All Leader articles – Page 25
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A harsh reality check
Arup’s redundancies this week are an unfortunate reflection of the state of the industry
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Money where the mouth is
It’s already turning into the kind of high-stakes City game where fortunes and reputations can be made or broken.
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Bye-bye Bovis
The year has just begun and already one of the oldest names in UK construction is on the way out
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Once upon a year ...
For many of you, 2010 has been a year of little comfort and even less joy
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It's even tougher out there
The world is about to get nastier for construction. Having endured months of uncertainty and finger-in-the-air budgeting, you’ll no doubt want to wrap your 2010 numbers up and dump them in the bin, along with those of 2009 and 2008
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Attack of the clones
Atkins this week becomes the latest British firm to reveal it has fallen victim to Chinese fraudsters
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Fairness heads south
Come back John Prescott, all is forgiven! You probably never thought you’d hear such a plea
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A riches to rags story
The sudden suspension on Monday in the shares of Rok - “the nation’s local builder” - would have surprised few in the City.
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Paul Morrell's first year at Whitehall: Paul's plan
The government’s construction advisor has been in the job for a year - we take stock
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What Dan Labbad told us
Labbad seems to want Bovis to emulate companies such as Berkeley Group, which are able to change their strategy on a sixpence and leave threepence change
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Spending review: What’s the damage?
We now have certainty and the knowledge that government plans to invest
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Comprehensive Spending Review: Brace yourself for bad news
Kier topped our monthly business barometer chart thanks to contracts worth £160m. This time last year it was also in the lead, but then its haul was £660m
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Don't kid yourself
Our Top 250 consultants league table shows the harsh realities gripping the construction sector, and there’s no sign of improvement yet
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Hello, Ed …
Ed Miliband took to the Labour party conference stage this week and declared himself firmly on your side. “You see, when you cancel thousands of new school buildings at a stroke, it isn’t just bad for our kids, it’s bad for construction companies at a time when their order books ...
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Spending cuts: Education was just the start...
After the shock of the education spending massacre, the cutbacks will probably provoke despair rather than anger
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Kicking out the jams: Academies framework
If contractors were peeved at not being on the academies framework before, they’ll be shedding some tears after the latest piece of news…
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We've failed economics
You will no doubt recall the talk from David Cameron during the election about the big society that was to replace big government
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Maglev vs high-speed rail: Should we change trains?
The billions we will spend on HS2 will get us from London to Birmingham 28 minutes faster than the present system does. After Birmingham, the trains will travel on old lines
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The fire alarm is ringing
It’s official: if a timber-frame building catches fire, it will suffer more damage than if it were built using other forms of construction