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FeaturesBeyond the automobile
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
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
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
My take on selling Mansell is that we faced the same problems that most unlisted firms eventually encounter.
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Here starteth the lesson
An initiative to promote training on social housing projects should show the industry how to shed its insecurities and secure its future
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NewsMix and match
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
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?
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FeaturesThe x factor
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
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Just a few complicated points
It's not easy, but firms negotiating PFI deals must identify the risks they're running. Here's how to go about the job
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Who've you been seeing?
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
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FeaturesGoing down a storm
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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NewsVery enlightening
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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NHS report warns of hospital funding gap
A £5bn development programme of more than 150 healthcare projects in greater London could be undermined by funding and planning problems.