All articles by Denise Chevin – Page 7
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CommentBe careful what you wish for
Two very different companies are engaged in two very different battles at the moment. Keith Miller, the chief executive of Miller Group, is struggling to keep his company private. Erinaceous is fighting for bare survival. Yet could the shareholders of each learn from the plight of the other?
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CommentA bad case of the wobbles
We’ve known for some time now that 2008 is unlikely to be as golden a year as 2007.
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CommentConstruction takes centre stage
This week offered a fantastic shop window for construction. First there was the glamour surrounding the Queen’s opening of St Pancras and the high-speed rail link.
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How to be good
In a market where demand outstrips supply, everyone wants to work for a good employer and every firm wants to be considered to be one.
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CommentWhy Crossrail is looking good
After 18 years, Crossrail is finally up on the departures board.
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CommentGrowth, but at what price?
Wow! Pop those champagne corks. What a year it’s been for the sector’s top 250 consultants.
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CommentPay attention!
Alistair Campbell in his prime would have struggled to put a positive spin on the progress of the government’s flagship school building programme.
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CommentHow much trouble are we in?
So while the RICS tells us there’s a 10% chance of an eighties-style housing crash and construction of the Shard is put on hold...
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CommentRip it up and start again
What do you do if you’ve fallen out of favour with the City and your share price is heading south?
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CommentNothing safe about our houses
So Peter Hain’s first act as secretary of state for work and pensions was to call an inquest into why so many people are dying on building sites – 17 more this year than last.
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CommentPolicies for a rainy day
In hindsight, Yvette Cooper probably wishes she’d waited for a break in the weather before launching her green paper.
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CommentWho goes there?
One of the odd things about private equity firms is just how unprivate they have become of late.
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CommentGordon Brown vs the housing crisis
There wasn’t too much we hadn’t heard before in Gordon Brown’s preview of the next Queen’s speech, and it was pretty short on detail, but the message came over loud and clear: if his predecessor’s top priorities were education, education, education, his are housing, housing and housing.
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CommentSo where are we now?
So Brown’s government is to be “aggressively pro-business”, according to John Hutton, the business secretary.
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CommentHow hard can it be?
Heart transplants are routine, information can cross the world in milliseconds and modern aviation lets us fly anywhere for a pittance. So why can’t we build half as many houses as we did in the sixties?
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CommentThe art of realpolitik
Few projects have inflamed passions more than the 2012 Olympics. The process of marrying the aspirational and the practical has put some sectors of the industry and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) at each other’s throats.
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CommentToo much of a good thing
Back in September 1988, Building ran a series entitled “Crisis? What crisis?” arguing that the market was overheating.
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CommentIves rolls the dice
Francis Ives, the charismatic chairman of Cyril Sweett, has the reputation of being an enterprising fellow.
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CommentReform is a wonderful thing …
After a decade of busily making the planning system worse, the government has finally given the industry some hope that it might actually improve it.