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CommentAdjudication: Having the last word
Don’t confuse adjudication and litigation. Judges don’t have to put up with as much chaos as the typical adjudicator
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FeaturesCareers: Is Qatar your next destination?
Qatar is an oil-rich country that plans to spend 40% of its budget improving infrastructure between now and 2016. Can you afford to leave it off your CV?
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CommentFifty shades of liability contract
A dispute about the extent of liability for a fire at a popcorn factory was largely to do with the terms of the contract - just like Fifty Shades of Grey
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CommentThe 'conservatory tax' is dead. Long live consequential improvements
Ministers should ignore ‘conservatory tax’ media hysteria and press on with consequential improvements, says Andrew Warren
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NewsFive architects vie for RIBA housing gong
Duggan Morris Architects and Found Associates among those shortlisted for RIBA’s Manser Medal
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NewsMace picked for role on £100m Design Museum
Contractor confirmed as construction manager on first phase of conversion of former Commonwealth Institute building
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NewsGreen light for controversial £8bn Earl's Court scheme
Hammersmith & Fulham council grants outline permission to Terry Farrell scheme
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NewsGalliford Try announces £41m worth of wins
Firm picked for £23m Grainger scheme in London and £18m refurb of Birmingham’s NIA
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NewsKier reports £70m profit after resilient performance
Paul Sheffield says strong construction margins of 2.5% due to firm avoiding ‘ultra competitive bidding’
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FeaturesBerkeley's Rob Perrins: Out of the shadows
In the three years since he replaced Tony Pidgley as Berkeley’s managing director, Rob Perrins has convinced the City that he is very much his own man
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NewsSir Robert McAlpine bags £50m prime housing job
Exclusive: Contractor wins job to build prime residential scheme in west London for Native Land and Grosvenor
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NewsBerkeley boss Perrins defends £290m incentive scheme
Managing director insists that long-term incentive plan will require ‘exceptional performance’ from board
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NewsMorgan Sindall restructures senior team to cut costs
Exclusive: Two managing directors in construction business leave, while firm extends payment terms for suppliers
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CommentIs the UK rapidly building up a future construction skills gap? Probably
Figures indicating how much the pool of labour has shrunk are disturbing
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FeaturesIs localism dead and buried?
Last week’s housing and planning reforms suggest the government has given up on localism to build the homes we need
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NewsOlympic legacy boss leaves post
Daniel Moylan, London Legacy Development Corporation chair, leaves post to take up new aviation role for Boris Johnson
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CommentWonders & blunders with Linda Morey Smith
Linda Morey Smith loves London’s Victorian palace for dinosaurs, but is less keen on what’s happened to the Elephant
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NewsHinkley nuclear project in £64m planning deal
EDF Energy moves one step closer to realising power plant
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NewsConstruction workforce drops below two million
Sector loses 199,000 jobs in two years, dropping to its lowest level in ten years