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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
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What customers think of brownfield
Agent King Sturge asked 400 homeowners and tenants from seven cities what it's like living in urban redevelopment areas 鈥�
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Factfile
Planning approvals The need for Kate Barker's recommendations is plain to see, as planning approvals continue at a low level.The only bright spot is the high-demand, high-value South-east, where approvals almost reached four figures New-build completions Winter weather has done little to hold back build rates, and sales ...
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FeaturesOutside: Now/next
Brick systems slip up cladding popularity charts 鈥� or you can have render, terracotta, zinc, polished masonry, reconstituted stone 鈥� And over the page, this month's products take in a Bristol marina, the south bank of the Thames, the Peak District and the Wiltshire Downs. We're so good to you
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Where has all the land gone?
The government has used the planning system to force developers to put most of their residential developments on brownfield land. And it did to for excellent reasons. Unfortunately, the consequences have been dire.
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FeaturesBasra stories
On the anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Mark Leftly visited UK firms working in the south of the country. He discovered that everyday life for contractors involves death threats, spiralling security costs, kidnapping, shortages of power and water 鈥� and a great deal of raw sewage