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Planning levy won’t cover infrastructure bill
Treasury proposals for a development levy would not benefit the government financially but would hit smaller developers, a coalition of business and property groups will warn chancellor Gordon Brown next week.
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CommentCertifiable adjudicators
Like the umpires in last month’s ill-fated test match, adjudicators test the dispute against the rules and make a judgment – unfortunately some construction folk, and one or two lawyers, haven’t quite grasped that they can’t tamper with the ball either …
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RIBA reveals five shortlists for Special Awards
Fielden Clegg Bradley and Richard Rogers go head to head for sustainability award
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NewsBovis and Costain part company with senior staff
Bovis' commercial director and the managing director of Costain's building division depart
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NewsWilkinson Eyre to design £400m BBC Salford centre
Stirling prize-winning architect lands commission for four buildings in £400m media village
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NewsBalfour nuclear workers strike
M&E workers on a nuclear power project in the west of Scotland have launched a series of weekly strikes after contractor Balfour Kilpatrick cut their wages.
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Amec’s losses on A13 road contract put at £9m
… but it is confident of recovering £7m in bid costs on £167m Colchester hospital PFI
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Oops, what happened to Tony Bingham's article this week?
For those of you who spotted the mistake on page 68 in this Friday's edition of the magazine and are curious to have sight of the full text read on ...
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NewsDesigners learn the lessons of 9/11
Improved safety guidelines for tall buildings have been revealed on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York
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FeaturesOpen doors and open minds
British Land is happy to work with unknown contractors and architects – so long as they can meet one or two non-negotiable demands. Emily Wright asks development director Nigel Webb what they are
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CommentBe hands-on
Trade bodies can only do so much without their members’ input. To get real value out of them, industry leaders must get involved and drive the agenda forward
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CommentAn actor’s life
Garvis Snook takes to the stage with his all-singing, all-dancing troupe of Rok staff, while property developers pretend to know about wine and Ken Yeang reveals a movie-star influence
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NewsIkea ditched by flatpack housing partner
A housing association that pioneers innovative construction techniques has pulled out of a deal with Ikea to develop its range of prefabricated homes.
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Housing stats — Top housing planning applications: August 2006
Despite the South-east’s dominance, Pennine Housing 2000 emerged as by far the biggest housing client last month
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No help at all
My company has taken on an apprentice in order to put something back into the industry and has done all the right things – enrolled him at college, contacted the Building and Allied Trades Joint Industrial Council about an apprenticeship and contacted
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CommentGuilt by association
The rules of bias can apply differently to arbitrators and judges. But if you are hoping to use apparent conflicts of interest within a practice to dodge a decision, beware of looking opportunistic
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Leave it to the professionals
Simon Rawlinson’s excellent article on construction management (1 September, page 62) will hopefully dispel any myths surrounding the CM route.The key to the successful use of CM is ensuring clients use only experienced, specialist CM organisations that have the culture, systems, people and skills to make it work and operate ...
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Evidence of life
I appreciate that there are many diverse roles within the property/construction industry, but as a chartered building surveyor with an MRICS professional qualification and a BSc degree, it’s really nice to know from your latest annual salary guide that I don’t exist