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MCG sets up health scheme
The Major Contractors Group will next week launch its occupational health scheme for the construction industry.
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Auntie helps Bovis to top with £530m in February
Bovis Lend Lease also extends lead over Laing in annual tables – now £550m ahead at £1.8bn
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FeaturesPower shift
Remember the rancid system-built slums they put up across the country, from East Kilbride to south Acton? And the people who dressed their children in damp clothes every morning while they waited for the government or the council to get them out? Well this last extract from CABE/RIBA's Housing 2024 ...
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Local lowdown
With increased public spending in the North-east, demand for housing professionals is high. Robert Smith of Hays Montrose looks at what's on offer
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Laing back in black after switch to PFI
Laing is back in the black after transforming itself from a traditional contractor to a PFI investment specialist.
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Sorry, I'm a bit tied up
If the growth forecast in Gordon Brown's Budget is to prove more than a confidence trick, the chancellor can start by slashing the red tape strangling construction
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FeaturesHappy to be here
As the UK prepares to welcome to Eastern European workers in May, we meet Yolanda Dwornik, a Polish immigrant from an earlier generation who made it to this country against very long odds indeed.
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Labour takes the gloves off
Has the penny finally dropped at Whitehall? It's a truism of British politics that every party runs for election on the promise of freeing business from the dead hand of state regulation.
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CommentGuilty bystanders
Under the Proceeds of Crime Act introduced last year, if you suspect dodgy practices on site but keep shtoom, the authorities will see you as the criminal
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Just what we wanted
Graham Watts, chief executive of the Construction Industry Council, explains why he lobbied for CIPER and why it has a vital role to play
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Blunkett set to strip officials of crown immunity
The Government is considering bringing forward legislation to remove a 1000-year-old law protecting crown servants from prosecution for actions carried out in the course of their jobs.
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NewsBridge on the River Cam
Whitbybird Bridges Team, a subsidiary of consulting engineer Whitbybird, has won a competition to design a pedestrian bridge in Cambridge. When completed in early 2006 it will be the first bridge to be built over the Cam for 40 years. The team, which includes sculptor Gerry Judah, beat off ...
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Manchester's Millennium Quarter wins Civic Trust gong
The Millennium Quarter in Manchester was among the winners of the nine 2004 Civic Trust special awards presented in Bristol last Wednesday.
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NewsNAO to probe state procurement
The National Audit Office, parliament's public spending watchdog, is to assess the extent to which the government has adopted Egan procurement methods such as partnering
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Liverpool FC spurns Morgan's millions
Steve Morgan, the former chairman of housebuilder Redrow, has had a bid to inject £50m into Liverpool football club rejected.
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NewsIsland hopping
Guernsey this week opens the £16.5m airport terminal designed by architect Kensington Taylor of Exeter and Babtie Engineering. The symmetrical building has a central concourse, aerofoil-shaped roofs and a trio of criss-crossing Y-shaped columns at the front. It was built by German contractor Hochtief with Davis Langdon & Everest ...
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Housebuilders slam ODPM over Barker review
Housebuilders have criticised the government this week for failing to support the Barker review on the undersupply of housing.