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Strategic forum to launch client-friendly KPIs
The strategic forum is to launch its own key performance indicators to be used by clients in selecting firms.
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NewsHello campus
Hello campus: This Atkins Walters Webster-designed college campus in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, has just opened. The £12m Monkscroft Park was for client Gloucestershire College of Arts & Technology. The building provides 12,500 m2 of accommodation for 2000 sixth form and further education students. Contractor was Bovis Lend Lease, structural engineer was ...
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Industry to urge DTI to crack down on labour agencies
Frustrated construction leaders will demand an end to unscrupulous working practices at high-profile summit.
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NewsCurzon Holdings defies interiors downturn
Curzon Holdings, the parent company of fit-out specialist Jarvis Newman, expects to increase turnover to £100m, despite the downturn in the interiors market.
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Weston Homes' profit jumps 45% to £7.1m
Privately owned housebuilder Weston Homes' profit jumped 45% for the year to 31 July.
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The truth hurts
At last week's urban summit, John Prescott went in for a spot of housebuilder bashing. In fact, the real villain of the housing fiasco can be found closer to home
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Eyes wide shut
If we're going to seize our inauspicious economy by the horns, companies need to stop kidding themselves that things are better than they really are
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FeaturesAn urban renaissance has arrived at paddington and it's wearing bicycle clips
For centuries Paddington has been paralysed by high-speed transport, and many are the developers who've looked at it and despaired. Now adroit planning, distinguished architecture and the humble bicycle are delivering a model regeneration.
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Thatcher redux
One of the Conservatives' most controversial, and popular, policies in the 1980s was the right-to-buy. Now it's back – twice as controversial but just as popular
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Do the best you can
What does an adjudicator do when they do not have time to reach a view on the evidence? One judge suggested they resign, but there is a better option …
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Up the resolution
The Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution's new procedure presents a flexible way of solving disputes that leaves the parties in control for as long as possible
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FeaturesHouse of horrors
Converting an 18th-century mansion into a luxury hotel is almost bound to be a hairy encounter with the past. But when centuries' worth of slapdash extensions and interventions have taken their toll on the building's structure, then even a crack in the wall can spook you …
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Just the job
Louise Frostick, senior designer at Inspace Complete, tells Victoria Madine about the highs and lows of working for a fledgling interior design company
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Tender price forecast: Remaining immune
The UK stock market slumped in May and then launched itself on a rollercoaster ride. But this hasn’t affected building tender prices or new orders, which on the whole are continuing their inexorable rise. Davis Langdon & Everest explains why, and what will happen next
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On the move
The redevelopment of London's railway sites gets under way at last with Paddington leading the way
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Urban Summit
The biggest stories to emerge from the summit including Prescott's attack on housebuilders
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Bovis hits trouble with £150m Essex PFI hospital
Havering Hospitals Trust faces cost increases of £10m because of design changes and delay in buying land.
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ABB Building Systems to be sold next year
Swiss engineering group ABB is to push ahead with plans to sell UK subsidiary ABB Building Systems, as the US division prepares to file for bankruptcy protection.