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  • News

    Architects show confidence in rising workload

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Architects’ confidence in the private housing and commercial sectors is beginning to return, according to a RIBA survey

  • News

    Eleven win £500m regional framework

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Eleven contractors have won a place on a massive regional framework scheduled to provide up to £500m of work in the next four years

  • News

    The Grimdex: 5.9

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Building’s seven-strong Gloomwatch panel was formed to take the temperature of the ailing construction industry

  • News

    Up Mexico way: Rogers' 221m tower

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has been commissioned to design a 221m tower for bank BBVA Bancomer in Mexico City

  • Insulation
    News

    English Heritage attacks Part L proposals

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Heritage body set to oppose plans to bring historic buildings up to modern energy efficiency standards when refurbished

  • Would you like to contribute to the skyline of Toronto?
    Features

    International salary guide 2009: Where in the world is the best pay?

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    As the recession turns sought-after consultants into international jobseekers, where can you go for some relief? Roxane McMeeken met one victim of the cuts, and Hays Construction tallied average pay packets from across the globe

  • Comment

    Lost in Translation

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Designers can have 10 great ideas before breakfast, but if they can’t find ways of making the bureaucracies that run our world understand them, they’re doomed

  • News

    Fison rings changes as Osborne makes £334m

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    David Fison, chief executive of Osborne, has overhauled the company’s structure since taking over as chief executive in January, writes Roxane McMeeken

  • News

    Keltbray spreads risk as spending spree climbs to £10m

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Groundworks and demolition specialist Keltbray has bought piling company Cain White

  • Persimmon homes
    News

    Persimmon scents upturn

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Persimmon has said it will start work on 50 sites by the end of 2009 in a cautiously optimistic trading update this week

  • News

    Willmott Dixon posts 18% rise in profit but looks to diversify

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Willmott Dixon has boosted turnover by 43% from £413.5m to £592.4m in 2008

  • Comment

    Don’t get the wrong idea

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    I enjoyed the interview with Steven Morgan of BAA (26 June, page 26), but it was easy to misinterpret what he had to say about frameworks and collaborative working

  • Comment

    Good riddance

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    It was striking to see the large number of articles and letters in last week’s edition (26 June) fretting about, and even anticipating, the demise of partnering and frameworks and the return of dreaded competitive tendering

  • Comment

    Find the combination

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Looking behind the headlines (26 June, page 26), I wonder if BAA is really looking to “ditch” frameworks or to question how and where they are used and to what effect?

  • Steven Morgan’s trenchant views on the bracing effects of competition have provoked equally trenchant views from readers …
    Comment

    What would Aristotle do?

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    What a relief to read Steven Morgan’s views on procurement at BAA (26 June, page 26).

  • Comment

    Get it sorted

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    My small practice recently lost out because we didn’t “fit the selection criteria”. This was despite the fact that we had worked on about a third of the client’s properties and had performed to everyone’s satisfaction

  • Comment

    Fight, fight, fight! (productively)

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    The trouble with advocates of single-stage competitive tendering and the collaborative crowd, is that they are both coming from the extreme end of their respective spectrums

  • Features

    Amanda Levete's Dublin bridge

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Amanda Levete’s first project since she left Future Systems, the firm she ran with her late husband Jan Kaplicky, is a sculptural bridge in Dublin that lays the way for a new direction in her career

  • Comment

    Cat fight

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Open mike Prospective office tenants seem to want less waste, less energy consumption and lower costs. Impossible? Actually, it isn’t – if you use ‘smart cat A’, says William Poole-Wilson

  • Birmingham Bullring set a new design standard for the inner-city shopping centre
    Features

    Specialist cost update: Office and retail fit-out and refurbishment

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    In the second of its series of cost updates for specialist trades, the Sense Cost Consultancy team considers refurbishment and fit-out in the office and retail markets