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NewsWYG non-executive director to retire
John Richardson joined board 12 years ago and was also chair to consultant engineer’s audit committee
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NewsBalfour scoops £270m of road and rail work
Work including the £50m upgrade of Edinburgh Waverley station by 2013
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NewsBrighter outlook from forecasters, but severe risks remain
The forecasts from Hewes & Associates and Leading Edge sit interestingly against the other winter forecasts for construction output released over the past couple of weeks
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NewsThe Prater principle: Michael Prater interview
Over 60 years, Michael Prater’s family firm has grown from a one-man band to become the country’s biggest envelope specialist. As the company fights off its fourth recession, he tells Roxane McMeeken how it’s done
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NewsVertical limit
Our thanks to Xana Askew of Cassidy and Ashton Architects in Preston, who sent us these photos of urban mountaineers tackling the north face of the building next door. “I took these from my third-floor office fire escape door. Some people have no concept of vertigo … or health and ...
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CommentWigging out: Litigation costs
Litigation has become so expensive, and the courts so keen to push cases down other settlement routes, that trials may soon be reserved for only the most exceptional cases
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CommentGoing the distance: Relevant information
Here’s a tale of two sisters who got into a row with their builder, followed by five adjudications and a court case that established some useful case law
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When adjudication won’t do: Enterprise vs Tony McFadden
When a water contractor went into liquidation, it left behind a complicated set of debts and contracts, and a continuing legal struggle …
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CommentWhat price, justice?: Jackson's cost review
Lord Justice Jackson has released his recommendations for ways to reduce the cost of litigation and make the courts more accessible. And he’s done a good job, too
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FeaturesInternally grateful: Meet two construction interns
Our jilted generation of graduates can be trained, retained and ultimately employed – if firms woke up to the advantages of internship. Building met two interns and explained why Building is backing The Pledge to recruit more
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CommentAffairs to remember
A £9bn property tycoon’s brief encounter with Mace, the latest conspiracy theories over RMJM’s dalliance with Fred Goodwin and one architect’s abusive relationship with the English language
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FeaturesThe VIP list: Teenagers design a nightclub
Women in Property invited some very important guests to help design a new bar at the Matter nightclub in Greenwich
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Lessons from history
Amanda Levete says: “What we need is something like an architectural Supreme Court, made up of architects and advisers whose pre-eminence is undisputed, that passes binding judgment” (22 January, page 22)
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CommentVive la révolution!
Will Foster’s first hospital, the Circle Bath, revolutionise healthcare design (15 January, page 38)?
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Up, up and away
I would like to take issue with a recent leader, which expressed the view that rising house prices are somehow a good thing
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Planning: The campaign
I totally agree with the need to oppose changes to the planning system (Developers and housebuilders to fight Tory planning proposals, 4 January, building.co.uk)
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Experts on tap
I read Paul Donnelly’s article (15 January, page 50) on expert witness testimony with interest
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Unjust deserts
I have more sympathy with bankers’ bonuses than with the £30m paid by the Learning and Skills Council to its staff
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CommentWhy can’t we have boulangeries?
The French have mastered the art of nurturing individual shops and businesses, whereas here, civilised life is leaking out of our town centres. Gus Alexander has an idea…
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Wonders & Blunders with Geoff Capes
Shot-putter and budgie breeder Geoff Capes coos over Burghley House but has strong opinions about the childhood home of one Margaret Roberts