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CommentFamily contractors: Adapt or die
Willmott Dixon shows it鈥檚 not good enough just to sit still
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CommentLocalism in Walthamstow: Down at the local
For an unsettling preview of where the localism agenda may be heading, take a look at our piece on the battle of Walthamstow Stadium. It鈥檚 a familiar story of an ambitious developer expertly jumping through all the regulatory hoops to overhaul a popular local landmark.On paper the plan looked a ...
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CommentA harsh reality check
Arup鈥檚 redundancies this week are an unfortunate reflection of the state of the industry
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CommentMoney where the mouth is
It鈥檚 already turning into the kind of high-stakes City game where fortunes and reputations can be made or broken.
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CommentBye-bye Bovis
The year has just begun and already one of the oldest names in UK construction is on the way out
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CommentOnce upon a year ...
For many of you, 2010 has been a year of little comfort and even less joy
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CommentIt's even tougher out there
The world is about to get nastier for construction. Having endured months of uncertainty and finger-in-the-air budgeting, you鈥檒l no doubt want to wrap your 2010 numbers up and dump them in the bin, along with those of 2009 and 2008
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CommentAttack of the clones
Atkins this week becomes the latest British firm to reveal it has fallen victim to Chinese fraudsters
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CommentFairness heads south
Come back John Prescott, all is forgiven! You probably never thought you鈥檇 hear such a plea
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CommentA riches to rags story
The sudden suspension on Monday in the shares of Rok - 鈥渢he nation鈥檚 local builder鈥� - would have surprised few in the City.
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CommentPaul Morrell's first year at Whitehall: Paul's plan
The government鈥檚 construction advisor has been in the job for a year - we take stock
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CommentWhat Dan Labbad told us
Labbad seems to want Bovis to emulate companies such as Berkeley Group, which are able to change their strategy on a sixpence and leave threepence change
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CommentSpending review: What鈥檚 the damage?
We now have certainty and the knowledge that government plans to invest
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CommentComprehensive Spending Review: Brace yourself for bad news
Kier topped our monthly business barometer chart thanks to contracts worth 拢160m. This time last year it was also in the lead, but then its haul was 拢660m
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CommentDon't kid yourself
Our Top 250 consultants league table shows the harsh realities gripping the construction sector, and there鈥檚 no sign of improvement yet
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CommentHello, Ed 鈥�
Ed Miliband took to the Labour party conference stage this week and declared himself firmly on your side. 鈥淵ou see, when you cancel thousands of new school buildings at a stroke, it isn鈥檛 just bad for our kids, it鈥檚 bad for construction companies at a time when their order books ...
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Spending cuts: Education was just the start...
After the shock of the education spending massacre, the cutbacks will probably provoke despair rather than anger
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CommentKicking out the jams: Academies framework
If contractors were peeved at not being on the academies framework before, they鈥檒l be shedding some tears after the latest piece of news鈥�