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FeaturesHouse party
Ministers and MPs mingled with construction leaders at 精东影视's annual reception on the House of Commons terrace, where the industry was praised warmly by Nigel Griffiths
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A world beyond conference centres
Stan Hornagold, senior partner at management consultant Hornagold & Hills, gives us some principles to follow if the Thames Gateway development is to succeed
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FeaturesTime machine
Completion dates in contracts are more wishful thinking than statement of fact. But what if you could predict the actual time it takes to construct buildings? We look at an aid that's supposed to transport clients and consultants into a more certain future.
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FeaturesHow鈥檚 this for reality?
Find one badly rundown mining town; set up a team of regeneration agencies, architects and council; ask the straight-talking locals what they want to happen. Then stick a TV camera in front of the lot 鈥� and watch.
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FeaturesThe short straw
Changes to the way in which the government funds research and development means that construction now has to compete with the rest of UK industry for the DTI's money. The prospects are not good 鈥�
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Factfile
Planning approvals Scottish planning approvals are soaring compared with April's 617, whereas numbers in the South-east have unexpectedly plummeted from 796 last month. Wales is gradually coming back with an eight-fold increase This data is provided by Glenigan, the development monitoring service. More than 10,000 new UK housing projects are ...
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FeaturesInside: Now/Next
Is it a wall or is it a window? Some designs may get you guessing, but only about the back of the house 鈥� house fronts remain traditional.
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FeaturesThe taste temptation
Once dismissed by housebuilders as a diversion, optional extras are now seen as a way of luring the customer into shelling out for the show home look. We look at ways you can cook up business
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FeaturesBeat bullies
Workplace bullying is ruining a growing number of people's lives. We look at how it can be stopped
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FeaturesSkilled solution
ConstructionSkills is launching a drive to tackle the skills crisis. The initiative 鈥� Action for Skills 鈥� aims to kick-start a debate among employers on training. In the first of five monthly articles, 精东影视, in association with ConstructionSkills, looks at what's gone wrong and how it can be fixed.
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FeaturesSomething about pete
How does a 34-year-old accountant with no real previous get the top of one of the country's largest housebuilders? Well, as we found out, a brain the size of a planet helps 鈥�
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Lead times
Lead times are staying level in most sectors, but there is still a lot of worry over steel demand, according to Mace's Rob Darrow. Over the page, Gavin Murgatroyd of Gardiner & Theobald shines the spotlight on roofing
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In our defence
As head of media relations for the Scottish parliament, Annette McCann (Letters, 11 June, page 33) should be concentrating on explaining the near 950% increase in cost to the taxpayer, rather than criticising your article for stating the cost inaccurately by a mere 5%.
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FeaturesSprint finish
Well, what were they worried about? Fifty days to go and it's all over bar smoothing the sand in the long jump pit. But how did the Greeks, and Santiago Calatrava, turn a near disaster into a national triumph? We went to Athens to find out
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FeaturesStuck in the eighties?
Remember the decade that taste forgot? Dennis Lenard reckons that the construction industry never left it. We ask some key figures if the industry really is frozen in time
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FeaturesTravellin' man
Charlie Hughes of Smart Futures discusses air miles, broken backs, Saddam Hussein and sustainability with us.