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Prescott unveils £22bn regeneration plan
Deputy prime minister John Prescott this week launched his £22bn plan for regeneration funding for the next three years.
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NewsDunster bypasses developers with green housing scheme
Architect assembles own construction team to put plan for environment-friendly homes into action.
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Firms to team up for Procure 21
Major contractors are preparing to form joint ventures to pitch for the £1.5bn-a-year national roll-out of the Procure 21 hospital building programme.
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AWG and Morrison in war of words over fraud claim
Sir Fraser Morrison hits back after AWG issues £130m writ claiming false accounting in run-up to Morrison sale.
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Gleeson takes Llewellyn's place on £31m leisure PFI
Gleeson joins project team after Llewellyn's new owner Rok decides the project does not fit its business model.
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Taywood tries to block corruption charge
Taylor Woodrow is seeking a High Court injunction to stop a subcontractor from making allegations that it is guilty of corruption.
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Features
Gleeson names its next managing director
Andrew Muncey is promoted to take over from retiring boss David Eyre in May.
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Pidgley Jr takes on dad's former manager
Cadenza boss hires ex-Thirlstone Homes managing director Sean Burroughs as new right-hand man.
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Lipton Jr forms affordable housing firm
Elliot Lipton, son of Stanhope founder Sir Stuart Lipton, has formed a company to provide affordable housing in London.Lipton claimed that the company, First Base, will be the first housebuilder to focus solely on low-cost housing. The average flat in Greater London sells for £210,000, according to the Land Registry. ...
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FeaturesCost model update, February 2003
Building cost models are celebrating their 10th birthday. To mark this happy event, we outlines the factors that will be affecting costs in 2003 for 17 of the most common building types
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Pidgley Jr takes on dad's former manager
Tony Pidgley Jr has made one of his father's former executives commercial director of his housebuilder, Cadenza.
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Arup on a roll with profit and staff increases
Pre-tax Profit at consultant Arup has increased 6% in the 12 months to 31 March 2002 compared with the same period the previous year.
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Comment
Right plan, wrong man
There's nothing the matter with Ken Livingstone's vision of a city the size of Leeds in Thames Gateway, but he could never build a political coalition to bring it off
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Dealing in design
You're an architect, you're pitching for a job and the client asks: how much? Not to panic – former architect Robert White can help you with the bottom line.
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Clive Porter
The Audit Commission report is likely to fuel the flames of the PFI debate. Before things get too heated, let's put the report in context
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Comment
Intercontinental comparisons
Adjudication has many supporters but few of them would claim it's perfect. So perhaps we could learn a few lessons from how it's done in other countries?
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Balance of payments
Whack a huge interest rate on late payments and it may be considered an unenforceable penalty. Go too low and you fall foul of the Late Payments Act
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Some rights and wrongs
I am sorry if John Smith thought that my letter of 17 January was "a collection of anodyne platitudes" (24 January, page 34).
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OK lads, just, er, do your stuff
In the light of the recent correspondence on training, particularly John Smith's last letter (24 January, page 34), may I draw your attention to a parallel problem facing site managers?