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Skills card may be extended in crackdown on illegal workers
Head of Construction Skills Certification Scheme to present case to Home Office for its use in other industries.
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Staff bail out High-Point Rendel
Directors and management step in to save troubled Birmingham consultant by taking pay delays and offering loans.
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FeaturesWhat's going on, John?
One minute Prescott is slamming housebuilders for the shortage of new homes, the next he's hitting key developments with planning demands so tough that the schemes screech to a halt. No wonder the industry is a little dazed and confused 鈥�
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Foreign affairs
With European Union enlargement only months away and more clients dipping into international markets, what better time for consultants to set up shop abroad? Victoria Madine considers the different approaches that UK organisations take to forge overseas links.
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Just the job
Simon Wallace, Turner & Townsend's head of management consultancy, talks about his new role and why the next wave of consultants are likely to come from construction
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Europe here we come
Thinking of expanding into Europe? The benefits may well outweigh the risks
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Five lessons in entrepreneurship
A good idea is not enough 鈥� although it's a good start. Ingenuity and hard work are just as important as a good idea. Having said that, a simple idea can reap rich rewards. A good idea also requires persistence. If you lose heart in your idea, you won't have ...
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Bowmer & Kirkland surges ahead to steal the top spot
Midlands firm continues to astound as it beats off Sir Robert McAlpine 鈥� which hangs onto yearly pole position.
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FeaturesSpace station
In the planet's most barren landscape, a highly-trained crew of scientists are on a single mission: to track inter-stellar activity using the world's largest telescope. But they need somewhere to live 鈥�
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FeaturesTo be Frank
Realising an unwieldy Frank Gehry design means learning to work the Gehry way, as the team on his Dundee cancer therapy centre quickly found out. And although the architect's first UK building is surprisingly small, the difficulties it caused were anything but 鈥�
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Lead times: Piling
Lead times are fairly balanced in the final quarter of the year, with an equal number of sectors lengthening and shortening deliveries, according to Mace. And overleaf, Gardiner & Theobald throws the spotlight on piling 鈥�
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Jeffries draws up shortlist for hot seat at Atkins
Main board expected to discuss possible applicants for post of chief executive at meeting this week.
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O'Rourke: We need no replacement for Andy White
Laing O鈥橰ourke chairman and chief executive Ray O鈥橰ourke says he does not intend to appoint a successor to former chief operating officer Andy White.O鈥橰ourke said the group did not need another chief operating officer because the integration of Laing had been so successful. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not an issue. We are one ...
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Wolstenholme gets top job at Heathrow's Terminal 5
Former group construction director at BAA becomes T5 supremo after departure of Haste to CrossRail.
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FeaturesThe 2003 精东影视 Awards: your last chance to enter
If you want to be a winner at the industry's most prestigious awards, you've only got one week to get your entry in. Here's a list of the 18 categories, as well as the judges and sponsors who make it possible
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FeaturesThe equaliser
Ras Patel, himself the victim of a racial attack, is in charge of ridding construction of racism. He tells Tom Broughton that the best way forward is to persuade companies that racial equality makes good business sense.
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Breaking the sound barrier
The government has identified noisy neighbours as a serious problem for its urban policy, and it's told housebuilders to keep them quiet 鈥� or else. The only problem is that the industry will have to move at Mach two to comply.
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FeaturesLondon will never look the same again
Thanks to the Swiss Re project team who worked out how to build this hugely clever, hugely complex building, kept to within a few days of the schedule and put the top 3 mm away from where they wanted it. Andy Pearson explains how they did it