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Appointments
HousebuildersMorris Homes has promoted Clare Crowther to group marketing director and Chris Minshall to sales director for the north of England. In the firm's West Midlands division, Daren Asson has joined as regional buyer and Stuart Rawcliffe has been appointed construction director.Jane Currie (left) has been promoted to sales manager ...
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HBG hangs on to top with contracts worth £33m
Kier is hard on the heels of the Dutch-owned contractor, but the December lull is apparent across the board.
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FeaturesVa va vroom!
Faced with landscape in which the only distinguishing feature are the mountains of red tape, Dutch architects have fought back with a joyous, renegade modernism.
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Welcome to the eurozone
With the euro now in 300 million pockets, and even creeping into Britain's high streets, it'll be hard to ignore Europe in 2002. For our industry, the €64,000 question is whether the currency will eventually turn the UK into the north-west region of the biggest construction market on earth.
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Cream of the Continent
The biggest construction companies in Europe have shifted positions slightly since last year’s league table, but the names remain the same. So why do Vinci, Bouygues and Hochtief always appear at the top of the pile – and streets ahead of UK firms?
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ContractorsTaylor Woodrow has appointed Jonathan Murrin investor relations manager.ConsultantsArchitect Stride Treglown Group has appointed Gareth Davies, previously with Holder Mathias Alcock, regional director for Wales. Dominic Eaton, Martin Pease and Richard Philipson have been appointed divisional directors in the firm's Bristol office and Katherine Foster, Tony Davies and Darren Wilkins ...
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Working abroad
Mandy Clarke, personnel director at engineer Buro Happold, tells Victoria Madine how the company selects and prepares employees for secondments abroad
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New model army
In a frantic bid for seasonal frivolity, we accosted an assortment of industry types, plied them with wine, and locked them in a room with a vast pile of household junk and a brief to recreate 2001's iconic buildings in true Blue Peter style. But would the architects, engineers or ...
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2001: A sobering year
It began with a champagne-propelled property fair on the Côte d'Azur, and ended with firms cancelling their Christmas parties to save money. In between, 2001 was dominated by the attacks on America and Afghanistan but it also included Labour's election landslide, the foot-and-mouth epidemic, the Wembley fiasco, a saucy recruitment ...