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CommentGreen house effect
Ruth Kelly explains how she plans to meet the environmental challenge by awarding stars to sustainable homes
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CommentReflections and predictions
Wembley remained incomplete, third-party rights grew in popularity and we awoke to the importance of sustainability last year. So what will 2007 hold?
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CommentEnd this travesty
In these topsy-turvey times subbies think they’re designers, QSs act like lawyers and architects let builders specify. Wouldn’t it be refreshing if we stuck to our job descriptions in 2007?
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Picking over the bones
A contractor paid a subcontractor £70,000 for light fittings. This should have been passed to the supplier, but the subbie went bust. So can the supplier get the contractor to pay twice?
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CommentWorlds apart
STATE YOUR CASE — Tony Bingham says arbitrators, judges and adjudicators do the same job, but the timescale of adjudication makes the process markedly different, argues Nick Henchie
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Employment lawyers to be kept busy in 2007
Construction firms are set to be hit by an increase in employment litigation in 2007 because of changes in the law including the smoking ban, age discrimination legislation and the introduction of the CIS tax scheme.
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Features‘We don’t hug trees and do Kum Ba Yah’
Murray Coleman is not a man to mince his words, as Mark Leftly found when he trailed the new Bovis Lend Lease construction boss around one of the contractor’s more problematic PFI projects
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FeaturesThe 2007 Building horoscope
Will the Olympic budget keep soaring? Will Ray O’Rourke buy when Amec sells? Will Ucatt survive against the super union? Will QSs still be interested in property? And will we still be talking about Wembley in December? Consulting a beginner’s guide to astrology, we reveal all this and more in ...
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Features‘You could run this building as a traditional school – but it would be a waste’
Building Design Partnership’s Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate is like no other school – it has a campus feel, there are no corridors and the students don’t even bunk off.
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Escaping doesn’t have to be this hard …
Ready for another year of sitting at the same desk, talking to the same people and staring out of the same window? No? Claire Dodd helps plot your bid for freedom
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Recovery set to continue after surprise slowdown
Market analysts say growth in construction output is likely after blip in first half of 2006
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Wallwork named Gleeson boss
Paul Wallwork has been confirmed as chief executive of Gleeson after steering the contractor through a restructure and reducing its debt 85%.
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Rebuff for Leeds council over PFI regeneration bid
The government has frozen a PFI scheme to regenerate a Leeds suburbs where three of the 7 July suicide bombers lived.
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Estate set to be rebuilt after poll
Plans by architect Pollard Thomas Edwards (PTE) to rebuild a council estate that is threatened by collapse have cleared a key hurdle.
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Housing Corporation cuts red tape to assist developers
The Housing Corporation has told developers that it intends to reduce the amount of red tape they will have to contend with when bidding for grants.
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Equity firms withdraw £1.5bn offer for Amec
Two private equity companies have withdrawn their £1.5bn offer for Amec after the company refused to open up its accounts to scrutiny.
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Planning rejection puts national college at risk
The future of the National Construction College has been thrown into doubt after it was refused permission to develop part of its land to raise funds.
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Bovis ordered to stop work after Manchester fatality
Bovis Lend Lease has stopped groundworks on sites throughout the country after a worker was killed by an excavator on its Barton Square project in Manchester.