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    Hansom

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Our correspondent stalks the corridors and canteens and, indeed, toilets of power this week in his endless search for those things the government doesn't want you to see

  • I-Life solution: £65k homes for first-time buyers
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    David Wilson Homes to snub tariff areas

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    David Wilson Homes will not build its new range of homes for first-time buyers where councils operate planning tariffs or make steep demands for affordable housing contributions.

  • Tom Dacey: A 'strategic' decision
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    Transfer pull-out set to hit housebuilders

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders could lose major estate regeneration work because one of the UK's biggest housing associations looks set to pull out of stock transfer schemes.

  • Mark Andrews
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    Out of the shadows

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    The internal life of NG Bailey, the UK's largest M&E firm, has always been a dark secret. Now chief executive Mark Andrews has given its first interview, and in it he talks (fairly) frankly about past troubles and future plans.

  • Alsop & Partners set out to connect inside and outside by means of a solid, timber-clad vault that is extruded at one end in transparent glass.
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    Could you live here?

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Well, somebody is going to - these extraordinary houses, designed by top architects for an idyllic Cotswolds location, have all just won planning permission.

  • Rachel Barnes
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    This one won't fly

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    The latest edition of the NEC professional services contract came out in June but has been all but ignored. The reasons for this are not hard to understand

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    The greater good

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    The treatment of Sir Roy Meadows, the paediatrician who gave evidence in the case of Sally Clarke, raises larger issues about how we protect the judicial process

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    It's tough at the top

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Company directors are envied for their status and salary, but soon they could be subject to a wave of legal claims with no guarantee their insurance will cover them

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    Lost in the labyrinth?

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Tax tips: Want to know about tax breaks? Malcolm Nichols from accountant Menzies kicks off a series on organising your finances by charting a way through the maze that is VAT

  • Jason Leonard
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    Underwood, to Leonard, to Deacon … and it's Edwards!

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    As you may have noticed, it's Six Nations time, a riot of colour, national pride and surreptitious eye-gouging. What's it got to do with construction? Well, it just so happens that some very big names have brought their formidable talents to the industry. Building headed down to Twickers to hear ...

  • An evolving 10-year masterplan including parkland, mews houses and glass-fronted apartments and culminating in a 20-storey eco-tower: has Birmingham found the definitive way of transforming urban sink estates?
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    10 years younger (how to transform a decrepit sink estate into an urban utopia in a single decade)

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    An evolving 10-year masterplan including parkland, mews houses and glass-fronted apartments and culminating in a 20-storey eco-tower: has Birmingham found the definitive way of transforming urban sink estates?

  • Features

    Projects update: Health and safety

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    A round-up of what's new in the world of health and safety, from teaching modules to prevent children injuring themselves in quarries to paying a safety bonus to operatives

  • Cocktail and cherry
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    How to be a staggering success

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    It's that time of the year again - when the industry decamps to the south of France for a vigorous mix of business and pleasure … Josh Brooks and George Hay asked five attendees to name the highlights, and the pitfalls, of MIPIM 2006

  • Golden Globe King’s Lynn Customs House
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    Wonders & blunders

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Two dockside buildings, both of them famous film locations - but one's a hit and the other's a turkey.

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    Back issues

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Registration raises its ugly head … and fears over the Thames

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    The best seat in China

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Her neighbours might not agree with her, but watching Beijing grow ever skywards has been great armchair entertainment for one of Building's graduate panelists

  • News

    Tesco reconsiders Gerrards Cross

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has asked Costain to conduct a review of its troubled £25m Gerrards Cross project after the dismissal of original contractor Jackson Civil Engineering.

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    Corgi man takes the helm at CSCS

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Corgi director Brian Adams has been appointed the first chief executive of the CSCS scheme.

  • Methodist Central Hall in Westminster
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    Potter's place

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    London-based contractor Killby & Gayford has completed a £5.2m refurbishment of the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster.

  • Wates: Entering ‘hiatus period’
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    New Strategic Forum boss to narrow focus on key issues

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    James Wates will use chairmanship to reduce the body's remit in order to prevent it losing influence