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  • Comment

    The mayor responds

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Your article "Mayor gives zero-carbon scheme green light" (3 February) is wrong to suggest that I have not been implementing my energy strategy.

  • Comment

    LIFT miffed

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Your article on LIFT (3 February) tries to damn what is generally accepted as a successful programme using a single case where things haven't worked out.

  • Comment

    A doctor writes

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    I feel you have grossly misrepresented my views in the article.

  • Comment

    The LIFT list

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    The article was not only inaccurate but painted a totally false picture of LIFT generally and the progress to date in Wigan.

  • Comment

    The levy won't break

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Your report "M&E skills levy plan under threat" (3 February) inaccurately states that the government is rethinking the wisdom of the levy systems as a result of a decline in support for the CITB-ConstructionSkills levy.

  • three workmen working on a piece of wood  precariously balanced on a door
    Comment

    Safety blunders

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    As long as there are at least three of us balancing on this door, it should be alright …

  • Visualisations showing the entertainment district outside the arena.
    Features

    Return of the dome

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    London's most famous white elephant is being reborn as an American-style entertainment behemoth complete with cinema, bars, clubs and an arena that can range from 3500 seats to 23,000.

  • Milton Keynes
    Features

    The Eurovision house contest

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Welcome to Europan, the competition in which young European architects design housing schemes for 74 sites across the continent. Here are the designs that triumphed in the UK

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    Comment

    Hansom

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Who got pipped to the post by David Higgins? Who wants to take over the world? And which QS cowered before our sporting prowess? Answers below …

  • Matador illustration
    Features

    An unexpected Spanish acquisition

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Ferrovial, Spain's most aggressive construction company, has shocked the UK industry by revealing its intentions of buying British airport operating giant BAA. But is it really that much of a surprise, asks Mark Leftly - and can the matador win its fight?

  • News

    McCarthy & Stone sells more freeholds for £11.4m

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Retirement home specialist McCarthy & Stone has continued its sell-off of property freeholds with an £11.4m deal.

  • News

    Evans to join Linden Homes

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Linden Homes has appointed David Evans technical and commercial director for its operations in the South-east.

  • News

    Consultants link up for northern expansion

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Construction consultant John Rowan & Partners and Walker Sime, a project manager and quantity surveyor, have formed an alliance.

  • News

    Treasury bullish despite failure of past land taxes

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    The Treasury has dismissed fears that the planning gain supplement is unworkable despite the failure of three similar land taxes since the Second World War.

  • News

    Much pain for little gain: regeneration experts slate PGS

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Regeneration experts and academics have lined up to criticise the government's proposal for a planning gain supplement.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    The new conquistadors

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    "If the Spanish come storming ashore, it will be the most audacious foreign bid for a British company in history."

  • Architect Watermans has been selected to masterplan the latest Chinese megaproject, the 53 km2 Tianjin Bin Hai New City.
    News

    City break

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Architect Watermans has been selected to masterplan the latest Chinese megaproject, the 53 km2 Tianjin Bin Hai New City.

  • News

    PFI expert bids for CTRL firm

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Former top PFI adviser Sir Adrian Montague has launched a bid to buy London & Continental Railways, the company behind the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.

  • News

    Potential partners contact Ferrovial over BAA bid

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    A host of potential consortium partners have this week been linked to Spanish contractor Ferrovial's possible bid for airport operator BAA.

  • Nuclear operator: BNG runs the Sellafield plant
    News

    Atkins joins race to buy nuclear waste body

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Consultant Atkins is to join Amec in the race to acquire British Nuclear Group, the decommissioning arm of the government's nuclear body, British Nuclear Fuels.