All articles by Phil Clark – Page 11
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FeaturesDown Under
It's the tug-of-love pulling the industry's heartstrings … Is there a long-term home for Bovis with Lend Lease, or could it be snatched by fast-talking, big-spending Multiplex? We review an Aussie soap with a difference.
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NewsClarke pledges to focus Atkins on key markets
Chief executive says he will concentrate on high-value work as consultant announces return to profit
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NewsCIC boss slams government in CABE chairmanship row
Graham Watts defends former CABE chairman Sir Stuart Lipton and calls for body to be 'run by people in industry'
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CommentMarketwatch: office special
It was billed as 'The Big Comeback' – London's office developers were going to wow us with a spending extravaganza. But as we report, in reality market recovery has been more of a slow burn
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FeaturesTravellin' man
Charlie Hughes of Smart Futures discusses air miles, broken backs, Saddam Hussein and sustainability with us.
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NewsMace to construction manage £100 City office
Shock in industry as out-of-favour procurement route is picked for biggest City office scheme for 18 months
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News'Fast track' Diana memorial fountain ready for opening
Seven years after her death, £3m memorial fountain to Princess of Wales is completed in Hyde Park
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NewsPaddington PFI hospital plan attacked in Commons
West London MP John Randall cites evidence in Building investigation as he calls for inquiry into health scheme
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NewsCost of Holyrood hits £450m
The final cost of the Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh is likely to be £450m, more than 11 times the first estimate of £40m
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Comment
Mirror image
He probably won't be frogmarched from his office sans jacket, but Kevin Hyde, Jarvis' chief executive, may be about to suffer a similar fate to that which befell the former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan last Friday: the prospect of being ousted by his company's investors (see news).
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NewsPlan B emerges for Paddington hospital PFI
A Fresh plan for a £800m PFI hospital at Paddington, central London, has emerged days before a review into the beleaguered project is to be published
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FeaturesNothing doing
The Paddington Health Campus was always going to be problematic, but nobody expected it to take so long to do so little, or for costs to rise from £360m to £827m. We tell the inside story of the PFI hospital from hell
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Four in scramble to build Morrisons' £50m HQ
Four contractors are lining up to build a £50m headquarters in Bradford for newly enlarged supermarket chain Morrisons
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CommentRubber chicken: Foster & Fox present …
Our intrepid correspondent makes the arduous ascent of the gherkin and meets the great and the good – including a certain architect and Swiss Re vice president
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NewsLetwin proposes Whitehall cuts
Shadow chancellor Oliver Letwin has hinted that the Conservative party will form a ministry for procurement if it gets into power
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NewsSchools for Future head to learn lesson on spending
Stanton-Ife pledges DfES will learn from its past and bring public and private sectors closer together
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FeaturesOliver Letwin
The donnish shadow chancellor may look most at home surrounded by dusty tomes, but he's all for rewriting the book when it comes to the civil service. He talks to us about modernisation, decentralisation and, er, oysters.
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New arrival set to help Jarvis move on
Troubled contractor Jarvis, which this week accepted liability for the Potters Bar rail crash in May 2002, is about to bring in a former chief executive of the Highways Agency to reinforce its management
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Four vie for £40m Berkeley job
Four construction managers are in the running for a £40m mixed-use scheme for Berkeley Homes in west London