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NewsGammon wins £150m Hong Kong campus contract
Balfour Beatty has 50% stake in Gammon which starts work on Centennial Campus this month
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NewsPower station strikes staved off by engineering pay deal
Unions say dispute ‘can now be settled’, but employers warn pay rises in downturn may lead to job cuts
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NewsJibbing and tacking with Captain Jack
'Stripped-down finely honed racing machine, built for power and speed': Joey Gardiner joins Jack Pringle on his yacht at Little Britain
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NewsSkanska appoints new UK boss
Former executive vice president of civil engineering and building Mike Putman will take over on 1 October
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NewsLDA to scrap £100m of work to make up for accounting failure
London Development Agency forced to make cuts after it did not properly account for costs of relocating landowners of Olympic park
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NewsArchitect pleads for political asylum … from Italy
Mario Cucinella writes to G8 leaders for help to ‘escape’ homeland’s stifling bureaucracy
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NewsMiller optimistic despite losing £34m in six months
Scottish housebuilder also reported 9% fall in turnover, but chief executive says worst of crisis is over
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Comment
Jibbing and tacking with Captain Jack
Standing on the Cowes quayside at 7.30 am, trying to force a bacon sandwich down into a queasy stomach less than six hours after you had your last rum and coke, is, I am learning, a quintessential Little Britain experience. As is not knowing whether the gentle rocking motion you're ...
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NewsHe’s the king of the castle
Kevin Power snapped this steely-nerved handyman, from his home office in Youghal, Co Cork. Perhaps the man is some sort of lookout for the building
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CommentSize does matter
After helpful research by Cabe found that new homes were too small, we may finally be able to re-address the poor design that has been carried out across the UK – and yes, by all of us
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Comment
An unprovoked attack
Rudi Klein’s ungracious and misplaced attack on the JCT contract forms (24 July, page 45) merits a reply
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Comment
Parry and riposte
I don’t know if Graham de Roy (7 August, page 29) is spoiling for a fight, but he seems to have taken a highly selective view of my article (24 July, page 48) on latent defects insurance (LDI)
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Comment
Weighty matter
JT Emanuel (28 August, page 28) has only part of the story when he suggests the consultation over parts L and F of the Building Regulations is 800 pages
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Comment
The other offsetting
I must disagree with Rachel Barnes’ piece (10 July, page 49) about architect–client agreement forms
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CommentRepugnant behaviour
A recent case has shown that the more serious a breach of contract, the less likely it is that a court will accept an exclusion of liability clause
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CommentBook review: Last-minute booking
Forget chick lit – the best summer reads address building procurement and the JCT contract. And, gratifyingly, the authors come up with exactly the right conclusions
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Getting there: Revision to JCT contracts
The latest revision to the JCT contracts is a step in the right direction, but doesn’t go far enough to enforce the OGC’s Achieving Excellence in Construction aims
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NewsLiving with eco-towns: The hard sell
The idea of eco-towns has never been exactly popular with neighbouring communities. So now that the four sites have been chosen, how is the government going to convince the locals to buy into its low-carbon dream?