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  • News

    Terminal 5 workers in four day walkout

    2005-12-09T14:15:00Z

    Laing O'Rouke employees strike over £1 bonus increase

  • News

    Developers sign 15000 home deal in Liverpool

    2005-12-09T12:05:00Z

    Four housebuilders to take on controversial regeneration work

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    European ministers sign sustainable communities agreement

    2005-12-09T10:40:00Z

    Almost half of Europeans live in communist era housing, commissioner reveals

  • News

    Building wins campaign to Reform the Regs

    2005-12-09T07:00:00Z

    ODPM agrees to develop process for updating regulations in a ‘simpler, more transparent manner’.

  • News

    Construction orders up 7% over the year

    2005-12-09T16:09:00Z

    But autumn orders fall behind summer levels

  • News

    Berkeley hit by £13m profit fall

    2005-12-09T11:37:00Z

    Developer says it will still meet targets

  • News

    Gleeds gives Redgrave new Olympic challenge

    2005-12-09T07:00:00Z

    QS signs up Olympic legend Sir Steve Redgrave as company ambassador for the 2012 Olympic programme.

  • Andrew Hemsley
    Comment

    Easy money

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Loopholes in the NEC’s target contract mean contractors can use their old tricks to make a profit rather than taking a share of any project savings …

  • Comment

    A painful case

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Sometimes contractors just get fed up with a job, and it grinds to a halt. When something like that happened to Birse, it got sacked. Then it got the bill …

  • Simon Massey
    Comment

    Don’t be evasive

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Take advantage of the fact that the Construction Industry Scheme has been postponed 12 months because, make no mistake, HM Revenue means business

  • Comment

    Corporate killing north of the border

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    The expert group set up by the Scottish executive to look at how to solve the conundrum of the ‘controlling mind’ has come up with a distinctive approach

  • Sir Michael Latham: Tackling the management challenge
    Features

    The second degree

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Building reports on the launch of a dedicated construction MBA

  • Simon Pole
    Features

    Appointments

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Who's recruited who this week...

  • Stephen Stone
    Features

    In the shadow of the heron

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Stephen Stone had just taken up the top job at Crest Nicholson when rumours began to circulate that Gerald Ronson’s Heron International was hatching a second takeover bid.

  • Martin Self & Chris Wise
    Features

    After the wobble

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Ahhh, Christmas … Time for old chums to get together, share memories, slap backs, redistribute blame and generally relive their glory days. For this lot, those days were spent designing, building, redesigning and amending the Millennium Bridge. So here’s your chance to eavesdrop on Arup, Foster and Partners, Sir Robert ...

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Bah humbug: raining on David Cameron’s parade, bloodthirsty board games on the Christmas do circuit, plus Cyril Sweett and the Ebenezers

  • The Welsh assembly building has been designed as an undulating timber-lined canopy stretching out to Cardiff Bay
    Features

    Open government

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    It feels like a million miles from the labyrinthine Holyrood. Lord Rogers’ Welsh assembly is all about transparency: in fact, it’s mostly a canopy open to Cardiff Bay

  • Illustration by Daniel Mackie
    Features

    Breaking amec

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    In the late 1980s, Amec pioneered the concept of the one-stop shop for construction services. Now, with its French services business up for grabs and the rest of the company set to be split in two and possibly sold, the sharks have started circling …

  • Bob Stagg
    Comment

    Brain donors wanted

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    At what point does a speculative joint venture become the exploitation of the naive or the desperate? Here’s an engineer’s take on this increasingly pressing question

  • Matt Bell
    Comment

    Biteback

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Last week, Colin Harding launched an outspoken attack on the pernicious effect of architectural elitism on the industry. Here’s the response from the ‘design snobs’ at CABE