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Ove Arup sued over motor garage cracked floor
Engineer accused of negligence after cracks appeared in ground slab causing over £700k of damage
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NewsDanger man
Thanks to Youy Wong for taking his camera to work and snapping these pictures of a “window cleaner perched on top of the sloping roof without hard hat, harness or any safety equipment. Tut-tut”.
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FeaturesHow to make your fortune quantity surveying
With skilled staff in short supply, QS firms are jostling to offer the most attractive corporate structures to their employees. From traditional partnerships to limited companies, Mark Leftly runs through the risks of each model and weighs these against their potential to make you a packet
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FeaturesShould I stay or should I go?
There’s a lot of talk in the construction industry about opportunities to work abroad, from the allure of building Dubai’s dazzling skyscrapers to the chance to help people in countries ravaged by war or natural disaster. But what is the reality of working in foreign countries, and how does it ...
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CommentReinwood vs Brown: Why their lordships were right
The latest House of Lords decision to spell out the rights and wrongs of the Construction Act, and the JCT, was based on sound commercial logic
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FeaturesPeter Bonfield: The BRE's speed merchant
Peter Bonfield is a man in a hurry, whether he’s pedalling furiously on his 36-mile round trip to work or plotting grandiose five-year plans. The question is, can BRE keep up with its energetic leader? Thomas Lane went to find out
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FeaturesWhitelee wind farm: Putting the wind up
You might think the biggest difficulty in building a wind farm would be the wind itself, but on the moor outside Glasgow the rain, snow and liquid peat are just as bad. Thomas Lane donned his souwester to take a look at the construction of Europe’s largest onshore wind farm.
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FeaturesCSTT Training Day: So who knows what a QS is?
The Chartered Surveyors Training Trust is fighting to survive with new government funding cuts
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NewsGleeds wins contract on Foster + Partners' resort
Consultant will cost manage the £100m scheme at Corniche Bay in Mauritius
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CommentLearn as you go
The construction and built environment diploma is to be launched this September, and the industry is working well with colleges to expand its reach. But how do we make sure it succeeds?
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NewsKeith Miller adamant family dispute has been resolved
Chief executive optimistic after Bank of Scotland helps buy out rebel Miller Group shareholders
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NewsPlanning applications: March 2008
Number of new homes at detailed planning stage falls 43% in March, with the North hardest hit
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CommentSurvival of the fittest
At the start of the year we carried a comment piece from David Pretty, the former Barratt chief executive, detailing two scenarios that housebuilders would have in place in the run-up to the spring selling season.
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CommentWeb watch - Jury service
Manchester’s Civil Justice Centre may have found favour with Building’s eminent panel of judges, but the verdict went in favour of Kingsdale School in our web poll, reports Katie Puckett
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NewsPrison contractors face penal damages for delay
Government to hit firms for cost of housing prisoners in police cells if schemes are late
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Government steps in to overhaul BSF programme
Revised timetable will tie £45bn school building programme in with wider regeneration projects
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Non-compliance with pre-action protocol: Orange Personal Communications Services vs Hoare Lee
This judgment arose out of an application by the remaining defendant in the claim, for a stay of the proceedings pending the implementation of the process laid down by the pre-action protocol for construction and engineering disputes.The claimant engaged Kier Regional Ltd to carry out the fitting out works to ...
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NewsOpen sesame
Increasing density in our towns and cities is a more sustainable option than building new towns full of eco homes. But unlocking the funds that make this approach possible is not easy, says Jon Rouse
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NewsWates plans first acquisitions in 110 years
The Wates Group is planning to make its first major acquisitions in order to hit a £2bn turnover target by 2012, according to its chairman and chief executive, writes Tom Bill.
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Consultant offered £500,000 if eco-town bid succeeds
Developers desperate to win one of Gordon Brown’s 10 eco-towns are offering planning consultancies up to £500,000 in no-win, no-fee deals.