All articles by Denise Chevin
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Low carbon agenda: Mixed greens
To a minister in Whitehall, bringing forward regs changes by a year may not seem like much of a leap. But for firms in the real world, it promises massive disruption
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The times they have a-changed
When the head of construction at John Lewis says competitive tendering gets projects done for 10% less than partnering, it’s clear the paradigm has shifted
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Alternative medicine
The gp consortiums will not be a few go-getting practices clubbing together - they’ll be huge organisations that operate over whole counties
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US consultanting giants: About the size of it
Clients who have had a close relationship with a consultant they see as independent and free thinking could hesitate before employing a more impersonal multinational
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Degrees of awfulness
George Osborne’s Budget isn’t as bad as we feared – but it’s still going to hurt
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Existing contracts are next coalition target
Government says it will renegotiate key contracts by 2011
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Housebuilding gets all shook up
With regional spatial strategies binned, is the recent housebuilding revival in jeopardy? And what about density targets?
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Now every penny counts
The new PM is putting all the skills he learned as a PR to work in preparing us for his deficit reduction measures
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The HCA must survive
We’re living in anxious times. And if you’re in the social housing world, it’s as nerve-jangling as it gets
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The new austerity begins now
One of the side effects of spending five days in limbo after the general election is that some of the construction industry might have got the funny idea that nothing much had changed
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Should you join the yellow tide?
By the time you read these words on Friday, Nick Clegg may have fumbled the second leadership debate and the public’s sudden passion for the Lib Dems could have evaporated
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Davis Langdon at the crossroads
Even men with hearts of iron have reason to be concerned about whether a sale to Aecom would make financial sense
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Starving artist syndrome
The BA saga might be giving unions a controversial reputation, but a more organised workforce wouldn’t go amiss in the architecture profession right now
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Something to shout about
One of the best bits of news we’ve heard in a long time was delivered by Ed Miliband last week
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The real cost of regulation
According to the government, providing homebuyers with a plentiful supply of new homes has been an important goal for most of the past decade
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Surfing building.co.uk
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Wrong time for an overhaul
Over the past few decades our system for regulating the supply of land and what can or cannot be built on it has become labyrinthine