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  • News

    Mace profit soars 72% in 2002

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    Diversification and strong overseas sales pay dividends for construction manager that has spread its wings

  • Features

    Bovis loses monthly heats but wins yearly tournament

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    Contractor remains triumphant in annual league as its other pole position is snatched by HBG's strong month

  • Comment

    Suspect everyone

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    Look, it's nothing personal but I just don't trust any of you – and you'd be mad to trust me or each other. If we could all understand this, there'd a lot less grief

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    Doubts emerge over future of Mansell chief executive

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    Philip Cleaver remains tight-lipped over rumours that he is set to leave next year after Balfour Beatty takeover

  • News

    John Sisk poised to buy Bristol contractor

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    Irish construction group John Sisk is on the brink of buying Bideem, a Bristol contractor with a turnover of £20m

  • News

    MSPs given false Holyrood cost estimate

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    The real cost estimate of the Scottish parliament building was withheld from MSPs when they voted to go ahead with it in 1999, the Fraser inquiry heard this week.

  • News

    BAA cuts Richard Rogers out of design framework deal

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    Foster, Grimshaw, Parr, Ruddle Wilkinson and Reid all land five-year contracts as airport operator drops five firms

  • News

    Call to end student planners' debt

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    The chairman of the Local Government Association has called on the government to arrest the fall in the number of planning officers by helping graduate planners pay off college debts

  • News

    Lewisham scraps Alsop masterplan and starts over

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    £45m New Cross Gate development is reopened to competition after ‘aspirational’ plans are snubbed

  • News

    Gaunt Francis maps out Formula 1 academy

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    Architect Gaunt Francis has designed a £4m training centre for racing drivers at the Silverstone track in Northamptonshire.

  • News

    Review of the year - 2003

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    2003 brought 12 months of drama, boardroom rivalry, epic overruns, and ballooning budgets. If you feel like you missed some of the action, our blockbusting review of the year will fill in the gaps

  • Features

    Just the job

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    Colin James tells us how he used his construction background to found his own IT consultancy

  • Comment

    The couch brigade

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    Billions have been earmarked for new schools and hospitals, but who's going to build them? Either we rely on the Europeans – or we poach a few psychiatrists

  • Comment

    Hansom

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    This week, a Japanese contractor offers a lesson in worst practice, Ken laughs off his early congestion charge fears and Christmas raises hellfire in the office

  • Comment

    Costa bundle

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    Forward funding agreements for property in Spain are almost as popular as beach resorts. But you'd better know how Spanish law treats them or risk paying out

  • Features

    Hot stuff: Top 10 industry issues

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    We run down the juiciest topics of conversation in the industry this year

  • Features

    The best of what happened

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    Here's a month-by-month summary of the biggest news stories to catch our eye throughout the year

  • Features

    Big deals

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    Family strife, collapsing contractors and shrinking balance sheets … we review a dramatic business year

  • Features

    Odd Couples

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    We pick the top five double acts of 2003

  • Features

    Case studies

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    Legal editor Justin McGuirk's miscellany