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  • John Morgan: "Excellent progress"
    News

    Morgan Sindall predicts £25m profit

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The full-year pre-tax profit at Morgan Sindall could hit £25m, the contractor claimed after it posted improved interim results.

  • Comment

    Mark my words, Gordon

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    If the chancellor thinks that his backing the Quality Mark will rid the industry of cowboy builders, he’s obviously got a lot to learn about cowboy customers

  • Vanessa uncaged
    Comment

    Hansom

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    How the British game of Poohsticks could be an Olympic winner, Vanessa Feltz is let loose on site and Building makes an impression in snowy Siberia

  • The resident
    News

    Leave our dream alone

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    This is Roger Hume. Five years ago, he and hundreds like him bought a house in a brand new Cambridgeshire village. Then the developers decided to increase density in line with planning policy and the residents hit the roof. Have the government and middle England parted company?

  • News

    David Curry

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Government wants councils to ensure all social housing achieves the Decent Homes standard by 2010, if necessary by transferring their housing stock. But it may not be that simple

  • Features

    The adventures of Simon Cowell’s nicer brother

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    John Cowell may not have his younger sibling’s Pop Idol fame and fortune, but his construction consultancy has found a way to cash in on the family name. We talk to him about Hendrix, Will Young and Mr Nasty’s notoriously high waistbands.

  • Will Alsop
    Features

    Cover story

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Controversial, original, charming, brilliant – celebrity photographer Platon has just published a book of his work over the past decade.

  • Comment

    Protocol’s progress

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The Society of Construction Law’s rules for handling delay can now be incorporated into your contract – with dramatic consequences for the programme

  • Comment

    Compulsory purchases

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Two legal textbooks have just been published, and if you’re in the business of fighting or resolving disputes, you simply have to have them on your shelf

  • Comment

    Exit the engineer

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The ICE form has long required engineers to resolve ‘matters of dissatisfaction’. Well, that’s all over now, because the seventh edition has new rules

  • Comment

    The nuclear option

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The flow of interim payments has come to a stop and it looks ominous. What to do? Wait for an adjudication – or go for broke with a winding-up petition?

  • Comment

    Quality is key

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    I would like to take this opportunity to respond to your invitation for views on whether or not the Quality Mark can be resurrected (2 July, page 15).

  • Comment

    Stuck in first gear

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest your leader article “Assisted Suicide” and “Watts: BRE is on a precipice” (23 July, page 12) on the DTI’s proposal to end the practice of ringfencing money for construction research and development.

  • Comment

    Charity begins at home

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    No, I do not agree the industry should be funding migrant workers for skills training (30 July, page 15). Do British tradesmen get the same treatment if we work on the Continent? Maybe it’s about time Britain stopped being such a “bleeding heart” and actually concentrated on solving our own ...

  • Comment

    Ships that pass on the motorway

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    As a regular passer of the RAC control centres at Bristol and Walsall (30 July, page 34), perhaps someone could enlighten me about the obviously nautical inspiration in the designs. The centre at Bristol screams Noah’s Ark (when not attracting divine thunderbolts, causing the computer system to shut down!) and ...

  • Alsop's Fourth Grace
    Features

    Blobs vs blocks

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    As the latest slanging match over iconic buildings between two high-profile architects reaches stalemate, Building decided to step in as referee. And so, desperate to get out into the sunshine, we did a little vox-pop research to put the matter to rest …

  • Features

    Move over Paula …

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    … it’s time for some new Olympic heroes. As the games get off the blocks in Athens, Building decided six nations deserved gold medals for excellence in their specialist field of construction. William Wiles awarded points for stamina, speed, agility, strength, technique and synchronicity.

  • Features

    The reinvention of tradition

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Britain’s treasured stock of antique Georgian and Victorian housing was all built using single-skin walls. Now it could be about to make a dramatic return.

  • Plans to expand: Snook (right) and Ashley Martin, Rok finance director
    News

    Rok hires BA brand expert to boost customer service

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Airline’s head of branding joins contractor to improve relations with supply chain and customers

  • Trend setters: A Watkins Gray school in Lincoln
    News

    Llewelyn and Watkins Gray form PFI alliance

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Architects Llewelyn-Davies and Watkins Gray International have formed a strategic alliance to pitch for health and education PFI work.