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NewsMitie plans memorial to founder
The board of support services group Mitie is planning to dedicate a memorial to David Telling, its founder, who died at the end of October
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Ballast boardroom: The desperate days
Leaked documents reveal how the Ballast board told senior personnel to 'show some sense of excitement and hope about the refreshed Ballast plc' while the company was falling apart around their ears
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Tendring goes into administration
Regional contractor Tendring Construction has been placed into administration.
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NewsPolice arrest John Aviss over collapse of Bickerton
Former owner of failed regional contractor is arrested, along with six others, by Serious Fraud Office
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NewsHousebuilders criticised by Barker report
A report by economist Kate Barker has blamed housebuilders and planners for Britain's undersupply of housing.
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NewsCSCS cards to be required for all Whitehall work
Government steps up pressure to train as Constructing Excellence predicts formation of construction university
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RTPI challenges planning targets
The Royal Town Planning Institute has launched a campaign to scrap targets imposed by government to speed up planning approval
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Electricians at Terminal 5 agree £50,000 pay deal
Electrical workers on Heathrow scheme finally strike a deal comparable to skilled building workers' agreement
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Strategic forum sets out six-point plan for industry
Strategic Forum chairman Peter Rogers has set out a six-point plan to improve the UK construction industry.
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NewsFancy a ziggurat?
Here are some present ideas for the architecture buffs in your life: everything from bendy, trendy biomorphics to the monuments of ancient Mesopotamia.
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Minority report
We examine the implications of new laws introduced to tackle religious and sexual discrimination in the workplace
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FeaturesCost model: PFI hospitals
Capital investment is pouring into the NHS and the prognosis for improved performance is good. In this month’s cost model examine the aims of the hospital programme, probe design issues, and break down the price of adding a trauma unit to an existing hospital
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NewsBroker's notes: What the Sex Pistols can teach us
"I yam an antichrist! I yam an anarchist!" I'm not really either, of course.
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Crack house crackdown
Didn't think the Queen's Speech was radical enough? Get a load of John Prescott's housing bill – it aims to tackle many of the more egregious abuses
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FeaturesMission: impossible
Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Take apart an entire British Army town in Kosovo and put it up again in war-torn Basra, Iraq, in time for new year. Sounds tough? We report on who was up to the task without self-destructing …
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Viva Bambi!
Nick Henchie's claim that the Be Collaborative contract offers little in the way of practical assistance is given short shrift by one of the contract's writers
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FeaturesTo the bastion
Francisco Mangado's concert hall in Pamplona has received rapturous applause from the locals … well, all except the odd terrorist. We take a peek into a peculiar tale
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Et tu, Simon?
You'd think a construction lawyer embarking on his own building work would draw on his experience to ensure that he didn't end up at a well-known creek. Well …
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Rolfe Judd plans £250m Cambridge revamp
Architect Rolfe Judd is working on a giant masterplan to redevelop 12 ha around Cambridge railway station at a cost of more than £250m.