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CommentRICS survey points heavily to a return to recession
Survey indicates surveyors’ workloads are now falling
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FeaturesDoing an MBA: Ready for lift-off?
It takes time, effort and money. But doing an MBA can also help you raise your game and take both your career, and your thinking, to the next level
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NewsHyder axes 300 jobs but insists cull is now over
Finance director says staffing levels will now remain ’broadly flat’ after profit rises by two-thirds
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NewscityWATCH: Caution
The City has been understanding of the many companies that had a look - and then recoiled - at failed contractor Rok last week. Even Mears, which was the first off the mark to salivate over Rok’s remains, but then perhaps wisely decided it didn’t fancy the prospect, managed to ...
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CommentWhy we should train architects on the job
Higher education is going to become increasingly inaccessible, so why don’t we create ways of training while working
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Cluttons
Surveyors seem to have a predilection for rather shiny watering holes in west(ish) London when Building Buys a Pint. The Portman, which has removed most of its old wooden interior in favour of cream walls and rack upon rack of immaculate glassware, is no exception
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NewsTaylor Wimpey clinches £950m credit deal
A refinancing by Taylor Wimpey was the highlight among respectable interim statements to the City by three of the biggest housebuilders this week, despite a no-show from the traditional boost in autumn sales
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CommentLet’s rebuild our legal system
The fundamental truth about contract law is that those who use it don’t understand it, and so it endangers their survival. Shouldn’t the government rethink the whole thing?
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British Land reveals £1.5bn London development programme
Developer British Land has committed to a £1.5bn development programme in the London office market, it announced on Tuesday
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Styles & Wood to rebrand after turnover warning to City
Property services firm Styles & Wood has said that it will rebrand to become known as S&W, two weeks after it issued a turnover warning to the City
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CommentHansom: Hue and cry
Modern classicism shows its colours (anything you like as long as it’s white), while those who should be blushing a beautiful shade of pink include Cabe, Jarvis, and, ahem, a few of our colleagues
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CommentDifficult jurisdictions: Libya
In the first of a series on difficult jurisdictions, Chris Hill turns the focus on Libya where the opportunities are on a par with its challenges
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HSE to lose extra inspectors
The Health and Safety Executive will not renew the contracts of the 24 temporary construction safety inspectors it recruited last year when their employment ends next June
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NewsStratford scholars
Make has won planning for an education building in Stratford, London, provisionally titled the Stratford Island University Centre
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Rok administrators in last push to sell contracts
Hopes of selling whole business gone as divisions shut down and potential buyers back away
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NewsLatest construction appointments : 19 November 2010
Barratt has appointed Tom Keevil general counsel and company secretary. He joins from United Utilities where he held the same position.
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CommentQuality control
Bingham and Walker pirouette around the truth (29 October, page 52), without coming to the point, in arguing the duty a QS owes to the client in valuing work in progress under a JCT contract. JCT makes it clear that only the architect is to judge if what is being ...
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Comment
Not over yet
I enjoyed the broad-ranging discussion as a panel member of the round table on cavity walls on 7 September