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  • lovestruck colleagues
    Features

    How to survive … an office romance

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Amaya Lopez offers lovestruck colleagues a 10-step guide on how to avoid losing your job and breaking hearts

  • David Jones
    Features

    Appointments

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week...

  • News

    Capita Symonds hits £200m

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Consultant Capita Symonds this week said that it had become a £200m-turnover business.

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    Rock and William Pears form LIFT joint venture

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Rock Consulting, the PPP management consultant, and support services group William Pears have set up a company to operate in the NHS LIFT market.

  • John McDonough of Carillion
    News

    Shortlists announced for 2006 Building Awards

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    The winner will be announced at a ceremony at Grosvenor House Hotel on 4 April.

  • Persimmon’s John White (left) and Taylor Woodrow’s Iain Napier have posted contrasting results
    News

    Persimmon thrives as Taylor Woodrow falters

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    There were contrasting fortunes for two of the the UK's largest volume housebuilders this week.

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    What are the connections: Mace and an East End hard nut; Richard Rogers and the Windsors; Boris Johnson and Jaws; Renzo Piano and the X Factor? Read on …

  • News

    Help us to help you

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    The government must not hinder efforts on customer satisfaction.

  • Craig Phillips
    Features

    A self-made man

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Craig Phillips is not your typical Big Brother survivor, scraping a living from their diminishing fame. Rather, he has invested his vast energy in a vast range of projects, including a skills centre in his native Liverpool.

  • The rippling forms facing the park are created by horseshoe-shaped lecture halls shaded by hanging gardens
    Features

    Equatorial chic

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Edward Cullinan Architects knew how to design a university, but not how to design one in a country where the annual temperature varies between 85 and 89°F. Yet its solution was brilliant...

  • Features

    Now you're one of us

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    After four months of gruelling round-the-clock negotiations, Carillion finally handed over £313m and took control of its similarly sized rival Mowlem. Now the hard part begins …. Illustration by Elliot Thoburn

  • News

    Parliament to get new entrance

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    The Houses of Parliament is to have a visitors' centre, designed by Architects Design Partnership.

  • News

    Sir Robert McAlpine to win ‘Snoasis' resort

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Sir Robert McAlpine is set to build the Snoasis winter leisure resort in Suffolk after its sole rival Mowlem withdrew from the bidding process.

  • News

    New kid on the block

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Aedas Architects has submitted this £38m scheme to Manchester council for approval.

  • News

    Out in Africa

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    A 4500 m2 British embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe, has been designed for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office by Manser.

  • microphone image
    Comment

    One fell swoop

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    The housing minister seems to like the idea of changing the regulation-making process. Might it be, asks Paul Everall, that in future all changes happen at the same time?

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    McDonough's gamble

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    A minute's silence, please, for the passing away of an industry giant.

  • Carillion HQ
    News

    Carillion regroups for future as £4bn megacontractor

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Company puts finishing touches to Mowlem deal as chief executive John McDonough draws up fresh structure

  • News

    ‘Change of tide' detected by becalmed PFI hospitals

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    NHS trusts waiting for the green light from the government on stalled PFI schemes have reacted with cautious optimism to the news that the £1.1bn Barts and Royal Hospital project is expected to get the go-ahead this week.

  • Architect Furneaux Stewart has unveiled this design for a egional casino at the proposed International Sports Village in Cardiff.
    News

    Cardiff goes for the jackpot

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Architect Furneaux Stewart has unveiled this design for a regional casino at the proposed International Sports Village in Cardiff.