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FeaturesCounter attack: Interview with Sainsbury's head of property
Firms react differently to recession. Some struggle through, some hibernate – and some (for example, Sainsbury’s) launch £1.6bn offensives to grab market share. Emily Wright and Anna Reynolds met the man who’s planning the big push
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FeaturesInternational markets: Welcome to Iraq
Emily Wright reports on nation-building in the world's most dangerous country
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HCA to lure institutional investors to social housing
Housing agency to set up system that will allow private backers to build and manage schemes
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Consultation on sustainability code delayed until end of year
The consultation on the Code for Sustainable Homes 2010 has been delayed from October until the end of the year, leading some housebuilders to call for it to be scrapped
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NewsGreen Gorton
This development of 530 units in West Gorton, east Manchester, designed by Hamiltons Architects for housebuilder Braidwater, is set to restart in the autumn following a pick up in demand
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NewsFirst movement
Willmott Dixon has been appointed main contractor on a £22.5m scheme for the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
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Features'India is on the move'
And the good news is that UK companies are uniquely placed to capitalise on the South Asian powerhouse’s £344bn infrastructure boom – as an increasing number of firms are discovering
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FeaturesGet your skates on: Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic ice rink
The 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has triggered a flurry of building activity – including this Trout Lake ice rink. Stephen Kennett hurried along for a preview
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CommentTake the fifth: Liability for design mistakes
If you’re an architect, and you suddenly realise that you’ve made a mistake, do you have a duty to tell your client about it? Well, that all depends
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Spending cuts: What, where and how much?
Now that politicians of all parties have admitted spending has to be cut, the question is how much and where. Here Sarah Richardson makes the case for keeping capital programmes going. Overleaf, we mark your card for the upcoming party conferences
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NewsMarina's needle
Aedas’ 516m-high Pentominium in Dubai Marina is set to be the tallest residential building in the world
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NewsThere's still room for flats
The trend for smaller and smaller urban flats wasn’t the answer to the UK’s housing needs, but then, neither is a return to just building traditional family homes
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Data: New build sales and completions in August
This month’s stats show that private registrations are significantly higher than this time last year
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update
In the final part of our series, Sense Cost Consultancy explores the difficulties that M&E contractors and suppliers are facing, the effect that’s having on prices, and what the future may have in store
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NewsCitywatch: Case closed?
The biggest City casualty in the Office of Fair Trading fine fallout was Kier, whose shares slipped 2.5%, a fall some in the Square Mile attributed partly to Kier’s refusal to rule out an appeal – it seems analysts would rather now draw a line under the whole thing
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How the OFT investigation case developed
1 April 2004Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust discovers irregularities on tenders. It alerts the OFT and an inquiry into the industry begins.27 July 2005The OFT reveals it has searched the premises of 22 Midlands firms to find evidence of collusive tendering.22 March 2007The OFT claims it has uncovered £3bn of ...
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NewsNow firms will bid high all by themselves
The Office of Fair Trading has to apply the law, has to hurt this industry
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Sainsbury’s extends £1.6bn spree
Sainsbury’s is to extend its £1.6bn store expansion plan for at least another two years, according to its head of property
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Latest construction appointments - 25 September 2009
Kier has appointed John Jackson managing director of its Street Services business