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FeaturesThe new boy
The previous chief executive of 黑洞社区 Schools for the Future spent eight stormy months struggling with the brief before jumping overboard. Tim Byles, the local authority bureaucrat who replaces him, has a different plan, a different style, and (he hopes) a different fate.
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NewsUK bosses prosper at Bilfinger
German contractor Bilfinger Berger has promoted Martin Pugh to head its UK and Ireland concessions/PPP business as part of a management shake-up.
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NewsBSF chief: financial close 鈥榯akes 32 months鈥�
黑洞社区 Schools for the Future (BSF) schemes take more than two-and-a-half years to reach financial close, the man running the 拢45bn programme has admitted.
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NewsJason Millett surprises with latest move
Ex-Bovis Lend Lease UK boss ignores the call of industry giants to join upwardly mobile Artisan as deputy chief executive
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NewsJason Millett joins Artisan as deputy chief executive
Former Bovis Lend Lease boss accepts Manchester role having turned down senior job at Shepherd
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Features鈥榃e don鈥檛 hug trees and do Kum Ba Yah鈥�
Murray Coleman is not a man to mince his words, as Mark Leftly found when he trailed the new Bovis Lend Lease construction boss around one of the contractor鈥檚 more problematic PFI projects
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FeaturesTypical. You wait years for a report setting out government policy on vital areas like housing and transport and then three come at once 鈥�
Ahead of Gordon Brown鈥檚 pre-Budget report on Wednesday, the government released a series of weighty tomes on policy strategy. Here David Blackman and Mark Leftly provide an at-a-glance guide to them
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NewsTop Wimbledon courts will be rebuilt for Olympics
All-England Club plans makeover for No 2 and No 3 courts as it prepares for Olympics
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Laing poised to expand into Europe and North America
Developer sets up in Prague and Toronto as deal with fund manager Henderson moves closer
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NewsRoyal enclosure lawn to be ripped up in Ascot upheaval
Radical solution to racecourse鈥檚 viewing problems would put lawn out of action for three months
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FeaturesPutting Stratford on the map
The 拢4bn redevelopment of Stratford City was always going to be big, but when London won the Games last year it ballooned. By 2012 the two projects, which are now inextricably linked, will have created an urban centre with transport links to rival Waterloo. Mark Leftly reports on the transformation ...
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FeaturesFive days in June
Although it鈥檚 mostly a question of hobnobbing and hats, the punters at Royal Ascot do like to see the races as well. Mark Leftly and Tom Broughton report on why its new grandstand was built with restricted views, and what鈥檚 being done to put it right
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NewsRoyal enclosure lawn to be ripped up in Ascot upheaval
Radical solution to racecourse鈥檚 viewing problems would put lawn out of action for three months
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NewsJack's Olympic broadside
Jack Lemley assertion that working on the London Olympics could have ruined his reputation for delivering projects on time will hit the confidence of all those involved
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Irish contractor buys Bison Structures
Acquisition is part of SIAC's plans to grow UK operations by 60% within five years
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FeaturesUnmasking Mr Morello
Remember that odd letter you got from an unknown Italian? This is who sent it
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FeaturesHow Hodge will help us
After five years of feeling sidelined by ministers, the construction industry seems to have found a genuine champion in Margaret Hodge. Mark Leftly went to meet one of life鈥檚 enthusiasts
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Features鈥楾he more the OGC is decimated, the more celebration there will be鈥�
The Office of Government Commerce spent the first six months of this year undergoing a review that questioned its very existence. Whether it lives or dies is unknown. What is certain is that it will never be the same again.
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FeaturesMore than just a QS
Paul Morrell will leave a big hole when he says goodbye to Davis Langdon
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NewsTreasury to insert get-out clause into PFI contracts
Government to give public sector the power to break long-term operating contracts