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NewsGalliford Try wins place on Yorkshire Water framework
Contractor in joint venture with Aecom secures first two schemes on water upgrade framework
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CommentDid the spending review kill off PFI?
The chancellor described PFI as ’flawed’ last week, but it hasn’t fallen out of favour for all sectors - at least not yet…
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CommentHas government really made an 'investment in the future'?
Osborne made commitments to invest in key areas but capital budgets have still been hit
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NewsGovernment demands 40% cuts from current school projects
Construction supply chains told to slash cost of 600 schools and academies in latest blow for sector
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CommentSpending review: What’s the damage?
We now have certainty and the knowledge that government plans to invest
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CommentHow I learned to love part L
The Building Regulations - it hardly needs saying - must be greeted with fear and loathing. But oddly, says Gus Alexander, they can instil a feeling approximating joy - if only for 10 seconds
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NewsAthletes’ village delivery director leaves Bovis
Bovis Lend Lease’s delivery director for the 2012 athletes’ village has become the latest high-profile figure to leave the company
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NewsMace’s Shard project director departs
Tim Goldby left the company several weeks ago, and Gareth Lewis has taken over
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CommentThe RICS: Are we being served?
Open mike: QSs have little in common with estate agents yet we share the same professional body. We have to break free and form an organisation that truly represents us
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News‘Write off Nakheel bonds’ ACE chief urges consultants
UK firms warned that Dubai developer may not be able to meet five-year repayment plan
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NewsAbramovich’s secret nightclub is taken to the cleaners
Work stops on venue underneath Chelsea FC’s stadium after cleaners cause flood
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Comment
Inbox: Intelligence briefing
Three readers watch the state, another takes surveillance photos and a fifth tries to decipher Building
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NewsHousing starts down 9% as double-dip evidence grows
Autumn fails to deliver its customary cheer for housing sales, with starts down nearly 1,000
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Kinetics
Venues: The Gherkin, the Boleyn pub and the Riverside Chinese restaurant Topics: Corporate hospitality, Glen Medeiros, the fall of Connaught, Ian Dury Drinks: One bottle of La Cote Blanche Sancerre 2009, one gin and tonic, 15 pints of Guinness, 14 bottles of lager
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NewsGlobal shake-up puts London at head of Aedas expansion
Architect restructures European and Asian businesses to improve international presence
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CommentPre-action disclosure in arbitration: Travelers Insurance vs Countrywide Surveyors
This case hinged on whether the court could order documents to be disclosed when the parties were subject to an arbitration agreement
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CommentOsborne establishes his green credentials
It’s a pleasant surprise to see the government backing the low-carbon agenda
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NewsTwo workers killed after wall collapses
The two were killed while working on a barn conversion in Suffolk
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CommentHansom : The bestiary
Strange creatures stalk the diary page this week, including a giraffe on a desert island, a disorganised German organisation and a construction professional who made all the girls swoon
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NewsThe use of force: Building information modelling
Building information modelling may make everything better, but most firms don’t want to use it. But that might change now the government plans to make it compulsory on all public projects. Stephen Kennett reports