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  • News

    OGC hires director to overhaul procurement

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    The Office of Government Commerce has appointed a construction director to manage its overhaul of public sector procurement.

  • Stock exchange: Two competing for £75m project
    News

    Two vie for stock exchange job

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    The shortlist to redevelop the former home of the London Stock Exchange is understood to have been whittled down to Bovis Lend Lease and Sir Robert McAlpine.

  • Election 05
    News

    Building readers back Conservatives in survey

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Conservative Party takes 3.5% more votes than Labour, despite support for government’s construction policies

  • News

    Sri Lankan conflict blocks tsunami reconstruction

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    British firms ‘frustrated’ by funding dispute between government and Tamil Tigers in north and east of country

  • Tory torch
    News

    Building readers back Conservatives in survey

    2005-04-29T09:54:00Z

    Conservative Party takes 3.5% more votes than Labour, despite support for government’s construction policies.

  • News

    Construction industry: Election Battleground no3

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Ahead of next weeks general election, key industry figures call for construction to be represented by a single voice at the top table plus what happened to all those initiatives

  • Charles Banks
    Features

    The quiet american

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    The winner of this year’s Building Award for Chief Executive of the Year is Charles Banks, boss of materials firm Wolseley – a man whose calm manner belies his amazing track record and aggressive hunt for acquisitions.

  • Megan Walters
    Features

    Pay days

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Megan Walters’ crusade over maternity pay was highly commended at this week’s Building Awards. Here’s why

  • Features

    Appointments

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers

  • Features

    Head for the hills

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    This month, Experian Business Strategies predicts that construction growth will continue its slowdown – and explains why it’s better to be working in Yorkshire or the North than London

  • Davidson: To retire next April
    News

    Persimmon’s founder and chairman to retire

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Duncan Davidson, the founder and chairman of the UK’s biggest housebuilder Persimmon, is to retire next year at the age of 65

  • News

    FMB reports weak growth in 2005 workloads

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Workload in the building industry is experiencing its slowest growth for six years, according to a Federation of Master Builders survey.

  • News

    Sharewatch

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    High hopes at Hanson

  • Features

    Kier snatches top spot in March league table

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Twenty-seven contracts worth £302m push contractor to pole position, ahead of Carillion and Laing O’Rourke

  • Adrian Chamberlain
    Comment

    Kick out the jams

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    The boss of Lend Lease’s European operations gives Britain’s next government some useful advice on how to keep its election promises

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    A QS quiz team counts its brain cells and euros, the industry’s fast-track papal election and Owen Luder perfects his shooting and bow-tie-tying techniques

  • Dittmar: New urbanist
    News

    Urban guru plans US-style regeneration pilot

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Prince Charles’ American urban design adviser wants to use an ODPM-backed regeneration initiative to demonstrate how a planning technique established in the US can improve the quality of life in Britain’s cities.

  • News

    James Pickard

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Why the £60,000 house competition is an opportunity not to be missed

  • Andrew Hemsley
    Comment

    Let’s go shopping

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    The ‘Tesco law’ reforms would enable construction consultancies to become one-stop-shops, offering their clients legal advice. But will they do it?

  • Comment

    A tense situation

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Can the party defending an adjudication give new answers after proceedings have begun? Well, it seems that depends on the language used in the question …