most ambitious of any politician

  • Tony Bingham
    News

    Sex and subbies

    2007-03-02T09:32:00Z

    There’s nothing more annoying than builders and subbies who just don’t turn up. Especially when they get distracted by a sex shop on the way to your house.

  • London Underground
    News

    Metronet faces High Court battle over delays

    2007-03-02T01:00:00Z

    London Undergroud issued writ against Tube consortium for delays on 34 schemes