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Huge Canary Wharf towers plan OK’d
Glenn Howells scheme to include 900 homes in six blocks up to 38 storeys high
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Freedom day in shackles
With responsibility for risk assessment shifting from government to employers, firms have a lot on their shoulders
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Boss of bid target Keepmoat admits sale of business is being considered by private equity owners
Housebuilder believed to be subject of bid from Kier Living buyer with firm also mulling float on stock exchange
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Planning reforms: the radical ideas that may now never happen
Last month’s by-election defeat saw Tory fears about the political impact of widespread planning reforms become a reality. The government now has little choice other than to water them down
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Arconic investors given all clear by US court to take legal action after Grenfell fire
Shareholders claim firm knew its cladding was dangerous but used it on high rise projects anyway
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HS2 having ‘no material impact’ on products cost and shortages, minister says
Andrew Stephenson insists scheme not causing supplies to run low on other jobs
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Supreme clarity on liquidated damages
Accrual of liquidated damages ends on termination of the contract, the Supreme Court has ruled
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Kier’s Andrew Davies: ‘Don’t bleat, just fix your own problems’
Two years after he took on a troubled Kier, Andrew Davies gives his first interview about how he got the business to where it is today
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Improve building ventilation or risk them becoming breeding grounds for more infections, senior engineers warn
Report was commissioned by government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance
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Worries over materials shortages take gloss off improving confidence for architects
Practices say isssue now delaying jobs, as optimism among firms in capital tops pre-pandemic level for first time
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Construction vacancies at near 20-year high as demand for labour intensifies
ONS data reveals extent of skills shortage with 33,000 jobs on offer in the sector
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Workers in East Midlands picking up nearly £1k a week
Roofers, bricklayers and shopfitters see biggest pay rises in June
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Hammersmith Bridge to reopen to pedestrians this weekend
Mott MacDonald report found safety risk was ”acceptably low” after temporary fix to prevent cracking
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Sustainability: Calculating social value
Alinea and Social Value Portal explore how social value can be deliver and calculated, with examples of how it can work in practice
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5 minutes with … Matt Voyce at Quintain
Quintain’s executive construction director says structural engineers are the unsung heroes of the sector and reveals his love of coffee, chocolate and cycling
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Collaboration is the key to social value
To identify opportunities to enrich local people and places, we must look outside the construction chain, says Adam Crossley
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Let’s switch ‘working from home’ to ‘working near home’
We don’t have to make a binary choice between the old commute and working in isolation, there is a third way says Matt Driscoll
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Construction industry gossip: Acropolis now
Cold War bunkers, the embarrassing largesse of HS2, a brutally cutting cabbie… and is that a Greek temple on the A14?
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Staff at collapsed Welsh contractor mull legal action over lost redundancy pay
Firm sank last week with the loss of more than 140 jobs
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HS2’s eastern leg ‘not needed’, says West Midlands mayor
Andy Street said the business case for connecting Midlands towns was ‘substantially better’ than for HS2