All Leader articles – Page 40

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    A great leap forward

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    With its grand entrance, impressive atrium, relaxed restaurants and break-out spaces, Bexley Academy in south-east London is more blue-chip corporate headquarters than secondary school.

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    The X factor

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Every year we have the delightful task of sifting through hundreds of marvellous submissions all vying for one of the categories in the BDA Brick Awards.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Let’s talk about sex

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    In these days of chronic skills shortages, any initiative to double construction’s pool of potential recruits is welcome.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Don’t panic

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    The housing market. It’s a national obsession. Doubly so if you work in the construction industry and your memory stretches back to the early 1990s, the big crash and the grisly business of cutting people out of the wreckage of their homes and jobs.

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    Rouse … to Simmons

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Succession is a tricky proposition, especially when your predecessor has made the job his own. Witness the plight of Jonny Wilkinson, the wunderkind of English rugby, who has been handed the captaincy of his national side last week after an eight-month injury. He has the small challenge of getting the ...

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Good times don’t come cheap

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    “We’ve had six fantastic years of steady growth. Now it feels much more fragile.”

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    Laboured, not loved

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    “The British people have lost confidence in Tony Blair but still prefer him as prime minister to Michael Howard,“ a poll in The Times revealed this week.

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    Foreword

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Good design is at the heart of our aim to create sustainable communities across the country.

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    Stand and deliver

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Up until two weeks ago, we thought that 150,000 additional households were being formed every year.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Holyrood: The reckoning

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Even after the acres of column inches and the yards of screeching headlines dedicated to the creation of the Scottish parliament building, the Fraser report still manages to add another degree of chill.

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    Demanding satisfaction

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Brighton. Buxton. Broadway. Bradford. Britain’s most lively townscapes gained their individual character because development was in the hands of local specialists. Today most of the country’s output comes from volume housebuilders, and they work wherever there is a local market.

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    The final mistake

    2004-09-03T00:00:00Z

    We are, hopefully, just weeks away from achieving closure at Holyrood.

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    When will you pay me?

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The plight of Spectrum, the fit-out contractor that called in the administrators last week, illustrates why passions are running so high on the subject of payment (see news).

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    Multiplex on the spot

    2004-08-06T00:00:00Z

    The FA may have other things on its mind than the construction of Wembley, but news that the stadium is presently hosting a good old-fashioned firefight between sub and main contractors should give anyone left at Soho Square additional cause for concern.

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    You animals..

    2004-07-30T00:00:00Z

    Welcome to ڶ’s annual league table of the 100 biggest UK contracting and housebuilding giants, ranked by turnover, pre-tax profit, operating margin and more besides.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Contract killing

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Nobody will be in the least critical of Montpellier’s decision to walk away from Oxford University’s medical research centre. Over the past few months, animal rights activists have subjected management, shareholders, staff and their families to vile intimidation, vandalism and fraud.

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    Two cheers for Mr Brown

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    So it was good news for construction on Monday.

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    Jarvis on the brink

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    There won't be too many tears shed in the construction industry this week over the spectacle of Jarvis teetering on the edge of the precipice.

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    Pidgley's gambit

    2004-07-02T00:00:00Z

    So what is Tony Pidgley up to? His decision to shrink Berkeley Homes and reinvent it as a regeneration specialist has set minds and pulses racing across the city and the housebuilding sector.

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    Leader

    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    The BDA has published the results of the first annual survey of the key performance indicators identified in our Sustainability Strategy (see news).