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English-only safety tests mooted
The board of the Construction Skills Certification Scheme is considering plans to make migrant workers take its health and safety test in English.
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NewsView from the rooftop
Andrew Mellor, PRP Architects’ green guru, is confident we can build zero-carbon homes. But if we are going to put up 8 million of them, there might be a few issues to iron out along the way …
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Architects look abroad as staffing crisis deepens
Survey shows growing number of unfilled posts and recruitment bills as high as £700,000
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NewsAPC Trainer: Can you avoid conflict? (A015)
Our APC experts show you how to tackle those difficult questions
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CommentYou can’t always get what you want
Here’s the story of a PFI scheme that caught fire. And it’s the story of how the parties then strained to construe their contracts in the most favourable way. Some were not successful
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CommentThe price of intransigence
Mediation can be used as a ploy to cut down on costs at a later trial. But if a party is suspected of playing along with no intention of compromising, everyone can end up losing a lot of money
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Challenging times
There will be a lot of legal change this year, with major revisions to immigration law, more stringent health and safety regs and a move to increase new homes’ energy efficiency
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FeaturesBAA the economy class client
BAA was the client that revolutionised construction to deliver Heathrow Terminal 5 on time and budget, but the cultural change that has followed its takeover by Spanish contractor Ferrovial has left many observers wondering whether that revolution is now over.
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CommentTop 25 architect websites: Flash blindness
Do you glaze over every time you have to navigate through endless animations on architects’ websites? Well, you’re not alone, says website expert Martin Hornagold
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Orders holding up
Despite the pessimism all around, most contractors have strong order books and there are few reports of projects being cancelled or delayed. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon reports
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FeaturesAbsolutely Fabio
Fabio Capello picks his first England team on Wednesday, and although he wouldn’t share his thoughts on selection with Building, there’s an Irish bricklayer who looks just like him – and he was happy to tell Katie Puckett what he thinks of Frank Lampard …
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CommentHansom Eye candy
This week, why the Candy brothers’ £1bn Fitzrovia scheme is a no-no, subcontractors are put in their place and sex, politics and housing policy become strangely conjoined
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FeaturesPilot project
BAA used Terminal 5 to test-fly a number of exciting, but highly experimental practices. As Thomas Lane discovers, they all took off – then suffered very different fates
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Constructing Excellence
The Phoenix isn’t always this busy on a Tuesday night in January, apparently. Despite the markets going into freefall a few hours earlier, every chair and table in the room is taken and it’s standing room only at the bar.
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CommentThat was then, this is now
So once the project team have finished sighing with relief, no doubt their chests will swell with pride: Terminal 5 has come in on time and to budget.
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McCarthy & Stone reports strong results after takeover
Retirement home builder McCarthy & Stone has announced bullish first figures since its £1.1bn acquisition by a private equity group in September 2006.
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Sharewatch — One man’s scam wrongfoots US stock exchange
Jérôme Kerviel, the 31-year-old French derivatives trader who cost Société Générale £7bn, was the new name on people’s lips last week.
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Connaught claims £370m of new work in January
Social housing contractor Connaught has made a strong start in 2008 with £370m of new work in January.