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Features
Inspired images
Another glossy architectural tome with the usual gleaming pictures, but as the essays from Lord Rogers and Tony Blair make clear, this is more than just coffee table fodder.
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Wilson Connolly chairman to lead recovery plan
250 jobs to go as Asda boss Allan Leighton stakes reputation on improving housebuilder's performance.
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Taywood: still a place for construction arm
Taylor Woodrow was this week forced to defend its decision to keep its construction business after it bought rival housebuilder Bryant earlier this year.
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Amec: services switch pays off
Amec says its strong financial performance, with a 20% rise in pre-tax profit for the six months to 30 June, has vindicated its move towards the support services market.
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'Disciplined' Costain turned down work
Costain turned down £200m worth of work in the past year as the group took a more selective approach to construction contracts.
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White Young Green enters the Olympics
Listed consulting engineer White Young Green has opened an office in Athens to service the construction boom in the run-up to the 2004 Olympic Games.
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Skanska writes off £13m after UK projects go wrong
Swedish contractor announces "one-off" losses on joint ventures with Mowlem and Costain.
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WSP plans international shopping spree
Building services group WSP says it wants to make international acquisitions so that it can offer a global service to multinational clients.
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Oscar Faber to form sustainability group
Consultant engineer Oscar Faber has bought sustainable development specialist ECD Energy and Environment.
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Comment
Nanny strikes again
The self-employed keep the industry competitive, but the government seems dead set on hounding them out of existence. Why?
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Features
Rebuilding Britain
Tony Blair's plans to double capital spending by 2004 will create a huge construction boom as the government scrambles to transform public services in time for the next election. Over the next three weeks, in the run up to Building's "Blair's Billions" conference, we throw a spotlight on the government's ...
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The revolutionary
Deryk Eke is charged with ensuring the government gets the most for its money. Building talks to him about his radical plans
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Putting our houses in order
Recent government commitments to social housebuilding look impressive. But how much can really be delivered over the next three years?
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The delivery boy
Lord Falconer, the new minister of state for housing and planning, talks to Building about how he intends to turn the government's housing pledges into reality
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Fisch out of water
As beautiful as the chance meeting between a surfing fish and a horse's head in the atrium of a German bank, Frank Gehry's new conference centre has to be seen to be disbelieved. Stuart Black, thesaurus in hand, was the first reporter to pay a visit.
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Comment
Break with past, Melinda
To argue against the third party rights act, as Melinda Parisotti did, is to argue in favour of a disaster. Not surprising, then, that the reasoning doesn't bear examination
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Comment
Standard-bearer
The pressure is on for PFI schemes to improve design standards. Is the guidance and regulation of the design process in the health sector the way forward?
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The fireproof contractor
At last someone is looking into the insurance provisions of JCT80. At the moment, the issue of liability is nothing short of bewildering