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Don鈥檛 panic
The housing market. It鈥檚 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 鈥� to Simmons
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 ...
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Good times don鈥檛 come cheap
鈥淲e鈥檝e had six fantastic years of steady growth. Now it feels much more fragile.鈥�
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Laboured, not loved
鈥淭he British people have lost confidence in Tony Blair but still prefer him as prime minister to Michael Howard,鈥� a poll in The Times revealed this week.
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Foreword
Good design is at the heart of our aim to create sustainable communities across the country.
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Stand and deliver
Up until two weeks ago, we thought that 150,000 additional households were being formed every year.
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Holyrood: The reckoning
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
Brighton. Buxton. Broadway. Bradford. Britain鈥檚 most lively townscapes gained their individual character because development was in the hands of local specialists. Today most of the country鈥檚 output comes from volume housebuilders, and they work wherever there is a local market.
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When will you pay me?
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
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..
Welcome to 黑洞社区鈥檚 annual league table of the 100 biggest UK contracting and housebuilding giants, ranked by turnover, pre-tax profit, operating margin and more besides.
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Contract killing
Nobody will be in the least critical of Montpellier鈥檚 decision to walk away from Oxford University鈥檚 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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Jarvis on the brink
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
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
The BDA has published the results of the first annual survey of the key performance indicators identified in our Sustainability Strategy (see news).
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Divided we fail
If we want buildings that don't endanger their occupants or break down in other ways, then we must play safe with their design.
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A sustained attack
Sustainability is at the top of the government's agenda at the moment. The industry is being bombarded with reports on how to use fewer natural resources and a sustainable buildings code has been proposed that will force designers of public sector buildings and social housing to specify sustainable materials. English ...
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The guests are arriving
Isn鈥檛 the point of the European Union鈥檚 single market to increase the flows of goods, services, capital and labour, and thereby increase economic efficiency?