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  • News

    Arcadis to acquire AYH

    2005-06-03T14:54:00Z

    International consultancy Arcadis is set to snap up UK QS and project manager for £16m.

  • News

    Dubai projects threatened by rising material costs

    2005-06-03T09:00:00Z

    Report by consultant Davis Langdon suggests excessive demand means prices are set to continue to increase.

  • News

    Research blames employers attitudes for poor health

    2005-06-03T09:03:00Z

    Survey reveals employer complacency on occupational health as HSE figures show no progress since summit.

  • News

    Housebuilders lobby for year’s delay to Part L tests

    2005-06-03T09:05:00Z

    Home Builders Federation seeks time to develop simplified method for meeting air-tightness requirements.

  • News

    Roofing

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Innovations for your housing project and all the latest products and suppliers feature in our guide to the materials that stop the rain getting in.

  • John Montague
    Features

    Just the job

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    John Montague exchanged life at a billion-pound turnover contractor for a career in charitably funded ‘social enterprise’.

  • Features

    Appointments

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    ContractorGeoffrey Osborne has appointed Rod Peck operations manager for its South Midlands homes division.HousebuildersAffordable housing provider Lovell has recruited Siân Byrne as business development manager for Wales.Warren O’Callaghan has been appointed part exchange manager at Fairclough Homes’ northern home counties division based at St Albans, Hertfordshire.Gary Belcher has joined Northampton-based ...

  • Simms: heading the panel that has until April to develop a sustainable procurement plan
    News

    Tougher sustainability regime on the way

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    A panel of 28 high-profile executives met for the first time last Thursday to thrash out a sustainable procurement plan,

  • News

    Sharewatch

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Sunny with odd showers

  • Pycroft: Aims to hit target of £200m turnover this year, while expanding into the USA, China and India
    News

    Pycroft sets out Mace’s five-year expansion plan

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    One hundred days into the job, Mace’s chief executive aims for £400m turnover by 2010 and targets USA

  • Comment

    Some strings attached

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    As the plan to build sustainable communities on public land begins to take shape, we should make social inclusion a condition for funding and planning permission

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Lessons on how to lure visitors to the great cities of the world: build dry ski slopes in 40°C heat and tempt Sonia into a long-awaited comeback

  • Williams: A ‘step in the right direction’
    News

    Regeneration expert to advise Miliband

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Communities and local government minister David Miliband has appointed a regeneration and local government expert as his first special adviser at the ODPM

  • Tom Curtin
    News

    Tom Curtin

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Tory control in the housing growth areas will have real effects – for good and ill

  • No go
    Features

    No go

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    There’s just one tiny problem with John Prescott’s plan for a brave new England filled with 200,000 extra homes: housebuilders seem to have lost interest in taking him there.

  • Features

    ‘Something has to give’

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    We look at planning and social housing

  • Doing good by stealth
    Features

    Doing good by stealth

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    The new chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation is a quiet American. But Hank Dittmar’s lack of showiness is well suited to a charity that is aiming to slowly and subtly transform urban England.

  • News

    Jarvis appoints FM boss to oversee business sell-off

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Support services group hires ex-ISG managing director to co-ordinate the sale of its accommodation service

  • News

    Mears boss starts work in buoy

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Stuart Black officially took up the role of chief executive of social housing repair and maintenance business Mears this week.

  • Jon Rouse, Housing Corporation
    News

    Rouse warns private firms to stop building ghettos

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Commercial housebuilders threatened with loss of public funding unless they construct more mixed communities