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Wonders & blunders
Nick Mason pins a medal on a relic of Victorian engineering, but regrets his mispent youth as an architecture critic
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Appointments
ContractorSteven Trim has joined Dorset family builder CG Fry & Son as trainee site manager.HousebuildersTaylor Woodrow has promoted Andrew Ridley-Barker to divisional director of the firm’s construction division. John Lohan has been appointed head of supplier development.Bellwinch Homes has appointed Jason Capel to the post of market researcher. Isobel German ...
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FeaturesJust the job
JM Erasmus explains why he left South Africa and accountancy for a life of cost management in London
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Investment in commercial sector to create mini boom
RICS survey predicts that rush to invest in offices is about to boost construction firms’ workload and profit
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Galliford Try set fair to make
Contractor Galliford Try is on course to make a record half-year profit when it announces its interim results in February.
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NewsWolseley spends £41m in latest acquisition spree
Building materials giant gets even bigger after it buys four companies in North America and Europe
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London office rents most expensive in world
London’s West End is the most expensive office location in the world, according to a report published by property services firm DTZ.
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Multiplex set to float in UK
Multiplex, the Australian contractor and developer, is considering a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange to boost its presence in the UK.
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FeaturesSo I changed my mind …
Peter Dixon is the man in charge of a £422m PFI hospital in London. He has also written in a national newspaper that hospital PFIs have been a ‘costly failure’. We invite him to explain himself – after which we get a second opinion from a woman with very definite ...
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FeaturesThe case against
If Allyson Pollock is right, it won’t be long before PFI hospitals introduce extra charges for anaesthetic. We find out why.
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Urban scrawl
Will Alsop’s exuberance may have been boxed in at Goldsmiths College, but his playfulness still extrudes itself onto the skyline as a silvery, sculptural squiggle. Martin Spring visits the provocative building on the busy New Cross Road.
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NewsV&A plans Battersea showcase
Representatives from the Victoria & Albert Museum have met architect Grimshaw to discuss creating an exhibition space at the refurbished Battersea Power Station
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Four picked for Stansted redevelopment
Airport operator BAA has selected four consultants to join the project team for its redevelopment of Stansted airport, known as Stansted Generation 2.
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Royal appointment
The latest plans for the Kings Waterfront site in Liverpool have been given the go-ahead by the city council’s planning committee.
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NewsODPM faces the axe after next general election
Both Labour and Tories are considering radical changes to John Prescott’s superministry
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NewsFeilden: Architect who stretched the boundaries
Five years before his death last week while felling an ash tree, the architect Richard Feilden was honoured with an OBE. To receive the award he cycled down the Mall to Buckingham Palace in top hat and tails. The Queen was amused: she chatted to him about his unconventional transport
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NewsRock accuses Countryside of blocking its bid
Investment vehicle Rock Pacific has accused housebuilder Countryside Properties of preventing it from making a bid by failing to provide key financial information
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Bovis Homes predicts healthy pre-tax profit
Housebuilder Bovis Homes Group said this week that it remained on course to make a record pre-tax profit in line with market expectations.
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Housing groups plan merger
Midlands social housing groups Keynote and Prime Focus are in talks about merging to create a single group with assets valued at almost £1bn.