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Features
At the top of the slope
This month, Experian Business Strategies reports that May was a bumper period for construction activity. However, labour shortages are proving irksome, and growth is set to wind down over the next quarter …
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Making plans for Nigel
Small, efficient firms are being squeezed out by a government that is hand-in-glove with big construction. So, here are some suggestions for our new minister
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Logic of the madhouse
The government is trying to improve housing supply by making housebuilders' job so onerous that they would rather build their homes in China than Chingford
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FeaturesKeith Hill
Only a month into the job and the housing minister has absorbed the government's line about having a 'vision' for urban regeneration. But when it comes to expounding the finer policy points, he seems less sure of himself.
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Being sat on by a hippo
Memo to Nigel Griffiths: More and more small, solvent firms are being squashed by large, insolvent ones. At present they have almost no protection. Time to step in?
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CommentNo sex please
In their enthusiasm to make their case, disputants are likely to ‘sex up’ evidence. But good adjudicators, and good prime ministers, ought to be immune to spin
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After the fall
In the absence of a conventional government in Iraq, what is the legal status of contracts signed with state bodies? And how about those signed with Saddam's regime?
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Don't be a Boynton
When a dream home extension is delayed and defective, the client may win our sympathy. But winning damages and avoiding costs requires hard evidence
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FeaturesT5 - satisfying hell hounds, wrestling with serpents
At least, that's how the Heathrow team describe their battle to make a 15-year-old design work for a rapidly evolving industry.
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FeaturesThe saga of T5's roof design
Because the roof was such a prominent feature, designing it so that it could be built in a cost-effective way was fundamental to the project's success.
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FeaturesThe IT strategy at T5
People will look back on the new Heathrow Terminal 5 as a landmark in smart design
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A question of justification
Are Britain's bosses overpaid? This question has been dominating the City pages over the past few months, particularly after the £22m severance deal struck by Jean-Pierre Garnier, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline.
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NewsPension crisis deepens as firms shut schemes to existing staff
Rok and Alfred McAlpine close final salary schemes and predict that other companies are about to follow suit.
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NewsNorman's new place
Foster and Partners has designed its first residential development for the Liverpool housing developer, Urban Splash. The scheme, for 292 apartments in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, is also Urban Splash's first scheme outside a city centre. Foster's design has a pair of linked seven-storey blocks that project out over the Bridgewater ...
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Mowlem wins fight for £4bn PFI barracks
The £4bn PFI project to build and maintain the Allenby and Connaught army barracks has been won by a joint venture between Mowlem and the American contractor Kellogg Brown & Root
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Laing O'Rourke moves to calm T5 bonuses row
Laing O'Rourke is to meet national union leaders next week to discuss industrial unrest on the Heathrow Terminal 5 project.
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Scots slam EMBT over fees
Members of the Scottish parliament have criticised Barcelona architect EMBT for failing to respond to its proposed cap on the fees of consultants for the building.
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NewsCarillion axes management layer after profit warning
Chief executive sets in motion major restructuring after announcing £10m loss on Nottingham tram project.