10 most-read stories on ContractJournal.com in 2008

This is one of a series of articles looking at the content that users found most of interest on ContractJournal.com during 2008.

In the year that the credit crunch bit, it was perhaps inevitable that stories about struggling companies dominated. Also of interest was the Olympics, health and safety, the new Construction Industry Scheme, and the odd light-heared story - notably the Office of Government Commerce's unusual choice of a new logo.

But, even in the current house building crisis, are people really that interested in buying flat pack houses from Argos?

The stories, in order of popularity, are:

• David McLean in administration, contracting to close
• Digger driver jailed for manslaughter
• Argos launches £13,000 flat pack house
• Work stops on Olympic Stadium
• OGC embarrassment at new logo
• Taylor Wimpey faces new bank deadline of 1 January
• Man arrested for manslaughter after death on Skanska site
• Taylor Wimpey to close 13 offices, hundreds of jobs cut
• Construction Industry Scheme - what you really need to know
• Recession here for two years