All Leader articles – Page 40
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CommentOne project away from disaster
It’s a cruel study in contrasting fortunes. In the same week that BP announced a £9.3bn profit, Mowlem issued another profit warning
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CommentTime for a service
Adjudication has become such an established part of the construction scene over the past seven years that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary thing it is.
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The way forward
Not all companies will be establishing good reputations and winning repeat work. Will you be among them? We throw down the gauntlet
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CommentMuch done, more to do
Credit where it’s due. When John Prescott and his colleagues gather in Manchester next week to take the pulse of the regeneration effort, they can feel a little pleased with themselves (see pages 40-52).
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The Brick Awards continue to thrive
Last year we not only had record entries and attendance at the Grosvenor House but also, more importantly, a perceptible increase in the quality of the buildings.
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CommentRule Britannia
How’s this for a list of new year’s resolutions? I will not design buildings with sexy floor-to-ceiling glass cladding.
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CommentPeace and goodwill
With Christmas eight days away, what better time could there be for the unions and CITB-ConstructionSkills to call a truce in their war for possession of the CSCS card scheme?
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CommentThe scrabble for cash
Four years ago, when construction was comfortably ensconced at the old Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the government ran a scheme called Partners in Innovation.
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CommentGetting up to speed
When we started putting together our preview of 2005, we didn’t pre-judge the issues.
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CommentMedical complaints
“A special relationship in which one partner takes all the time and the other gives all the time is not a partnership but an exploitation. That is what exists now. It is time it stopped.” That was Gerald Kaufman talking this week about the US-UK alliance. But there are a ...
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CommentThe path ahead
Having been involved in the construction industry in various capacities since 1965, I find it hard to recall a time when there have been greater opportunities for the sector.
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CommentA great leap forward
With its grand entrance, impressive atrium, relaxed restaurants and break-out spaces, Bexley Academy in south-east London is more blue-chip corporate headquarters than secondary school.
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The X factor
Every year we have the delightful task of sifting through hundreds of marvellous submissions all vying for one of the categories in the BDA Brick Awards.
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CommentLet’s talk about sex
In these days of chronic skills shortages, any initiative to double construction’s pool of potential recruits is welcome.
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CommentDon’t panic
The housing market. It’s a national obsession. Doubly so if you work in the construction industry and your memory stretches back to the early 1990s, the big crash and the grisly business of cutting people out of the wreckage of their homes and jobs.
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Rouse … to Simmons
Succession is a tricky proposition, especially when your predecessor has made the job his own. Witness the plight of Jonny Wilkinson, the wunderkind of English rugby, who has been handed the captaincy of his national side last week after an eight-month injury. He has the small challenge of getting the ...
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CommentGood times don’t come cheap
“We’ve had six fantastic years of steady growth. Now it feels much more fragile.”
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Laboured, not loved
“The British people have lost confidence in Tony Blair but still prefer him as prime minister to Michael Howard,“ a poll in The Times revealed this week.