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Affordable Housing Provider of the Year
One name has been highlighted again and again throughout the finalists’ roll call, so it comes as no surprise that Willmott Dixon has claimed this supreme award, sponsored by ODPM ...
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Channel 4 4homes Award
Homes and Channel 4 4Homes asked the country's top housebuilders to show us the best home they have built over the past year, and let us put it to the test of the general public. over the summer, browsers of Channel 4's 4Homes website have been invited to vote for ...
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Threat and response
Gangs of robbers, terrorists, politically motivated saboteurs … Contractors could be forgiven for thinking that their sites are under siege. But how can they fend off the enemy without blowing all their profit on security?
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Dreaming of England
A project in Japan made a Spaniard and an Iranian the UK's hottest young architects. But for all their international pedigree, what husband-and-wife team Foreign Office really want is to design the London Olympic Games.
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Bovis does the double to top August leagues
Five wins worth £158m take company to top of monthly table and extend its lead over the year.
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Work the room
Are you a wallflower at corporate bashes? Frances Kay, founder of business introductions agency Acumentoo, explains how to network effectively
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Mr Blobby strikes again.
Will Alsop is back – and this time he's fitted his trademark giant pods on legs into the classical Victoria House in London. The planners bought it but will the tenants?
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Come and get me, copper
Any British architect with an ounce of street cred wouldn't dream of cladding their building in anything else – not without getting their collar felt by the style police …
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Inn with the new
When the founders of City Inn commissioned their flagship central London hotel, they wanted something accessible but striking – inside and out. So Bennetts Associates came up with a fresh approach that has rewritten the rulebook for hotel design.
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Local lowdown
In the latest of our regional series, Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose investigates the thriving job market in Scotland
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Cost model: Offices
Sustainability issues are rapidly rising up the corporate agenda. We consider the impact of sustainability measures on commercial buildings and reveal that going green need not cost the earth
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Return of the eco-warrior
A decade after Swampy, environmental protesters are set to make a comeback. This time, their target is not the bypass but the runway, in a bid to scupper government plans for air travel expansion. We look at how contractors can avoid getting caught in the crossfire
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The great office meltdown has begun
After our first real taste of global warming this summer, experts are predicting that 70% of Britain's office buildings will be unusable by the summer of 2030. We find out just what this means for the construction industry
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Private Housebuilding Annual 2003
A guide to 100 of the UK's leading housebuilders by industry expert Fred Wellings
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Parting words
Employers can refuse to supply a reference, but they mustn't write an unfair one
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Lead times
A slackening in demand has meant lead times have not been adversely affected by the summer shutdowns according to Mace.
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Wish you were up there?
Kicking off an occasional series on career development, Kate Allen explores how you can jump up to the next level by tackling your skills gaps. But, she asks, how do you choose the course that's right for you?