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Laing back in black after switch to PFI
Laing is back in the black after transforming itself from a traditional contractor to a PFI investment specialist.
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Sorry, I'm a bit tied up
If the growth forecast in Gordon Brown's Budget is to prove more than a confidence trick, the chancellor can start by slashing the red tape strangling construction
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FeaturesHappy to be here
As the UK prepares to welcome to Eastern European workers in May, we meet Yolanda Dwornik, a Polish immigrant from an earlier generation who made it to this country against very long odds indeed.
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Labour takes the gloves off
Has the penny finally dropped at Whitehall? It's a truism of British politics that every party runs for election on the promise of freeing business from the dead hand of state regulation.
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CommentGuilty bystanders
Under the Proceeds of Crime Act introduced last year, if you suspect dodgy practices on site but keep shtoom, the authorities will see you as the criminal
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Just what we wanted
Graham Watts, chief executive of the Construction Industry Council, explains why he lobbied for CIPER and why it has a vital role to play
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Blunkett set to strip officials of crown immunity
The Government is considering bringing forward legislation to remove a 1000-year-old law protecting crown servants from prosecution for actions carried out in the course of their jobs.
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NewsBridge on the River Cam
Whitbybird Bridges Team, a subsidiary of consulting engineer Whitbybird, has won a competition to design a pedestrian bridge in Cambridge. When completed in early 2006 it will be the first bridge to be built over the Cam for 40 years. The team, which includes sculptor Gerry Judah, beat off ...
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Manchester's Millennium Quarter wins Civic Trust gong
The Millennium Quarter in Manchester was among the winners of the nine 2004 Civic Trust special awards presented in Bristol last Wednesday.
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NewsNAO to probe state procurement
The National Audit Office, parliament's public spending watchdog, is to assess the extent to which the government has adopted Egan procurement methods such as partnering
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Liverpool FC spurns Morgan's millions
Steve Morgan, the former chairman of housebuilder Redrow, has had a bid to inject £50m into Liverpool football club rejected.
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NewsIsland hopping
Guernsey this week opens the £16.5m airport terminal designed by architect Kensington Taylor of Exeter and Babtie Engineering. The symmetrical building has a central concourse, aerofoil-shaped roofs and a trio of criss-crossing Y-shaped columns at the front. It was built by German contractor Hochtief with Davis Langdon & Everest ...
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Housebuilders slam ODPM over Barker review
Housebuilders have criticised the government this week for failing to support the Barker review on the undersupply of housing.
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Norman Foster, über alles
Foster and Partners' design for a glass roof has just completed at the Free University in Berlin.And the university has honoured Lord Foster with its Transatlantic Bridge Award for architectural achievement. Foster was described by German chancellor Gerhard Schröder as "a man whose life's work has had a truly international ...
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NewsThe beautiful South
This design by Cartwright Pickard Architects for developer Urban Catalyst is one of two schemes in the running for the 2.3 ha Preston Barracks site in east Brighton. The other is designed by Broadway Malyan. Both designs comprise 50,000 m2 of offices, shops and housing for a consortium of Hyde ...
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Building Awards shortlists
The shortlists for the remaining four Building Awards categories have been announced.
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NewsAnyone for port?
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has revealed its designs for the Oosterdoks Island development in Amsterdam. The area connects the inner city with the new live–work areas on the harbour piers along the banks of the river.