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  • News

    Report urges quicker release of brownfield

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    A new report calls on the government, developers and construction professionals to speed up the release of brownfield land for development.

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    Contracts

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Galliford wins housing workGalliford Hodgson, the social housing arm of Galliford Try, has secured two contracts worth £3.5m from Charlton Triangle Homes in south London. HBG to build £25m superstoreHBG has won a £25m contract to construct a superstore, health centre and further retail units at Haydon, north of Swindon.Haley ...

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    Underneath the arches

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Allan Murray Architects has prepared new proposals for the redevelopment of the Jeffrey Street arches in Edinburgh.

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    Heery to manage £120m Portsmouth scheme

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Balfour Beatty subsidiary Heery International is to be project manager for the redevelopment of Portsmouth city centre.

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    £530m hospitals contract awarded to Interserve

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    A TEAM led by contractor Interserve (formerly Tilbury Douglas) has won a £530m PFI healthcare contract in the West Midlands.

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    Diving in

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Work has started on the £37.8m National Irish Aquatic Centre.

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    University clients to foot bill for training site workers

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Five UK universities to insert training requirements in tenders as part of a CITB-backed pilot programme.

  • Features

    And so to Bedzed …

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Bill Dunster Architects and the Peabody Trust have teamed up to offer the UK's first speculative zero-energy housing estate. This is what the public will find when it's opened tomorrow

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    Housebuilders reject gloomy think tank report

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    City commentators shrug off Cambridge Econometrics' prediction that South-east market is heading for a fall.

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    Morgan Sindall price soars 25% on wave of buying

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Morgan Sindall's share price has rocketed 25% since it embarked on a spending spree two weeks ago.

  • News

    Countryside predicts sales will continue to grow

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder Countryside Properties has predicted that it will sell significantly more houses in the second half of its financial year than the 355 it has sold in the first half.

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    Sharewatch

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Share indices in the week to 18 May 2001

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    Willmott Dixon profit rises again

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Willmott Dixon's operating profit rose 25% last year.

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    18 building firms make fastest-growing list

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Construction-related companies make up nearly a fifth of the UK's 100 fastest-growing private firms, according to a new national survey.

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    Laing, McAlpine and Wilcon join FTSE250

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Laing, Alfred McAlpine and Wilson Connolly are poised to enter the ranks of the London Stock Exchange's largest 250 companies.

  • Features

    Can Labour tackle the skills shortage?

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    The New Deal for young unemployed people was one of New Labour's big ideas. Three years later, and with an argument still raging about its success, the party plans to revamp it to solve construction's recruitment crisis.

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    The contenders

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Meet Gus Robinson, Jane Briginshaw and Bernard Bateman, three construction professionals who have put their careers on hold to stand for election. Can they beat the heavyweight opposition?

  • Comment

    What son-of-CIB is for

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Michael Latham - The new strategic forum for construction is a boost for the Egan agenda that, on topics from partnering to safety and recruitment, will drive reform further

  • Features

    Kidnap!

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    A nightmare scenario: first an employee working overseas doesn't turn up one morning, then a ransom note does … suddenly the BBC is at the door, you're on the phone to the Foreign Office and the life of a colleague is in the balance. How can you stop this happening?

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    Art and Industry

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    French photographer Etienne Clément has spent the past three years documenting a Gateshead grain silo's transformation into an arts centre. Ten months before it opens, here are some of the results …