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Counter-cyclical investments: strategic or stupid?
Markets such as Greece are challenging but could prove very beneficial to SMEs in the long term
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My digital life … Eddie Murphy
The Mott MacDonald technical director on his family’s views of his digital habits, and why the Android Motorola Defy seems to have been built for the building services engineer market
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The new Asian tigers: Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines
Asian economies will form the world’s most dominant construction market by 2025
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Are free schools too cheap by half?
Michael Gove may want free schools to succeed but his department won’t be throwing much money their way. So are these cut-price schools up to the job or doomed to become places for kids to fail in?
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Fury at regulator’s plan to wrap retrofit work in red tape
Industry figures slam Ofgem’s plan to require two surveyors to sign off some retrofit work
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Lighting specialist enlists ex-Barclays boss
Former head of property for banking giant looks forward to “hands on” role as non-executive director of London-based firm
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Construction appointmnets: 6 September 2013
Macro, Lovell and Gerry Lytle Associates are among the companies announcing appointments and promotions
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Fit-out delays push Shard hotel launch back ‘to 2014’
Exclusive: Luxury hotel ‘unlikely’ to open fully this year as contractor after Sisk is replaced on £40m fit-out project
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Essential Berkshire: Berkshire House
Developer Essential Living unveils plans for its first office-to-residential rented housing scheme
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Fears of further delays to £600m framework
Concern comes as management of a repeatedly delayed £600m government framework for consultants is transferred to a private sector company
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Planning stats: residential projects and approvals in August 2013
Persimmon Homes is back in the top spot, while the South-east boasts the most projects in planning
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Changing how we deliver healthcare
A new, community-based model of healthcare could create the equivalent of 40 extra beds per hospital
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Two schools of thought
It’s ironic that this government is pushing for standardised designs for most schools but has a liberal approach when it comes to academies and free schools
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Good faith clauses
As Luis Suárez questions his contract with Liverpool, we look at the similarities between football and construction contracts - and what they can show us about good faith clauses
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Architects in the frame
The much-debated Museum of Liverpool judgment shows us that it can be the architect’s head on the block rather than the contractor’s
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School buildings: Do the math
The DfE has so far failed to hit its construction cost cutting targets, why?
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Matthew Cutts
Matthew Cutts is EC Harris’ global market sector leader for financial institutions
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Tony Williams
Founder and chief executive of Building Value, an independent advisory business specialising in building, real estate and support services