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Foster takes home £6m as profit halves
Lord Foster was paid £6.1m by Foster and Partners in the 2001/2 financial year, despite the fact that the practice's pre-tax profit more than halved in the same period, according to the latest annual results posted at Companies House.
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NewsUS to keep plum Iraq contracts
British construction companies will not win any major contracts to rebuild Iraq because of strict US government procurement guidelines
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NewsChancellor puts his man in charge of PFI policy
Treasury unit is given enlarged brief and extra resources to push through public buildings before next election.
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Prefab housing factory to supply Thames Gateway
Live-In Quarters' off-site plant in east London is to provide 5000 steel-framed modular homes for Barking Reach.
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Research may help industry to win charge exemption
Government-backed research report says industry must improve logistics or keep paying full congestion charge.
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Amey shareholders clamour for sale of group
Leading shareholders of beleaguered support services group Amey are calling for the sale of the company after the announcement on Wednesday of a pre-tax loss of £129.5m in 2002.
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Homes comfort
Whenever housebuilders meet nowadays, they can be seen staring intently at one another and muttering, "this is going to be an interesting year". Never ones to talk down business, what they are really saying is: life is pretty damn difficult. The industry is facing more demands than ever before, with ...
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All in the Finish
In a month's time the Council of Mortgage Lenders is bringing in a new rule that means homeowners only get their mortgage when the home is complete. Josephine Smit reports on the impact it will have on housebuilders' deadlines
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Why don't we build more houses?
Despite record growth in house prices, the number of new homes we build continues to decline. Housing output per head of population in the UK is lower than in any other major western economy. This trend is unlikely to reverse in the next few years. It is the ...
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FeaturesVillage People
Can you design a community? Yes, but it takes a lot more than simply a construction process, as both Philip Davies of developer Linden and resident Marie Hart have learned at an urban village in Surrey.
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FeaturesNothing by halves
Mayor Ken Livingstone's draft London plan, which aims to make 50% of homes on new residential sites affordable, is coming under public scrutiny next week. Developers will be going all out to limit the damage.
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New-build completions
NHBC-registered new-build private and housing association completion figures for January 2003 show the bulk of activity is in the South-east. But overall private completions are already down on the same month last year.
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Ground control
Ten years ago, development was all about churning out yuppie flats; today the ground has shifted to affordable homes. Josephine Smit meets Andrew Wiseman, chief executive of Telford Homes and a master of both territories.
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Get it right - doors and windows
It seems problems with windows in new homes are all too common. Zurich Building Guarantees’ annual Customer First Survey of new homebuyers showed that 43.6% of respondents had problems with the windows in their new homes in 2002. Water penetration through the building envelope comes high on the list of ...
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Products - Doors and windows
How's this for an opening to a doors and windows special: a Victorian east London pub converted into affordable homes that combines traditional timber windows with contemporary aluminium
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FeaturesThe very model of a modern district general
The celebrated ACAD diagnostic and treatment centre in north-west London is to have an equally revolutionary and even more ambitious big brother. It will be a complete acute hospital that promises streamlined healthcare, uplifting architecture and close community links
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Just the job
Andy Fuller, Persimmon Homes' construction director, tells Sally Whitehill why he's spent 16 years at the same firm – and why he's planning to stick around
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Lead times
Most companies have been busy in the first quarter of the year, but market uncertainties are expected to drive down lead times in the future
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Civils spending forecast to fall in three years
Expenditure in the civil engineering sector is expected to fall within three years, according to a report by Market & Business Development.