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FeaturesDiarmuid Gavin
Don鈥檛 be fooled by the affable exterior 鈥� television鈥檚 most popular gardener is plotting a revolution in our own back yards. Here he lets us in on the secret and tries to recruit you as well.
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FeaturesJohn Redwood
After three years away from the front bench, the poster boy of the Thatcherite right is keen to demonstrate how a Tory government would make 拢35bn of efficiency savings 鈥� and gladden the hearts of the construction industry.
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FeaturesBig in Japan (and China, the USA, Spain, Italy, Germany鈥�)
David Chipperfield has quietly built up a highly exportable architectural practice, with competition wins all over the world. Now, the UK portfolio is belatedly taking shape 鈥� if clients can stop project-managing for long enough
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FeaturesThe messenger
Construction鈥檚 safety record never looks worse than in the living room of a bereaved family. Alan Ritchie knows 鈥� he鈥檚 been there too many times. The new general secretary of UCATT tells us about his plans to make employers and government listen.
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Steve Morgan
With Liverpool still ignoring his advances, the former Redrow boss is turning his attention to a new land-purchase venture. We meet a man throwing himself into his work 鈥�
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FeaturesSecond thoughts
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson鈥檚 very funny, very charming and highly critical account of Britain in the 1990s, made Britons look at themselves slightly differently. But what would he write if he took the same journey today?
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FeaturesThe naked project manager
Philip Ashton PhD may be a reluctant televison star, but he鈥檚 happy to embrace the publicity Channel 4鈥檚 Bricking It has given young people in construction. We meet project management鈥檚 answer to Jamie Oliver.
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FeaturesSo I changed my mind 鈥�
Peter Dixon is the man in charge of a 拢422m PFI hospital in London. He has also written in a national newspaper that hospital PFIs have been a 鈥榗ostly failure鈥�. We invite him to explain himself 鈥� after which we get a second opinion from a woman with very definite ...
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FeaturesThe case against
If Allyson Pollock is right, it won鈥檛 be long before PFI hospitals introduce extra charges for anaesthetic. We find out why.
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FeaturesCutter鈥檚 way
John Oughton, the mandarin in charge of government procurement, is determined to slash the time and money spent on the bidding process. But can he overcome a creaky civil service and an overstretched construction industry?
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FeaturesTalking up a storm
Wates chief Paul Drechsler has been hired to shake up the century-old family business. And he just loves to natter about it. He tells Angela Monaghan all about framework deals, services, Dublin, PFI schools, his workers 鈥� and Eric Clapton.
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FeaturesMr Holt & Mr Black
The chap on the left is the grand wizard who created Mears, the firm that never stops growing. The one on the right has six months to learn how to cast the same spell.
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FeaturesThe ideal partner
John Rackstraw, chief executive of Pearce Group and a devotee of the Egan message, explains how he鈥檚 putting the principles of partnering and integrated supply chains into action
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FeaturesTalking balls with the minister
Phil Hope is charge of chivvying the industry into becoming energy efficient, sustainable and security conscious, while simultaneously championing IT and keeping the ODPM green. So a metaphor rather suggests itself, as we point out.
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FeaturesPresident Clinton
He may not yet be the international political force that Bill once was, but Colin Clinton knows how to use power to effect change 鈥� and not just at the ICE. We talk to him about his modernising agenda, globalisation and lawn mowing.
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FeaturesThe paradox twins
George Hay talks to Bob Allies and Graham Morrison, the men behind the 鈥榰nfashionable鈥� architectural practice that鈥檚 all the rage with Britain鈥檚 biggest clients.
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FeaturesRichard Simmons
The new chief executive of CABE tells Mark Leftly why his last three projects ran into criticism, why Sir Stuart Lipton was right to resign 鈥� and why Jon Rouse is such an easy act to follow.
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FeaturesMore haste, more speed
Ministers may have promised a bill for London鈥檚 superfast transport link Crossrail next spring, but boss Norman Haste is not leaving his 拢9bn project until then. We saw him in action at the Labour Party Conference
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FeaturesRichard McCarthy
The sheer get-up-and-go of the head of the ODPM鈥檚 sustainable communities group is proving increasingly valuable 鈥� particularly in easing the 鈥榗reative tension鈥� between government and housebuilders. We got him to sit still for a minute.
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FeaturesBernard Kasriel: Realpolitic
Bernard Kasriel, chief executive of Lafarge, talks about environment-friendly technology, negotiating with suspicious governments and the delicate business of digging enormous great holes