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    Crest Nicholson makes £32m

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder Crest Nicholson has announced a pre-tax profit of £32m for the six months to 30 April, a rise of 32% on the same period last year.

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    Sharewatch

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    How construction fared in the City this week

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    Speedy Hire amasses £35m warchest

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Listed plant hire firm Speedy Hire has set up a £35m fund for acquisitions.

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    Eleven industry firms rank in Top Track 100

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Eleven construction firms have made it into the Top Track 100, compiled by The Sunday Times, which ranks Britain's biggest 100 private companies by total sales.

  • Comment

    Architects Week point

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Architects are 'celebrating' their very own Week, during which they will try to convince us they are about to change the world. It's a worrying trend …

  • Comment

    Hansom

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    This week, construction bigwigs in London ooze music from their pores, while on a desert island Daniel Libeskind gets jiggy with a washing machine

  • Comment

    Fault lines

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Blaming the construction manager has become a popular pastime of clients. They would be better off claiming against the real cause of their problems

  • Comment

    Fine form

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    You should welcome the arrival of the JCT's contract for major projects because it sets out your risks up front – preventing lawyers from springing them on you later

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    Big yourself up

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Architecture in Britain is basking in glory as never before.

  • Features

    Watching the waste

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Rubbish is the latest and the sexiest building material, according to this £100m recycling plant-cum-theme park on the island of Majorca

  • Making use of hot air
    News

    Workshop

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Super-efficient home ventilation, faux reclaimed brick, alluring luminaires, smart shower trays, self-levelling floors and the latest news from the factories

  • Features

    Open to the elements

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    You don't often see a wind turbine on the top of a high-rise apartment block. But that's just one of the ideas Manchester's Macintosh Village team has come up with to create this super-eco-friendly residential building.

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    Wonders & blunders

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    I applaud a bank's eco-activism in Docklands but lament the wastefulness of energy-ignorant refurbishment

  • Features

    No contest

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    As more PFI projects line up on the horizon, it seems that fewer contractors are willing to bid for them. So is the government's flagship policy in trouble? We look at the PFI model as it goes global and asks if the UK's lumbering original can compete.

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    Virtual success

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    David Bentley of NetConstruct wonders if companies know why they have websites

  • Comment

    Spurred on by sport

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    It is patent nonsense to argue that the London Development Agency's commitment to the London Olympics will undermine regeneration in the Thames Gateway (20 June, page 13).

  • Comment

    It doesn't get any easier

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    I have spent more than four decades in construction, with more than three of those in management, but your article "The dark side of construction" (27 June, page 40) still shook me.

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    Off with his head!

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    In Edinburgh last month on business, I had a chance to look at the parliament building.

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    Just do it

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    I was surprised to read Dermot Gleeson's comments on the Major Contractors Group's progress towards health and safety targets (20 June, page 15).

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    A well-oiled machine

    2003-07-04T00:00:00Z

    I hate to bring up the subject of the RICS again. I know how upsetting it is, but I had occasion to contact it, requesting any pamphlets it might have on quantity surveying.