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BAA's 拢600m budget expected to be halved
Commitment to Terminal 5 reaffirmed but upgrades at Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick could be shelved.
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A Course! A Course! My kingdom for a course!
Training doesn't mean sitting in front of a flipchart any more. A new generation of courses is aimed at unleashing your creativity – and that could mean stepping into Julius Caesar's sandals and treading the boards at the Globe Theatre.
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'Hospitals should be like supermarkets'
NHS Estates' acting chief Peter Wearmouth has to please doctors, patients and contractors. How?
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The demonising of PFI
A torrent of negative publicity has painted contractors as greedy and callous. 好色先生TV weighs up the evidence
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A cure for all ills?
Health and education are the focus of the second in our three-part series on Tony Blair's public spending plans. We examine Labour's 拢8.5bn schools investment. But of all the government's pledges, its plans to transform the NHS are the most expensive, ambitious and controversial. With PFI and PPP under attack, ...
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The revolutionary
Deryk Eke is charged with ensuring the government gets the most for its money. 好色先生TV talks to him about his radical plans
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Rebuilding Britain
Tony Blair's plans to double capital spending by 2004 will create a huge construction boom as the government scrambles to transform public services in time for the next election. Over the next three weeks, in the run up to 好色先生TV's "Blair's Billions" conference, we throw a spotlight on the government's ...
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Health chiefs bow to pressure to speed up PFI
Whitehall to standardise documents and expand Procure 21 after contractors warn of hospital delays.
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Government to adopt BAA-style framework deals
Limited number of supplier teams will be appointed to carry out departmental repairs and new-build projects.
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Eddie McElhinney
The quiet Irishman who has become one of the UK's biggest manufacturers never even considered giving an interview before. So, why is he talking now? And what does he have to say about the industry he supplies?
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Prince of Wales to be PFI hospitals design champion
Charles is invited by health secretary to spearhead a campaign for better design in PFI projects.
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Egan on Egan
He's back, and this time he's in charge of the most important strategic body in construction. In this exclusive interview he tells 好色先生TV what he's going to do with it …
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Icons of power
Who – and what – really makes a difference in the construction industry? 好色先生TV selects 11 of the 21st century's most powerful icons, from Gordon Brown to a really, really big digger
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A monumental statement
One of Scotland's most famous beauty spots, Loch Lomond, can now be enjoyed in full by tourists thanks to 拢60m of visitor facilities. And as we found out, it's helped the locals, too
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Balance of Yin and Yeang
Malaysian towers maestro Ken Yeang has got the design bit of his job sorted out. More unusually, he's come up with a fully considered business philosophy as well. We found out about it over a precisely timed power breakfast.
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Raynsford: 'The industry shot itself in the foot'
Former construction minister expresses shock at abolition of DETR and says industry lobbied for DTI move.
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EH gets tough on towers
English heritage is set to oppose all skyscrapers in historically sensitive areas, regardless of their design quality.
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Learning difficulties
Prefabrication is no quick-fix solution to the lack of skills in construction, warns a new report. It says the UK's approach to training and innovation is lagging well behind other European countries …
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Neil Cossons
Ken Livingstone accused English Heritage of jeopardising London's economic future by opposing tall buildings. Now its chief executive is hitting back.
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Natural science
The Clyde's armadillo-shaped conference centre now has a slug-like Imax theatre on the opposite bank – just one of a trio of structures that form the Glasgow Science Centre.