All Analysis articles – Page 23

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    Who are these masked men?

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Anyone who follows corporate action in housebuilding will have noticed some mysterious strangers riding into town. Sarah Richardson finds out who they are – and where they might strike next

  • Early drawings of the scheme by Eden Project designer Grimshaw
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    Water fight

    2007-07-13T00:00:00Z

    The Nirah freshwater aquarium will provide vital scientific research and – at four times the size of the Eden Project – is set to be a huge tourism boost for Bedford. So why has it had to endure an almighty struggle to get planning consent?

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    Metronet puts its future on the line

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    The consortium with the job of upgrading most of London Underground is struggling to cope with a £2bn cost overrun, potentially endless legal difficulties and increasingly nervous shareholders. Angela Monaghan looks at how it went so wrong, and what the stakeholders are doing to put it right

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    Government backs crane campaign

    2007-06-29T00:00:00Z

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s campaign to make tower cranes safe has won the support of a key Whitehall figure: Lord McKenzie, the minister for health and safety, as Dan Stewart found out. Buoyed up by this ministerial backing, we’re taking our demands to the Strategic Forum …

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    Safer Skyline is now backed by 20 of Britain’s top 30 contractors and housebuilders

    2007-06-22T00:00:00Z

    This is in addition to the 65MPs who support us …

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    Experimenting with friends

    2007-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Although launched nearly three years ago, Facebook has in recent weeks overtaken Friends Reunited and MySpace as the UK’s biggest social website. Mark Leftly spent a day investigating this latest alternative to work vital tool for networking …

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    The shadow of suspicion

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    The Office of Fair Trading has reached the critical point of its probe into bid rigging in construction. Dan Stewart and Sarah Richardson look at what it has found, the effect on the industry – and how contractors are fighting back

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    Gearing up

    2007-06-01T00:00:00Z

    As the government prepares the ground for its long awaited nuclear new-build programme, engineers, programme managers and consultants are picking their teams to compete for the UK’s fastest growing market. Sarah Richardson looks at the main players

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    Climbdown

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    The government’s 10-year plan to introduce Home Information Packs has collapsed less than 10 days away from implementation. Emily Wright reports on what went wrong, and what will happen next

  • Queen Elizabeth
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    Who owns this place?

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Some PFI consortiums have won leases on their hospital that run for almost a century after they finish their contract. Mark Leftly reveals the Department of Health’s risky gamble

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    Not everyone’s cheering

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    At 3pm on 19 May, all the public outrage that accompanied the delay to Wembley stadium will dissolve in the heat of an FA Cup final. But many of the firms that built it will find it harder to forget, particularly those in administration.

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    Tesco’s troubles

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Britain’s most successful business (probably) is one of the construction industry’s most important clients (definitely). Yet rumours of strife in its supply chain and a rush of bad publicity appear to be undermining its position.

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    Carillion didn’t buy a pup, it was a monster. How would it tame mowlem?

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    It thought it was getting a fabulous £12bn defence contract tied to an old-style contractor with one or two financial issues, but then came the midnight snacks, and the multimillion-pound writedowns ... Carillion’s boss John McDonough tells Angela Monaghan what happened over the next year

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    The form guide

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    As the results season draws to a close, and in honour of tomorrow’s Grand National, we check the performances of some of construction’s sleekest thoroughbreds. Sarah Richardson is trackside

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    The start of a beautiful friendship

    2007-04-05T00:00:00Z

    The proposed merger between Taylor Woodrow and Wimpey may be the biggest housebuilder deal so far, but it follows a year of frenetic takeover activity. Mark Leftly investigates what lessons this might hold for the new kid on the block

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    The final analysis

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Tessa Jowell has now given us the final, definitive, official budget for the London 2012 Olympics, and it’s a huge increase on the 2005 figure. Or is it? Mark Leftly crunches the numbers

  • Bob Holt (left) and Stuart Black
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    The severed alliance

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Back in 2004 it looked as though social housing firm Mears had picked a dream team. Bob Holt and Stuart Black, the bruiser and the wunderkind, were together at the helm of a City darling. So why did Black walk?

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    The wolves at the door

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    About 21% of large strategic sites in Britain are owned by commercial developers. Private housebuilders own 8%. David Blackman wonders why they aren’t more worried ...

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    Good – but not good enough

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    The National Audit Office has just inspected the government’s city academies programme. Mark Leftly reports on what it had to say, and what the industry says in reply

  • Terry Duxbury
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    Suffering in silence

    2007-02-23T00:00:00Z

    For the 25 years that he was a crane driver, Terry Duxbury endured the job’s unsafe conditions and culture of never speaking out. Here he tells Sarah Richardson about the terrible personal price he had to pay before he found his voice