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  • Features

    Words from the front

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Mitch Parsons, a construction manager from Laing O'Rourke north, describes life at the sharp end of T5B

  • Features

    On site

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    It's finally up. After years of design work, months of testing and weeks of careful assembly, the first section of the main terminal's giant waveform roof is in place.

  • Features

    Prefab

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Here's where talk of templates becomes literal. We tell it like it is

  • Features

    Procurement

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    We explain how the celebrated T5 agreement works

  • Comment

    Peter rogers

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    While the construction industry is building T5, T5 is rebuilding the construction industry. Let me explain …

  • Features

    What there is still to do

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    – and will the terminal's interior rise to the occasion?

  • Features

    The captain, speaking

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    We listen carefully to Tony Douglas, T5's managing director

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    Workers' welfare

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    We report on how baa is making sure all its construction staff live to see the end of the job

  • News

    Taylor Woodrow boss hints at boardroom shake-up

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Chief executive Iain Napier's ambitious plans for housebuilder include keeping directors on their toes

  • Features

    A grave responsibility

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Graham Farrant's task is to create a profitable group that will advise individual clients and lobby for their collective interests. This is about as popular a job as undertaking – which is apt, given what happened to the last body.

  • Comment

    Up the workers

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    This is another everyday story of self-employment and rights and conditions at work. Redrow thought it had a contract and that was it. Wrong, wrong wrong!

  • News

    Unions furious as Multiplex takes over Wembley safety

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Stadium contractor accused of snub after it seizes control of inductions a week after memorial march

  • Features

    Not a matter of life and death …

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    As Bill Shankly said, football is much more important than that – at least it is to Redrow founder Steve Morgan. We tell the story of his struggle to win a place on the board of his beloved Liverpool FC, and gets expert analysis from the man himself

  • Features

    Rise of the machines

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    It is the year 2004, and a 400-year-old firm in Sussex, England, has become mankind's last hope of resistance to the machine-made roof tile – but for how much longer?

  • News

    Countryside hits back at critics

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    The chief executive of housebuilder Countryside has hit back at criticism of the management of the group after a poor set of interims

  • Comment

    A piece of the action

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    In America, lawyers can take a percentage of litigation proceeds. Here we regard that practice as reprehensible. But are English fee arrangements really so different?

  • News

    Balfour closes dream deal as Fitzpatrick sold to Dutch

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Balfour Beatty adds £227m to war chest with US sale as Dutch firm snaps up historic UK contractor

  • News

    Bovis Lend Lease opens in Dubai

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Bovis Lend Lease has opened an office in the city-state of Dubai in the Middle East to capitalise on the building boom.

  • News

    Anger over £7.6m Ballast pickings

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Administrator Deloitte & Touche has raised only £7.6m from the remains of Ballast, the contractor that failed with debts of almost £160m last October

  • News

    Griffiths urges industry leaders to improve safety

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Construction minister 'gravely concerned' over audit office report warning of failure to meet accident targets