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NewsCarillion wins £100m of work in Oman
Contractor grabs both construction and facilities management jobs
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NewsInfrastructure body sets date for making application decisions
Director of Infrastructure Planning Commission says it will make decisions from June 2011 despite being abolished the following year
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NewsCareers Now live online today
Free online event, aimed at all construction professionals from graduates to management, is live today
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CommentWill I win?: Early neutral evaluation
If only there were some way of finding out if you were going to win your case before you spent £200,000 on it. Well, actually, there is something rather like that …
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Heartless: The case of a builder sued for having a heart attack
A builder suffered a heart attack during a job and could not finish the work. When his client sued him, the case turned on the rarely seen defence of frustration
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Collaborative law: A new use for lawyers
US family lawyers have devised a dispute resolution method - collaborative law - that rethinks the roles played by clients’ legal advisers. Now it’s being used in commercial disputes
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CommentStandardised prequalification form: Save while you slave
The coalition has a bright idea to save you billions of pounds on procurement. It’s a form called PAS91 and it’ll only take a couple of weeks to fill in…
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Short and tweet: Julian Hakes
The architect juggles his career as an architect and an emerging shoe designer
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CommentMy digital life: Darren Shirley
“What’s on your iPod?” iPod, get with it daddy-O. iPods are for luddites
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NewsGreen Deal to force landlords to upgrade homes
Tenant could have right to demand that landlords make energy efficiency improvements from 2015 onwards
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NewsWilmott Dixon wins £25m Middlesbrough school contract
Oakfields Community College in Acklam is among £47m of recent schools contracts won by contractotr
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Housing stats in October: Residential projects and approvals
A £400m project took Tottenham Hotspur to the top of at least one league this month
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NewsImages of the Olympic beach volleyball venue
Designers release images of how the temporary stadium will appear in 2012
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NewsMoD may restart £12bn job
Government considers new proposals for St Athan training facility in Wales
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NewsBeattie leaves HCA as new chief executive takes over
Trevor Beattie leaves quango after losing out on the chief executive’s job
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CommentHansom: For one week only!
Roll up, roll up … see the strong man lift the BSF bid document using only two transit vans! See Mr Memory forget his own policies! And, of course, we have beautiful buildings … totally nude!
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FeaturesDave Sheridan: His friends in the north
A year ago Dave Sheridan suddenly found himself thrust to the top of property services group, Apollo. Once he’d got over the shock he set out on a high-risk strategy of shifting the business away from London to the northern regions
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FeaturesAmazing ONS Specs! Makes the economy look much better than it is!
According to the Office for National Statistics, 2010 was the year that construction became a powerhouse of national growth and regained all the ground it lost last year. Oh yeah? Building checks out its story, with the help of a few economists …
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NewsRoyal coup
Foster + Partners is to design its first project in Luxembourg after winning an international competition in the grand duchy
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CommentSnakes and ladders
Our sustainability targets are well within our reach. The only problem is working out which technologies will give us a leg up, and which will send us sliding back to square one