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  • Features

    Local lowdown: South East

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Robert Smith of Hays Construction & Property reports on the booming South-east

  • Features

    Appointments

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

  • Tatton and Webb (pictured): Joining ISG as it announces a 65% drop in profit
    News

    ISG poaches two directors from Miller

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Contractor ISG InteriorExterior has poached two senior directors from rival Miller Construction to boost its national presence

  • News

    Dengenis quits as chief executive of Asite

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Tom Dengenis, chief executive and director of e-business service provider Asite, has quit. Dengenis said he was resigning for personal reasons after two-and-a-half years with the company.

  • News

    Sharewatch

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    A mixed bag

  • News

    Miller posts healthy figures but margins are ‘too thin’

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Scottish firm posts pre-tax profit of £52.5m, a rise of 31%, with housing division performing best

  • News

    Rok aims to hire 300-400 more staff this year

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Rok Property Solutions plans to take on an extra 300-400 staff this year as part of its expansion plans.

  • Comment

    In for the duration

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    We rejoice in the fact that, after 35 years of telling companies to build sustainably, it is finally becoming trendy (and legally necessary) for them to do so

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    returns from MIPIM babbling about scary politicians, semi-naked or collapsing Kens, blokes in leather shorts and some nonsense about watching fruit

  • Shape of things to come: The Redrow design for a £60,000 house
    News

    £60,000 homes contest open to all building methods

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Low construction costs more important than how houses are built, says English Partnerships director

  • News

    An Englishman’s detached home is his castle, says CABE

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Most English people want to live in a detached house, according to a CABE report that warns that increasing housing densities risks repeating the mistakes of the 1960s.

  • Woolwich Arsenal: Berkeley’s masterplan has provoked Prescott to call for a public inquiry into design quality
    News

    Prescott calls in Berkeley’s flagship project

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Deputy prime minister John Prescott and London mayor Ken Livingstone have clashed over a masterplan for a Thames Gateway regeneration site

  • News

    Data New-build completions in February

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Completions abound in London and the South-east but are harder to find in Wales and Merseyside

  • News

    Regeneration does pay

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Proving what those in the sector have known for years, English Partnerships last week launched an index that shows regenerating can make big returns, says strategy director Trevor Beattie

  • The Chalmers & Lyons show
    Features

    The Chalmers & Lyons show

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Sir Michael Lyons and Lesley Chalmers are in charge of one of the best-kept secrets in regeneration – a public–private venture set up to transform the grimmest areas in England. They are also a great comedy double act.

  • Comment

    Spot on

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Hooray. For once we’ve had a National Audit Office report that brings glad tidings for the industry (page 16).

  • Comment

    Imperfectly formed

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    The Law Commission plans to offer more protection to small businesses. Fine in principle – unless it allows small firms to exploit large loopholes

  • Comment

    Say when

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Parliament has said that a party can bring an adjudication any time between the start of the contract and the end of the world. Can it possibly have been serious?

  • Comment

    The best answer to Blyth

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    A new design-and-build agreement aims to simplify contractors’ rights of redress over design flaws that predate novation

  • Tony Blackler
    Comment

    Consumer power

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Adjudication gets a good press from the industry, so it comes as a surprise when a judge rules that it is unfair when used for disputes with consumers