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Bovis Homes hit by bad weather
Bovis homes has warned shareholders that its next set of interim results may be hit by the recent bad weather.
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Bovis Lend Lease steals a £100m march in February
Four contracts worth a total of £196.4m help Bovis Lend Lease to add to its lead in annual contractors' table.
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Reining in the Trojan horses
Developers stand accused of employing superstar architects to hoodwink planners – and then dumping them for lesser designers. How can we stop the dumbing-down of architecture?
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Paul Hyett
He's no superstar, but the RIBA's practical, birdwatching new president intends to make his name through education and the recruitment of ethnic minorities.
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Ministerial meddling
Gerald Kaufman - Wembley, Picketts Lock and the new British Library all have one thing in common: government intervention. In no instance did it help at all
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Taming the Celtic tiger
Ireland's construction boom is bringing pressures that threaten to undermine it: skills shortages, lack of regulation and overstretched planning departments. What's more, where are all these buildings supposed to go?
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Dublin in height
It's twice as tall as its neighbours and clad in tropical hardwood, so it's no surprise that some were nervous about de Blacam and Meagher's Temple Bar tower.
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G'day I'm here to save your company
Antipodean graduates venturing to the UK used to be stuck with pulling pints. Now, relaxed visa rules designed to alleviate skills shortages mean they are being welcomed with open arms by the construction professions.
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Support the home team
Philip Cleaver - explains how Mansell spots native talent and then grooms it for senior management
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Five alternatives to MIPIM
Didn't make it to this week's MIPIM property fair in Cannes? Never mind, here are five more glamorous networking opportunitiesBarcelona Europe's number-two property fair after MIPIM, Meeting Point Barcelona, claims to get 15,000 visitors – almost as many as its Cannes rival. Last year's highlight was a cocktail reception at ...
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Not entirely acceptable
Rachel Barnes - Consultants asked to agree to "entire agreement clauses" in their terms of appointment should be careful: they could find that they're losing fundamental remedies
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Holding on
Tony Bingham - An adjudicator has told you to pay money to a firm veering towards insolvency, against which you have a counterclaim outstanding. Must you pay?
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Not the best of all possible worlds
Simon Lewis - Because the NHS standard form for PFI contracts assumes a greenfield site, it is geared to conditions that may not reflect those faced in reality
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A declaration of war
Andrew Hemsley - There might be a faint whiff of partnering about Defence Estates' prime contract, but don't be deceived – it's almost deliberately adversarial
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Here's one we made earlier
Cardboard isn't just for Blue Peter. Buro Happold thinks it's the green building material of the future, and is testing its theory on an Essex school. Thomas Lane finds out how to build with giant toilet rolls – and asks what happens if it rains
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Watch out for splinters
Natural unfinished timber is the cladding material of choice for fashionable architects these days, but not everyone knows how to use it. Choose the wrong type of wood or an inappropriate fixing method and the rot could set in …
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Let's stop talking
Glen Sabin - says the industry needs to stop discussing partnering and start including manufacturers
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Time for work
Michael Ryley explains why the European court is moving to protect paid holidays for workers on short-term contracts
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Appointments
ContractorsBrian Cullum has joined Higgins Construction as business manager.Try Interiors, the interior fit-out division of Try Construction, has appointed Barry Couzens sales and marketing manager.Andrew Crispin and Andrew Postlethwaite have been promoted to directors at fit-out contractor Walter Lilly, part of YJL.HousebuildersLovell has appointed Marcus Keys, formerly of the Housing ...
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Railtrack plans £700m new town for north London
Allies and Morrison is masterplanning development on the site of railway sidings in Cricklewood.