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FeaturesTaming the fat cats
To avoid Enron and WorldCom-style catastrophes, the Higgs report has set out rules intended to keep the portly pusses on company boards in line. But, in an industry used to mucking in and doubling up, will it ever succeed?
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FeaturesGreat lengths
Ireland has just splashed out on an extraordinary national swimming complex. Extraordinary partly because no public money will be spent on running it – which meant the designers had to create a unique building that could pay its own way.
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Are we having fun yet?
Rude audiences, ruder speakers, potential punch-ups and other ingredients of the annual dinner provide the fodder for the first of our columns on industry events
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FeaturesHow bad can it be?
Six days after Tony Pidgley Jr made a bold £1bn bid for his father's Berkeley Group, his personal and professional reputations took a battering. We report on how it went so wrong
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NewsHiggs review set to trigger wholesale board changes
Large number of construction firms will be in breach of upcoming corporate governance guidelines.
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David Bucknall heads up Citex management buyout
David Bucknall returns to lead management buyout of Citex days after it goes into administration.
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New chief gives Schal a shake-up
Carillion arm Schal has restructured following a strategy review led by managing director Terry Chapman
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NewsBack our call to fight Ken's industry tax
Building this week launches a "Chop the Charge" campaign to get the construction industry exempted from London mayor Ken Livingstone's congestion levy.
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NewsGalliford Try announces profit drop
Galliford Try chief executive David Calverley has admitted that the contractor has failed to deliver acceptable results to shareholders.
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NewsAmey gets last-minute loan to save £29m PFI sale
Circular to shareholders on final day of deadline gives green light to deal to sell eight PFI contracts to Laing.
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Jarvis under pressure to halve rail profits
Jarvis is facing pressure from Network Rail to slash its profit margins on rail maintenance by more than 50%, writes Mark Leftly.
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Unions unleash pay demands on Wembley
Multiplex is bracing itself for a wave pay demands on its £440m Wembley stadium project
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Contractors set to escape £100m extra insurance costs
Health and safety minister orders review of proposals to transfer workplace injury treatment costs to insurers.
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Elephant & Castle lumbers into action
Southwark council is about to make a second attempt to get Europe's largest regeneration scheme under way.
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Barcelona man for Plymouth
Architect David Mackay, one of the designers who transformed Barcelona, has clinched a £100,000 deal for the regeneration of Plymouth's city centre, waterfront and suburbs, writes Sally Mesner.
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Laing nicks lead in January with £99m police contract
Bovis is escorted off the contractors' monthly top spot but retains annual authority with £100m airport work.
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International costs: 2003
Gardiner & Theobald’s 11th annual survey of global construction costs takes a look at labour rates, building costs, material prices and inflation from Norway to New Zealand
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FeaturesRead this!
Business leaders now accept that their companies need to be environment-friendly – energy efficiency improves the bottom line and green publicity can make or break a company's reputation.
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FeaturesSmart management
Have you ever found yourself wishing that you could take more than the standard five weeks' holiday a year?