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NewsGoogle’s review of £650m King’s Cross HQ ‘could take two years’
Exclusive: Project caught up in global design review of tech giant’s planned large-scale developments and is expected to be re-tendered
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NewsAecom wins key role on UK Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015
Consultant will work with creative team behind winning design, to be announced later this month
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NewsEnglish Heritage blasts ‘exceptionally damaging’ rail project
Heritage organisation claims £133m Orsdall Chord scheme will cause “substantial harm” to historical sites
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CommentEFA needs to go back to school on costs
The news that contractor Bam has been dropped from five London schools worth almost £50m, after, it is understood, claiming it could not deliver two of them without making a loss, has thrown the problem of cost inflation firmly into focus
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NewsUK and Japan strike deal for 2020 Olympics work
The UK and Japan sign a trade co-operation deal paving the way for UK firms to win work on Olympics and 2019 Rugby World Cup
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CommentHansom: A walk on the wildside
Something fishy is going on in Gibraltar and an otter takes against HS2, but birds and ready mix concrete find themselves oddly at ease with each other - plus, the future has hoverbuses but no tea breaks
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CommentWitnesses: Remember it like it was yesterday?
Judges and dispute deciders should place little reliance on what witnesses ‘recall’ happened, as our minds forget and distort events over time - however vividly we think we remember
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CommentFundamental breach: Calling time
If you think the other party to your contract has committed a fundamental breach, you better be sure before you lock the site gates behind them - as you could be committing one yourself
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CommentPanama Canal project: Troubled waters
With an estimated $1.6bn shortfall and no adequate remedy in the contract, the Panama Canal project shows that a low tender price and transferred risk don’t make for plain sailing
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FeaturesThe pressure of payment reform
The launch last week of a new payment charter adds to the legitmate pressure on contractors to pay their subbies promptly. But this pressure could also starve contractors of the cash they need to invest, push up prices, and even push some firms over the edge
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NewsGovernment enhances Green Deal incentive scheme
Households able to claim up to £7,600 in cash from revamped incentive package
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NewsGovernment commits £2bn for school building work
Department for Education commits £2bn to Priority School Building Programme over course of next parliament
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NewsRio Olympics preparations 'badly off track'
IOC vice-president says Brazil preparations are worst he’s experienced
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NewsCambridge £120m biomedical campus gets green light
The Forum will be largely fabricated offsite by Laing O’Rourke and then assembled on site
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NewsHSE looking into ‘spying’ on Crossrail
Health and Safety Executive pledges to “take action where appropriate” over concerns about Crossrail project
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CommentWe need a Garden City vision fit for the 21st century
Planners should look to the ideas behind Apple and Glastonbury rather than attempting to re-invent Letchworth
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NewsIndustry ‘remains in recovery’, cautions Mace
Firm’s cost consultancy arm warns that ‘that optimism needs to be backed up by workloads’
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NewsBam dropped from £50m London schools package
Exclusive: Disagreement over pricing sees Education Funding Agency remove five London priority schools from firm