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  • News

    Hyde quits Jarvis

    2004-09-28T16:55:00Z

    Jarvis chief executive Kevin Hyde stands down after disastrous financial year.

  • News

    RMI work helps keep BSS profit on track

    2004-09-28T11:04:00Z

    BSS says government spending was helping to counteract commercial dip as eight more PTS branches are opened.

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    Seven in frame for New Islington

    2004-09-27T17:14:00Z

    Conran and Partners, de Rijke Marsh and shedkm are among the architects on the competition shortlist for a 29-acre Millennium Community in East Manchester.

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    Prescott promises £60,000 homes in South East

    2004-09-27T15:54:00Z

    Surplus public land will be developed to provide young people with up to 10,000 affordable homes from as little as £60,000.

  • News

    Carillion JV scoops £50m health treatment centre

    2004-09-27T11:02:00Z

    Carillion’s joint venture firm Patient Choice Partners wins preferred bidder status for £50m treatment centre in Essex

  • News

    Wolseley UK sales hit £2bn

    2004-09-27T10:43:00Z

    Strong housing market helps builders' merchant Wolseley achieve record UK turnover while world-wide sales pass £10bn mark

  • News

    Five dead in Dubai airport collapse

    2004-09-27T00:00:00Z

    "Multiple" casualties after wall collapse on Laing O'Rourke new terminal job

  • Features

    Why the public loves an engineer

    2004-09-24T16:02:00Z

    Open Site proved a roaring success for the projects that opened their doors to an inquisitive public, says Matt Dawson, relationship development manager at the Association of Consulting Engineers.

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    Features

    Boris walks with the dinosaurs

    2004-09-24T15:07:00Z

    Boris Johnson pays tribute to air conditioning at the HVAC's bash at the Natural History museum.

  • News

    Joint ventures help push Pochin profit to £5m

    2004-09-24T13:18:00Z

    Profit rises to £5m despite slow start to the year in contracting and construction services.

  • News

    CITB plans industry-wide apprenticeship scheme

    2004-09-24T10:43:00Z

    Construction bodies get on board to develop initiative that could entice school-leavers away from university

  • News

    Inland revenue probes IT provider BIW

    2004-09-24T10:35:00Z

    The Inland Revenue is investigating IT project services provider BIW Technologies over tax credits it received on research and development.

  • News

    Moayedi makes shock return to construction

    2004-09-24T10:08:00Z

    Ex-Jarvis boss buys waste treatment specialist to exploit boom in reclaiming contaminated brownfield land.

  • News

    Building Homes September 2004

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

  • News

    Concrete frames

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    In the first of our specialist market overviews, Gardiner & Theobald examines the concrete sector's lead times and costs

  • Comment

    Stand and deliver

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Up until two weeks ago, we thought that 150,000 additional households were being formed every year.

  • Comment

    Doorstepping

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    We has swapped the hurly-burly of management at Berkeley Homes for the post of managing director at Silver Homes, a privately owned housebuilder developing just 20-50 upmarket homes a year in Sussex, Surrey and Kent

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    Comment

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Barry Munday, chairman of PRP Architects, explains why design codes are vital to restoring the public’s faith in the development industry

  • Features

    Precious heat

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Up until now, housebuilders have responded to demands that they improve the energy efficiency of new homes by simply adding insulation. Next year, they are going to have to do much more …

  • Features

    Now/Next

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Prefab is boring, right? So how come German manufacturer Huf Haus manages to turn off-site manufacture into something the ordinary punter gets excited about?