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Easing off the gas
In this month's survey, Experian Business Strategies reports that growth in construction activity continued to lose momentum in April and that it is expected to maintain its slightly cautious pace until July
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Focus on the regions
A closer look at activity levels and order books in 11 regions around the UK reveals that things have been looking up in the North-west, the Midlands, Wales and the South-west
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FeaturesRespect yourself
Two years after John Prescott launched his construction safety drive, the industry is coming under renewed pressure to improve its dreadful accident record.
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Need an energy boost?
As the tired old commercial sector flags, a bright and bouyant industry sneaks up from behind and overtakes it. We jog alongside
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Hew Tittensor
Being sued is every partnership's nightmare, but there's a novel way to limit your liability
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Trading up
Gary Redman of NOW recruitment shows how to respond if you are wooed by a headhunter
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FeaturesThree-part harmony
Designing a housing estate can get a bit monotonous so Feilden Clegg Bradley brought in a couple of chums to swing along with
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FeaturesBravo to zero
The Peabody Trust's BedZED carbon-neutral scheme has been hailed as a triumph of sustainable community design (take a bow, Bill Dunster). But what is it like actually living there? Thomas Lane met two of the residents – and took their niggles to the innovator himself …
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FeaturesThe dealer
Chief executive of Harvest Housing Group Ian Perry has spent three years slogging to pull off the first housing PFI pathfinder project. It's entailed some pretty deft diplomacy and some hard bargaining, but it's finally paid off. Josephine Smit tell the inside story.
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Planning approvals
May was a quiet month for planning approvals with fewer than 2000 consents granted, well down on last month's 3500. Essex-based Wickford Developments tops the private housebuilder table.
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New-build completions
Although planning consents were down dramatically in May, housebuilders were maintaining their build rates and the number of completions in May was over the 12,000 mark. Housing association completions, however, remained at very low levels.
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In the altogether
What does a building really cost? You'll only find out if you consider life-cycle costing, says Stan Bruin, director at Monk Dunstone Associates
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FeaturesCircling the square
We visit the new buildings at Paternoster Square, next door to St Paul鈥檚 Cathedral, and find them to be a great British success story 鈥� because they give everybody something to moan about 鈥�
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FeaturesThe Madchester Generation
In 1992, while the Happy Mondays and Inspiral Carpets were topping the pops, a band of pioneering regeneration professionals formed a tight clique, took on the seemingly impossible task of transforming the notorious Hulme Estate 鈥� and haven't looked back since. We chart their successes
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FeaturesComing of age
In 1991, 精东影视 published a special supplement to mark the completion of the fledgling Canary Wharf development.
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FeaturesReach for the sky
George Iacobescu has been working on Canary Wharf since 1987. Now chief executive of its developer, he explains how the company created a place 鈥� plus, overleaf, we tell the estate's story
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FeaturesTower records
It took just 15 years to create this commercial district and fill it with stunning architecture. Here are the contractors and consultants who built Manhattan-on-Thames, and a few answers to the question: 'What's your favourite building at Canary Wharf?'
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FeaturesWho's the new kid?
There's another tower taking shape near One Canada Square. It's a headquarters for Barclays and, for the construction team behind all the buildings on the estate, another chance to hone their skills