Richard Heap

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    Where in the world?

    2006-06-16T00:00:00

    From the salmon runs of British Columbia to the golf courses of Hong Kong, the white rum of Antigua to the jade green pastis of southern France … there's a whole world waiting for you. Hays Construction & Property and ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV's international salary guide helps you take off the blindfold ...

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    After the wobble

    2005-12-09T00:00:00

    Ahhh, Christmas … Time for old chums to get together, share memories, slap backs, redistribute blame and generally relive their glory days. For this lot, those days were spent designing, building, redesigning and amending the Millennium Bridge. So here’s your chance to eavesdrop on Arup, Foster and Partners, Sir Robert ...

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    Join the queue

    2005-12-02T00:00:00

    The anticipated sale of Westbury to rival Persimmon may improve the housebuilding sector’s standing in the City, but it could also lead to the loss of hundreds of jobs – if Persimmon’s track record is anything to go by.

  • Elliot Lipton: bringing to bear the expertise of the commercial developer
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    The inheritors

    2005-11-25T00:00:00

    The standard business model of the standard volume housebuilder is well tried, well tested and increasingly obsolete. Now the market is being invaded by dynamic, agile firms that have adapted to an environment in which affordability, sustainability and brownfield expertise are what count.

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    The year of the carrot

    2005-11-11T00:00:00

    In 2005 executives have enjoyed unprecedented bonus packages, as companies search for ways of getting peak performances from their upper echelon, according to the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV/Hays Executive salary guide. But they’re also making them harder to collect …

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    ‘400 sets of regulations’

    2005-11-11T00:00:00

    Who will set definitive sustainability targets? Nobody really knows because there are many different rules – one imposed by the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Regulations and the rest by local planners. The result is likely to be widespread confusion.

  • Armstrong: Hoping to change minds about the benefits of green buildings
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    RICS makes the commercial case for green buildings

    2005-10-28T00:00:00

    Environment-friendly buildings offer high returns on investment and improve productivity, says RICS report

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    At first It was like the battle of the Somme

    2005-10-21T00:00:00

    Today ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV launches Projects Reunited. Here you can catch up with former colleagues from legendary schemes you worked on together and find out how everybody is doing now. To get the ball rolling, we assembled 18 old chums who braved the muddy wastes of the Millennium Dome site …

  • Mick Chapman (left) and Darren Harper were laid off at Longbridge. Now they’re learning new skills and helping to plug construction’s labour gap
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    Driving force

    2005-10-07T00:00:00

    Five thousand workers lost their jobs in the tragic, well-publicised closure of MG Rover’s Longbridge factory. Now, there is a scheme to retrain them that could also help ease the construction industry’s skills crisis. A brilliant solution – so why won’t more firms jump on the bandwagon?

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    Do you trust this man?

    2005-09-30T00:00:00

    Ian Livsey, head of the new TrustMark accreditation scheme, wants to banish cowboy builders from the market. But how will he get the industry on side?