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  • News

    Barratt falls behind on private completions

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder Barratt has blamed "testing market conditions" for a 1% reduction in private completions in the past six months.

  • Atkinson: Wrote to scheme members last week
    News

    Keller to close final salary pension to all staff

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    All members will be transferred to less generous scheme as engineer tackles fund's £11.3m deficit

  • John Rouse
    Comment

    The best of British

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Here's an idea: how about running a London expo to show what we want from the Olympic Games, the Thames Gateway, the Communities Plan and the future of the UK …

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    Comment

    Hansom

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    This week our bon vivant diarist divides his time between the House of Lords, Las Vegas and a north London nuclear fall-out shelter …

  • CZGW’s masterplan will reconnect the city centre with the River Wear
    News

    Tesco ready to admit defeat in Sunderland

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Tesco is set to throw in the towel in its long running battle over a key regeneration site in Sunderland.

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    News

    The first city

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Chris Brown on what the rest of the UK can learn from Manchester

  • 4: Yet another glass skyscraper is being hatched, this time 43 storeys high, for a site next to the Victorian law courts and to be developed by Albany Assets
    Features

    Ian Simpson

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    This man knows a thing or two about civic identity and pride of place: after all he’s the architect behind the buildings that have defined modern Manchester. Here he tells Martin Spring why London should watch and learn …

  • Rudi Klein
    Comment

    One-star review

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    The DTI has unveiled its proposals to amend the Construction Act. But if the government wants to stop payment abuses, it's not really going about it the right way

  • Comment

    Just don't do it

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Adjudicators who try to dig up supporting evidence where it is lacking are committing a grave error - and playing into the hands of their detractors

  • Comment

    Get ready to share

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    You've all heard of the Freedom of Information Act, but what developers really need to worry about is the Environmental Information Regulations. Here's why...

  • Rupert Choat
    Comment

    Developers 1, subbies 0

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Contractors and their clients should cheer the latest action from the Construction Act review. Those further down the supply chain, however, might face a drubbing

  • Sheppard Robson’s offices in Spinningfields, the largest mixed-use scheme in north-west England
    Comment

    Mixed-use Mecca

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Large mixed-use schemes are reviving the heart of Manchester, but the complexity of these developments means standard form contracts are rarely up to the job

  • Manchester Civil Justice Centre
    Features

    24 hour construction city

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Here are six construction sites that epitomise Manchester's changing cityscape, from a slum regeneration in a stricken suburb to this £1bn legal district being built in the heart of the commercial centre.

  • Greater Manchester
    Features

    Greater expectations

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Nearly £5bn will be spent on capital projects across the 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester before 2014. Martin Spring maps the extent of the boom's butterfly effect.

  • Tony Wilson, pop impresario, news journalist, regeneration guru and now – along with partner Yvette Livesey
    Features

    The making of Manchester

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    First there were derelict warehouses and deserted mills, the wreckage of a great industrial past. Then came music and madness of a generation liberated from that tradition. And at the centre of this Manchester was Factory Records and the Hacienda, both the creation of Tony Wilson, pop impresario, news journalist, ...

  • News

    Architect researches office life

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Architect Swanke Hayden Connell has been signed up by the British Council for Offices to work out if there is a causal link between office design and business productivity.

  • News

    Industry views sought on court changes

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    The Technology and Construction Court is seeking industry views on two key proposals put forward this week to change the way construction disputes are handled.

  • Scott Brownrigg-designed school in Hillingdon, west London
    News

    Top marks

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Construction has begun on this Scott Brownrigg-designed school in Hillingdon, west London. The first phase, which includes an adult education unit, will be completed this summer.

  • Gaunt Francis and planning consultant DP9 have submitted this planning proposal to rejuvenate St Katharine Docks in east London
    News

    Kate the Great

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Architect Gaunt Francis and planning consultant DP9 have submitted this planning proposal to rejuvenate St Katharine Docks in east London.

  • News

    Building manager jailed for manslaughter of employee

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Head of A&E Building sentenced to 18 months after worker fell to his death from defective telehandler