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Industry to urge DTI to crack down on labour agencies
Frustrated construction leaders will demand an end to unscrupulous working practices at high-profile summit.
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Galliford Try's construction chief quits
Deputy chief executive Marsh leaves as firm issues profit warning.
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NewsHewden may face £8m bill over Docklands crane deaths
High Court rules that hire firm rather than contractor was responsible for operation during fatal crane collapse.
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NewsTreasury considers tax breaks to spur regeneration
Gordon Brown's key adviser, Ed Balls, is set to attend talks on the US-style concept after the urban summit.
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Crackdown: Construction takes on the labour agencies
For years, dodgy labour agencies have been bringing illegal immigrants on site, avoiding tax and even terrorising the contractors they are supposed to be helping. Tom Broughton reports on an industry that has had enough – and is gearing up to fight back
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FeaturesPeter Gershon
Hired to overhaul government procurement, Peter Gershon is a huge fan of the PFI. But, as Marcus Fairs found, the chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce is uncomfortable singing its praises.
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NewsWe're going to struggle
Darren Richards, engineer and prophet, wants to turn prefab housing from vague talk into a working system. The problem is that resistance to it is deeply rooted in Britain's popular psychology and industrial culture. Josephine Smit finds out why.
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Comment
Mediation mapped
The legal context in which mediation takes place is becoming more complex and more coercive. Here's a guide to where we are now, and an idea of where we're going
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NewsWar of words at Shepherd after unfair dismissal claims
New group chairman issues letter to staff in response to press reports of ex-chairman Paul Shepherd's writ.
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Galliford's construction chief quits
Galliford Try deputy chief executive George Marsh has resigned after the group was forced to issue a profit warning.
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Comment
The banality of error
How can a party to a dispute be right and yet lose? Answer: the adjudicator makes the wrong decision. Obvious, isn't it? So why is everyone so surprised?
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NewsTube Lines anxious to sign as Metronet lags
The Tube Lines consortium is pushing to sign off its London Underground public–private partnership deal ahead of fellow group Metronet, which has yet to finalise funding.
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NewsBrown: 2000 areas to get planning aid
Chancellor Gordon Brown used the summit to unveil the creation of 2000 "enterprise areas" to encourage economic and physical regeneration in deprived neighbourhoods.
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Laing leaves contracting behind in £5m deal
Laing’s last remaining contracting business, Holloway White Allom, was this week sold to a management buyout team.
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Alsop to redesign central Birmingham station
Alsop Architects has been appointed to lead a £200m refurbishment of Birmingham's New Street station.
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NewsHousebuilders to confront Prescott over summit jibes
Angry housebuilders reject Prescott's claim at last week's urban summit that they are holding back regeneration.
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China invites bids for first seven Olympic schemes
Contractors have just two months to pre-qualify for £6bn of projects for the 2008 Beijing games.
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Firing the smoking barrel gang
It's easy to demonise labour agencies. The stereotype is straight out of a Guy Ritchie film: grubby back-street office, battered white van and dodgy-looking paperwork. Such outfits have no place in the world of integrated supply chains. But still, every contractor knows that if they need five brickies in the ...