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Advance payment bonds: Another bond story
On-demand bonds to protect advance payments are a really good idea, but a recent case shows that you have to give the courts as little room for interpretation as possible
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NewsDealing with dragons
I was interested to note that it has been considered normal for a deal in China to include a large proportion of consideration (up to 100%) paid in advance (17 September, page 44)
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CommentHansom: Everything in its place
Sticklers for detail are thick on the ground this week: billionaire property owners insisting their wires are not crossed, the company that won’t be called a contractor and a ferocious fight for a full stop
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Coalition abandons academies framework renewal
The government has scrapped a retendering process for its academies project management framework amid continuing uncertainty over the future of schools procurement
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NewsCivic service
English Cities and Cartwright Pickard Architects’ Wakefield civic offices development has started on site. The 123,000ft2 scheme will provide accommodation for more than 1,200 council employees and has achieved BREEAM “excellent” status. It is being built by Morgan Sindall.
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NewsWYG runs the rule over acquisitions in SE Asia
Engineer looks at deals in emerging markets as part of six-year recovery plan
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NewsBalfour Beatty names five divisional chief executives
Balfour Beatty has created five new divisional chief executives following the restructuring of its business in the summer.The five will all report to chief operating officer Andrew McNaughton (pictured). They are:Mike Peasland, chief executive of Construction Services UK, responsible for civil engineering, ground engineering and MansellGeorge Pierson, chief executive of ...
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FeaturesCost model: Part L for residential
Housing developers face some interesting choices when complying with the new Part L. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon and Tom Lelyveld of Aecom consider some of the options
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NewsCITB hatches post-privatisation survival plan
CITB-ConstructionSkills is drafting survival plans after a leaked government list revealed that the industry training body might be privatised, writes David Matthews.
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HCA about to reveal new boss
The government is poised to announce a new chief executive for housing quango the Homes and Communities Agency as early as today.
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Morgan Sindall secures 42 of Connaught social housing jobs
Morgan Sindall has said 42 of Connaught’s estimated 100 social housing deals have been transferred to the company since it bought it for £28m this month.
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NewsRoyal green: 2010 Sustainability Awards
Shortlist for the awards include Arup’s Harlequin 1 and the Miller Zero development by Frazer Brown Mackenna
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FeaturesAfter Kieron: Campaigning for better site safety
Monday 9 August 2004 is a date Jennifer Deeney will never forget. It was when her husband Kieron died in an accident on a construction site - 13 weeks after they were married. Since then she’s been campaigning for better site safety - and a calendar of naked women ...
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FeaturesThe master strategy: Can a QS be a management consultants
Davis Langdon wants to compete with McKinsey. But can it really find a place at the top table of global management consultancies? And will the rest of the quantity surveying industry follow it
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CommentWhat the pooping man told us
Engineers’ wizardry is beyond question, but they still suffer from a cultural cringe when it comes to the question of creativity. Luckily, Chris Wise met someone who explained the whole thing
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Government spending cuts ‘had an impact’ on Archial collapse
The cancellation of government building programmes had a direct impact on the collapse of top-10 UK architect Archial, the rescued firm’s chief executive said this week.Chris Littlemore said the firm had a number of schools, academies and custodial projects cut or frozen in the past six months which “certainly had ...
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NewsPassivhaus goes to school
Hadlow college in Kent is the first educational building in Britain to meet the stringent demands of the German low-energy standard
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NewsDesigns on Dundee: Six proposals for the V&A
Six designs have been shortlisted for the proposed £47m V&A Dundee museum
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NewsRender for timber frames
Reinforced render finish systems from Weber have been used on a number of new-build and refurbished schools for Aberdeen council
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Movers and makers - 01 October 2010
Latest news from the world of construction product manufacture