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CommentPass the parcel
When partnering was introduced, contractors tended to get landed with most of a project’s risk. In these days of high demand, they’re trying to pass it back to clients. But is that a good strategy?
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NewsWillmott Dixon aims for £750m turnover by 2012
Ambitious contractor aims to increase turnover 50% to £750m over the next three to five years
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NewsHousebuilders warned not to rely on buy-to-let investors
Property consultant Hometrack tells HBF that returns on residential property are falling
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NewsBovis Lend Lease poaches top Skanska executive
Appointment of Nick Pollard is latest in a string of boardroom changes at UK business
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NewsBovis Lend Lease poaches top Skanska executive
Appointment of Nick Pollard is latest in a string of boardroom changes at UK business
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NewsMackenzie project manager on Aurora building
Also: Davis Langdon QS on Birmingham regeneration scheme
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Client questions BREEAM rating
Programme manager claims there are cracks in the green rating system and calls for a review of BREEAM
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FeaturesSustainability — Embodied carbon
Your client’s low-energy building has a wind turbine and photovoltaics, the insulation uses sheep’s wool and there’s no PVC.But just how much carbon has been used in assembling the building – and should we worry? Davis Langdon report on an initiative to rate the embodied carbon of buildings.
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Government takes aim at local housebuilding bans
Housing minister indicates that she will push through development despite local moratoriums
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NewsHow Erinaceous was stopped in its tracks
As many of its constituent QSs and architects prepare to buy their way out of the stricken property services group, David Parsley considers the future of the company that grew from nowhere to the verge of the FTSE 250, only for its addiction to acquisition to bring it to the ...
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NewsDarling ‘risks squandering billions’
The government has been warned that it risks squandering billions of pounds of investment in schools and hospitals unless it sets out a spending timetable.
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NewsWho will win Le Crunch tomorrow night?
Predict the correct score and win an England Rugby shirt
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NewsConstruction start-ups rise by a third
Barclays research finds young people are responsible for rising figures
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NewsJohn Quinlan Terry fined £25,000 over demolition
Architect allows demolition of two Grade II listed buildings in Regents Park
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CommentA bit of a liability
Following a judgment in which the defendants were ordered to reveal their liability insurance cover to the claimant, expect such requests to become commonplace in large claims
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NewsWillmott Dixon aims for £750m turnover by 2012
Ambitious contractor aims to increase turnover 50% to £750m over the next three to five years
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Davis Langdon replaced by EC Harris on City flagship
Consultant brought in to replace rival on Bishopsgate Goods Yard regeneration project
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Training centre to be demolished
The ability of London to train workers to build the 2012 Olympic venues is under threat after it emerged a key training facility is to be demolished to make way for a secondary school.