All articles by Chloë McCulloch – Page 30
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FeaturesThe £6 House
If you think John Prescott’s £60,000 house was a tall order, how would you cope with a budget of £6? Not too badly, if the efforts of the three teams who attended Building’s housebuilding competition in London are anything to go by.
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PFIs to lose junk food revenue
Lawyers are warning that support services companies may be required to renegotiate the catering elements of PFI school contracts after the government announced plans to ban vending machines selling crisps and chocolate
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Pearce Construction sues engineer WSP for £2.5m
Contractor brings High Court writ saying WSP failed to identify electrical defects in luxury London apartments
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Court battle adds to Jarvis’ woes
Jarvis, the heavily indebted support services company, received more bad news this week after it was ordered by the Technology and Construction Court to pay £800,000 to an Indian rail engineer
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Staff gain right to quiz bosses over business plans
Lawyers warn of £75,000 fines if firms fail to comply with the Information and Consultation Regulations
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Freedom of Information Act set to expose bid rigging
Clients and contractors may be obliged to divulge tendering data that could leave them open to legal challenges
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Interview: Rupert Jackson
Just three months into the job, the judge in charge of the Technology and Construction Court has already established a reformist agenda.
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FeaturesTricky business
In the fourth of five monthly articles, Building, in association with ConstructionSkills, investigates why construction operates so inefficiently – and asks what can be done to improve performance.
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FeaturesThe industry that time forgot
In the third of five monthly articles in association with ConstructionSkills, Building looks at how construction recruitment and training is being dragged into the 21st century.
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FeaturesA rare site
It’s assumed that site workers spend more time wolf-whistling than learning skills. But the UK’s biggest single training effort aims to change all that. In the second of five monthly articles in association with ConstructionSkills, Building looks at how the industry will attempt to qualify 500,000 workers in the next ...
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FeaturesSkilled solution
ConstructionSkills is launching a drive to tackle the skills crisis. The initiative – Action for Skills – aims to kick-start a debate among employers on training. In the first of five monthly articles, Building, in association with ConstructionSkills, looks at what's gone wrong and how it can be fixed.
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Interserve wins £28m health job
Support services group Interserve has been selected for a £28m mental health scheme in south-east London, as part of the Procure 21 hospital building programme
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UK directors' buyout rescues HLM from receivers
British architect is bought back as it goes into administrative receivership, two years after it was sold to US firm
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NewsRICS faces financial crisis if fee hike challenge succeeds
Rebel QS's plan for judicial review of fee increase may result in '£2m shortfall' in institution's 2004 budget