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CommentThe new PR
Blogs are used increasingly by companies to find out what their customers are thinking. So why not log on to Building’s new sustainability channel and give Phil Clark a piece of your mind?
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CommentThat’s better – but not by much
The RIBA standard form has been revised and two particularly irksome clauses have been amended. But don’t go overboard. It is still biased in favour of architects. ‘Go bespoke’ seems to be the message
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NewsErinaceous founders resign with £736,000 pay-off
Shareholder Fursa withdraws request for extraordinary meeting after Bellis and Cummings quit
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NewsKeith Miller: Family row has ‘damaged the business’
Chief executive hits back at cousin James’ plan to sell 60% stake to outside investors
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NewsHill appoints new vice president
Steven DiBartolo will work at the firm’s project management group in New Jersey
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Ridge wins Cossham Hospital contract
Consultant cost manager on conversion and upgrade of listed Bristol hospital
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NewsCyril Sweett appoints new director
Nick Woollacott joins consultant as non-executive director with immediate effect
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NewsKeith Miller: Family row has ‘damaged the business’
Chief executive hits back at cousin James’ plan to sell 60% stake to outside investors
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ROK Build Ltd vs Harris Wharf Development Company Ltd
The claimant was constructing a primary school and twenty four 1-3 bedroom flats for Harris Wharf. The contract was the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract, With Contractor’s Design 1998 Edition.Practical Completion occurred on 12 July 2005, and the professional advisers met in April 2006 in order to discuss the ...
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NewsSustainable housing products
The way you build a home goes half way to making it sustainable. The other half is its M&E and water harvesting. Alex Smith looks at how the homes in the BRE innovation park used new technology to tackle both
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NewsBedzed's baby: Zedfactory housing in Andover
Green architect Zedfactory has designed a housing development in Andover that takes the Bedzed principles and shows how they can be paid for
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CommentNever mind the ethics, look at the price
It’s an open secret that stone products imported from the third world are often made using child labour. So why doesn’t anybody do anything about it? Greg Verhoef has an explanation …
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CommentTime wasters
One thing a legal dispute is good for is kicking a claim for payment into the long grass, which means all the time spent being fair to both parties is very unfair to the one that wants its money
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Galliford Try enters Tyneside with £9m Kendall Cross buy
Housebuilder continues to grow, with the help of a tough market and new taxation rules
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Greater powers for homes agency
The government is to grant the Homes and Communities Agency, its new housing and regeneration quango, the planning powers of a local authority, it became clear this week.
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More gloom as CPA cuts 2008 forecast
The Construction Products Association has warned that the anticipated slowdown in construction next year will be greater than expected, as the impact of the credit crunch worsens.
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NewsArup to design world’s first ‘solar city’ in Arizona
Mixed-use development for 300,000 inhabitants will rely on the sun for all daytime energy
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NewsLondon Transport Museum reopens
The £22.4m refurbishment project of Covent Garden venue is complete
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Costain names Allvey as next chairman
The engingeering and construction group's deputy chairman will take over from David Jeffries from January 1