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NewsSocial housing plans face a £2.5bn shortfall
Pricewaterhouse Coopers says funding has failed to keep pace with development targets
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NewsAngel of the North marks birthday with spectacular light show
Antony Gormley is illuminated for the first time in years to celebrate its 10th anniversary
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NewsNow audit office to probe BSF
Parliament’s spending watchdog is to carry out an investigation into the £45bn Building Schools for the Future programme.
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NewsPinnacle contractor admits delays
Demolition on the site of the 300m Pinnacle tower in the City has been delayed by at least two months amid continuing legal wranglings.The work by subcontractor Keltbray was due to end in February, but will now continue while enabling works, which have also been put back, begin in April. ...
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Roll-out of apprentice scheme gets under way
At least 10 big projects, including £311m PFI hospital and £250m Tyne tunnel, pencilled in
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NewsSo what if it’s raining?
Housebuilders need to look beyond the dismal economic weather and make arrangements for the future if they are to deliver 3 million zero-carbon, cost-effective homes by 2020.
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NewsOne of Gaudí’s little jokes …
Thanks to Keith Fuell who took this photo of a worker at the great architect’s Casa Casa Batlló in Barcelona.
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Skanska profit hit by problem jobs
Skanska will change its risk policy in the UK after three problematic PFI projects hit its bottom line in 2007.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for London Projects, Bovis Lend Lease
“What’s the only football team in the country whose name you can’t colour in?” asks ops director Simon. We ponder this for a while. “In either upper or lower case,” he adds helpfully.
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NewsThe housebuilder’s plan McCarthy & Stone
In the first of a series of company profiles, Jon Neale opens the door on the UK’s biggest retirement homes specialist
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Know your limits
Shy Jackson (25 January, page 60) refers to the government’s renewed interest in the Law Commission proposals on reform of the law of time limitation.
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Whose risk is it?
In his legal column, James Bessey (25 January, page 59) tells us “there was a first and second layer of insurers. The first paid out, but the second reserved its position”. If the court has established liability, on what grounds can an insurer refuse to pay?
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For the love of it
With the long hours, job insecurity, capricious clients, and the quality of work life resulting from shoestring budgets (not to mention low pay) isn't it amazing anyone stays in this game (“Architects look abroad as staffing crisis deepens”, 1 February, page 15)?
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FeaturesThe house with four gardens
Each window of David Mikhail’s latest house overlooks a landscape with its own unique character
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Lead times November 2007-February 2008
For the first time since the construction boom began, lead times seem to be returning to normal, says Brian Moone of Mace.
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CommentBeware what you wish for
An entire agreement clause proclaims that everything the parties have agreed is in the contract in front of them. But don’t forget that essential legal rule …