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Features
Local lowdown: South coast
The south coast continues to attract people looking for a dose of the good life. Robert Smith of Hays Montrose reports on some of the projects in the pipeline
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Appointments
ContractorsJohn Matthews has been appointed business development manager at the Newcastle office of construction firm Gleeson. He joins Gleeson from builders’ supplier James Burrell.David McLean Contractors has promoted John Farr to director.HousebuildersThe Morris Group has promoted Garry Goodwin to planning and design director, based at the company’s head office in ...
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FeaturesFive great architects … you’ve never heard of
Jonathan Meades on the works of Douglas Stephen, Georgie Wolton, Frederick Pilkington, Sextus Dyball and Gino Coppedè … Why they’re so good – and so neglected
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Keep on trucking
This month’s market snapshot from Experian’s Business Strategies division shows that firms in most sectors are bowling along – and expect the good times to roll for the next three months
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FeaturesThe industry that time forgot
In the third of five monthly articles in association with ConstructionSkills, Building looks at how construction recruitment and training is being dragged into the 21st century.
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RICS: Output to plummet next year
Construction’s output growth rate is set to halve next year because of a sharp drop in key public sector markets, according to the latest RICS survey
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News… but T Clarke is bullish over offices
M&E contractor T Clarke has predicted a resurgence in the London office market by next year despite a 50% fall in its profit for the first half of 2004.
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CommentOn being bothered
To turn up late to a meeting is to waste time, money and goodwill. It also creates the impression of laziness and arrogance. So why does everyone keep doing it?
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CommentGarvis Snook’s path to power
As you may know, the chief executive of Rok turned his contractor from a £7m minnow into a £100m tiger shark in four years. What you may not know about is his 15-year struggle to get the chance to do it.
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CommentIt was the torpedo, stupid
Everyone finds global claims confusing but a Scottish court armed only with common sense and a First World War U-boat has helped us all out
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CommentSix ways to handle risk
Do you deal with the terrifying business of building with the help of an umbrella, an ostrich, your small intestines, your muscles, a snowboard or a mushroom?
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Tolson III: The Reckoning
Tune into the latest episode of our real-life renovation saga, where our hero and his family finally take possession and live happily ever after – apart from the snagging
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Comment
Before BUMA
You state that the Hyde Housing Association scheme in south London by Polish company BUMA, which cost £1260/m2, “brings prefabrication within Housing Corporation budgets for the first time” (23 July, page 12).
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Name that tree
To the timber industry, the names of timber, wood, hardwood and softwood are fundamental.
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FeaturesDear Chris, we wish you were here...
Chris Eubank is charming, eccentric and unpredictable. He is also part of City Partnership, the consortium mounting a last-ditch bid to save Brighton’s grade I-listed West Pier from demolition. We went to discover what the story was – and was just a little surprised at what he found
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FeaturesRiders in the sky
To be a cyclist in London today requires the kind of spirit usually shown by those piloting experimental aircraft and one-man submarines. But with a little help from prefabrication and cutting-edge plastics, tomorrow might just be different …
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NewsPersimmon has ‘no need to buy’ as profit rockets 45%
Finance boss insists housebuilder will grow organically, despite rumours that it is planning an acquisition
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NewsBroker’s notes: The tears and the triumphs …
Share prices are like the Olympics, aren’t they, dear reader? Now bear with me on this one … It’s because both are full of highs and lows.