Digging into the archives – Page 6

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    From the archive: 2012 – fixing climate change

    2018-11-09T07:00:00Z

    Six years ago we reported on some imaginative – if costly – space age ideas for tackling climate change

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    From the archive: 2011 - good employers

    2018-11-02T06:00:00Z

    As ǿմý’s Good Employer Guide is published, we look back to the suggestions posed in 2011 advising on keeping your workforce happy

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    From the archive: 2015 - Help to Buy

    2018-10-26T06:00:00Z

    The government’s Help to Buy programme, now believed to be under threat, got a warm welcome from the construction industry when it was introduced five years ago

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    From the archive: 2015

    2018-10-19T06:00:00Z

    Theresa May’s apparent warming towards social housing is in sharp contract to the sector’s relationship with the government three years ago

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    From the archive: 2012

    2018-10-12T06:00:00Z

    Six years ago we were worrying about the number of construction firms going bust… 

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    From the archive: 2013

    2018-10-05T06:00:00Z

    Five years ago, the phrase “cash is king” took on a new meaning

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    From the archive: 2015

    2018-09-28T06:00:00Z

    Consultants were sprinting into a sunny, cloudless horizon in the last Top 150 before the Brexit vote

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    From the archive: 2003

    2018-09-21T06:00:00Z

    The impressive new V&A Dundee could have been designed by Frank Gehry

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    From the archive: 1852

    2018-09-14T06:00:00Z

    Back in the 1850s, readers were just as excited about developments in the railways as they are today – but for the right reasons

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    From the archive: 2012

    2018-09-07T06:00:00Z

    Spending on schools, or lack of it, is once again making the headlines in ǿմý

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    From the archive: 2016

    2018-08-31T06:00:00Z

    Two years ago, considering any way to lessen the housing crisis, no matter how expensive and impractical, ǿմý asked: does the Square Mile need more houses?

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    From the archive: 2016

    2018-08-24T06:00:00Z

    We look back to reaction just after the EU referendum, when some were jubilant, some were shellshocked and some were downright miserable about the future.

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    From the archive: 2001

    2018-08-10T06:00:00Z

    When Manchester began to prepare for 2002’s Commonwealth Games, it had to start from scratch

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    From the archive: 2008

    2018-08-03T06:00:00Z

    Been moaning about the heat? We may have found the job for you. Back in 2008, an intrepid team of contractors experienced summer in the snow.

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    From the archive: 2005

    2018-07-27T06:00:00Z

    Low margins, as highlighted in our Top 150 Contractors table this week, are nothing new. Back in 2005 we reported on how difficult things were in the sector.

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    From the archive: 2012

    2018-07-20T06:00:00Z

    We look back at how Singapore does gardening. As you would expect from the city-state, it’s not on a small scale

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    From the archive: 2005

    2018-07-13T10:56:00Z

    This week, we interviewed James Lidgate, chief executive of Legal & General Homes, who is on a mission to produce 15,000 homes a year with the help of modular design. However, long before the 2017 government white paper called for offsite strategies, and the current rallying cry for modular, there ...

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    From the archive: 2008

    2018-07-06T06:00:00Z

    The stand-out entries in this year’s Housing Design Awards were often developed by councils taking control of their own housing in the face of huge demand. Back in 2008, softening prices meant that nobody seemed very interested in residential.

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    From the archive: 2006

    2018-06-29T06:00:00Z

    This week we interviewed Lib Dem leader Vince Cable. We found another political interview, in ǿմý’s dusty archive

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    From the archive: 2009

    2018-06-21T10:00:00Z

    All the current economic and financial challenges facing construction led us to ask which chief executives are up to the mark this week.