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  • Features

    Local lowdown

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    The south-west of England has never been livelier, with construction jobs and salaries surfing a wave of development, says Robert Smith of Hays Montrose

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    Beyond the automobile

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    Ford has helped turn its mammoth Dagenham car plant into a pioneering technical education centre – and its first customers will be the former factory's workers. Oh, and it looks fantastic, too. Who said history was bunk?

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    Hyder leaves Asia to focus on Australia

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Listed engineering group Hyder Consulting is redirecting its Asian operation from the continental mainland to Australia.

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    Contractors will cash in their PFI bets

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Last week's decision by Carillion and Atkins to cash in their equity in PFI projects looks like signalling a trend among contractors. We look at what is driving the process

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    Philip Cleaver on …Selling Mansell to Balfour Beatty

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    My take on selling Mansell is that we faced the same problems that most unlisted firms eventually encounter.

  • Comment

    Here starteth the lesson

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    An initiative to promote training on social housing projects should show the industry how to shed its insecurities and secure its future

  • Comment

    Hansom

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    This week, an eccentric industry luncheon, an unusual contractual obligation and the firm that tried to do something different for Christmas

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    Mix and match

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Jeremy Paxton is a property developer with a sense of fun – as you might guess from this holiday home estate, which puts chocolate box cottages next to hard-core modernist homes. But there's a price to pay, as we find out …

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    David Curry

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    A report by the Housing Corporation offers some tantalising ideas on low cost home ownership schemes. But does the government have the imagination to follow them through?

  • Features

    The x factor

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Squeezing a million extra visitors into New York would be an Olympian feat, but the team bidding against London to host the 2012 games has developed a race advantage. They call it the Olympic X

  • Comment

    Just a few complicated points

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    It's not easy, but firms negotiating PFI deals must identify the risks they're running. Here's how to go about the job

  • Comment

    Who've you been seeing?

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Natural justice and adjudication can be a jealous and suspicious couple. But a recent case has led to guidelines that could smooth out some of the tensions

  • News

    Workshop

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    To counter the cold, dark winter nights, this week's products throw light on window systems and fluorescent lamps and keep you toasty with thermally efficient plaster. Plus, the latest gossip from the makers

  • Features

    Going down a storm

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    The Met Office has just moved all its staff and forecasting equipment to a purpose built facility in balmy Devon – without a second's break in its service. We found out how the project team made a tricky transition into a summer breeze

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    Very enlightening

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    HOK Conservation has completed an £8m restoration of the oldest part of the British Museum. Completed in 1827 the King's Library – one of the noblest neoclassical halls in Europe – has been converted into a gallery. The hall, which houses a permanent exhibition devoted to the enlightenment, has ...

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    Three Skanska UK directors get the chop in reshuffle

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Skanska UK has slimmed down its management board from 10 to seven to create a tighter-knit team.

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    Surveyors win design rights

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Building and quantity surveyors are to be allowed to be involved in the building design process after an amendment to a European directive.

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    University towns set to benefit from Egan

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    The expansion of university towns, such as Cambridge and Edinburgh is one of the ideas under consideration in a government review chaired by Sir John Egan.

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    Designers waste one-sixth of their time

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Architecture, engineering and construction firms waste nearly one-sixth of their time as a result of using outdated design software, a report claimed this week.

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    Most new buildings breach Part L rules

    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    An industry expert has claimed that up to two-thirds of new commercial buildings are not tested for airtightness as required by the government's building regulations on energy conservation.