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  • News

    Wembley drafts in extra M&E workers

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Extra M&E workers are to be drafted onto the Wembley stadium project as contractors on the scheme attempt to meet its deadline for completion

  • Ambitious new chief executive Alan Hope says contractor can hit £300m turnover by 2010
    News

    Midas boss plans 15% growth in next five years

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Ambitious new chief executive Alan Hope says contractor can hit £300m turnover by 2010

  • News

    Urban Splash set to land its first contract in London

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Manchester developer has been shortlisted to redevelop rundown Packington Estate in Islington, north London

  • News

    Industry in talks to speed up PFI hospitals

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health is in talks with leading PFI professionals to find ways of speeding up the agreement of contract variations at large hospital scheme.

  • News

    Confederation threatens to walk out of CIS tax talks

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Construction Confederation leads calls to pull out of Revenue negotiations unless April deadline is dropped

  • News

    Eco-city to be model for China

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Consultant Arup’s masterplan for an entirely sustainable city near Shanghai could be used as a model to be rolled out across China.

  • News

    Industry wastes 3bn a year through poor logistics

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Construction Products Association survey claims that workers lose 10% of each day waiting for materials

  • News

    Plan to wave low-carbon schemes through planning

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Energy Saving Trust to present DTI with a series of radical proposals to stimulate energy-efficient construction

  • Features

    Just the job

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Leaving school at 16 hasn’t stopped Nick Rowling from pursuing a career as a building surveyor

  • Features

    Appointments

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

  • Comment

    Dear Bill …

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    One is an arch defender of the quaint and traditional Dorset village dreamed up by Prince Charles, the other is the architect of south London’s cutting-edge, solar urbanist community. So what would Michael Mehaffy, director of education at the Prince’s Foundation, and Bill Dunster find to talk about?

  • News

    Hammerson’s profit up 22% after ‘robust’ performance

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Interim pre-tax profit at developer Hammerson jumped almost 22%, according to results published this week.

  • News

    Irish firm is damp squib in Europe – but storms the States

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Irish materials firm CRH made up for a poor performance in Europe with strong American results. It ended the first half of the year with pre-tax profit of £261m, 20% up on the £217m it made in the same period last year.

  • Gus Alexander
    Comment

    Move over, Don Quixote

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Here’s the inspiring story of one man’s extraordinary, insane, visionary quest to attach a small illuminated sign to the side of a listed building

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    This week, we admire the subtle manoeuvrings of strategic masters such as Richard Bowker, Keith Mills, Jon Rouse, Liz Bridge and, of course, Paul Gascoigne

  • Award contender: Bellway’s Harbourside East, in Littlehampton, West Sussex
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    Building Communities Awards shortlist revealed

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Bellway, Berkeley Homes, Barratt Developments and London & Quadrant Group are among the names shortlisted in the Building Communities Awards 2005.

  • Jennie Price
    Features

    She’s back

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Jennie Price, the famously combative former boss of the Construction Confederation, has been absent from the industry for some years. Now she’s returned, accompanied by … a row

  • The “Three Made Places” comprise a void cut of the snow, a standing monolith and an elongated horizontal box
    Features

    Frozen warnings

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Peter Clegg went with sculptor Antony Gormley to the Arctic Circle to create bleakly beautiful representations of the human body, a planet and a dead friend

  • A spot of pampering
    Features

    Taking care of business

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    A spot of pampering is all it takes to win a client’s heart and ensure it never wants to let you go. Building reports on how one contractor plans to cash in by supplying that little bit extra

  • Ann Minogue
    Comment

    The fiddle of fitness

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Whether you’re a building contractor or a pastry-making equipment supplier, the fitness-for-purpose debate rages on – and it isn’t getting any easier