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Tender price forecast: Racing upward
The good news is that demand for construction services is going to remain strong for the next few years, and prices are going to rise rapidly. The bad news is that labour shortages and China’s astonishing boom will push up suppliers’ costs, too. Davis Langdon and Everest reports
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FeaturesToxic shock
A teeny little EU landfill directive that the government has overlooked now threatens to blow up in its face 鈥� and even destroy its vision of brownfield regeneration.
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FeaturesRoll up the beige carpet
It's a fact that all office workers hate their offices. But what if the workspace changes beyond recognition? What if wireless devices replace phones and cafes replace desks? Well for one thing, we'd find it harder to moan about our jobs
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FeaturesEconomies of space
We look at how MacCormac Jamieson Prichard took a tiny patch of land squished between buildings at the London School of Economics and turned it into an Italian-style piazza that is now the heart of the campus.
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Housebuilders set to join the superleague
The housebuilding industry may start winning hearts and minds in the City if the largest players can break into the FTSE 100 鈥� and one or two are almost there
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My take 鈥� on the cost consultant's new name
My take on the rebranding of my company as Davis Langdon, with Everest falling away, is that it is a significant decision in advancing and strengthening the firm's image at home and abroad.
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FeaturesKeith Clarke
We meet the man with one of the truly epic jobs in British construction: taking over Britain's biggest consultant, redefining its strategy and making it work. Here he talks to us about how he plans to tackle this mammoth task 鈥� with detours around plastic lunchboxes and leather underpants.
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FeaturesFast track
Why the Bahrain F1 project team could teach Michael Schumacher a thing or two about acceleration
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FeaturesGordon's spring surprise
Mr Brown's Budget statement included a reference to the creation of CIPER, a forum where top dogs from the construction industry and the government can talk turkey. But wasn't that why the strategic forum was created?
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FeaturesSourcing timber in Uganda: King of the jungle
Why an intrepid Oxford QS had to trek into the Ugandan jungle to find a solution for the High Commission building in Kampala 鈥� and make sure the locals weren't up to any tricks. We report on an African adventure
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Auntie helps Bovis to top with 拢530m in February
Bovis Lend Lease also extends lead over Laing in annual tables 鈥� now 拢550m ahead at 拢1.8bn
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FeaturesPower shift
Remember the rancid system-built slums they put up across the country, from East Kilbride to south Acton? And the people who dressed their children in damp clothes every morning while they waited for the government or the council to get them out? Well this last extract from CABE/RIBA's Housing 2024 ...
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Local lowdown
With increased public spending in the North-east, demand for housing professionals is high. Robert Smith of Hays Montrose looks at what's on offer
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FeaturesHappy to be here
As the UK prepares to welcome to Eastern European workers in May, we meet Yolanda Dwornik, a Polish immigrant from an earlier generation who made it to this country against very long odds indeed.
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Just what we wanted
Graham Watts, chief executive of the Construction Industry Council, explains why he lobbied for CIPER and why it has a vital role to play