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Bovis runs 12 weeks late on PFI hospital
Bovis Lend Lease has handed over the first phase of its £380m Manchester PFI hospital three months late after technical problems on site.
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Fears that schools rules will increase risk of Legionnaires’
Consultants warn that design rules that lead to the use of mechanical ventilation could endanger children’s health
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Paddington hospital a step closer
Five high-profile architects have made it on to the shortlist to redesign the controversial St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, west London.
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Costain monitors presence in Iran amid political unrest
Contractor ‘monitoring the situation’ on £950m gas project, as tensions mount between Tehran and the West
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NFB to set up lobby group to delay energy regulations
Trade body adds pressure to government, saying software to calculate Part L energy ratings is not ready
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Comment
Open Mike: Wrong turnings
David Trench, the project director on the Millennium Dome, knows from experience what happens when people stray too far from a project’s initial raison d’être
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Look to the skies
We need to forget about cheap houses and luxury riverside apartments and start building high quality high rise, says the latest column from our graduate panel
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Behind the veil
This is a murky tale of one man, three companies and a lot of fly-tipping. It also illustrates how the courts will look at who truly controls a company …
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Double your risk
A fitter’s mate who stepped on some ductwork in a Tyneside factory inadvertently overturned 200 years of legal tradition – and greatly increased contractors’ liability
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Suit yourself
The JCT has embraced the digital age with a service promising quick, clean documents that are precisely tailored to the job they cover
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Hold your horses
It was interesting to note Christopher Linnett’s comments on the increasingly short periods of time being allowed for contractors to tender for design-and-build enquiries (14 October).
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If you can’t stand the heat …
Perhaps, as Mr Linnett considers it bad practice to tender within such periods, he should stop working in the hot kitchen and retire to the dining room immediately.As a front-line contractor’s estimator, I’m the first to agree that a contractor’s bid team is up against it when undertaking such a ...
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The race still running
Your article “Four housebuilders pull out of ‘onerous’ grant process” (28 October, page 22) took a somewhat sensational line and missed at least some of the point as a result. Opening bidding to private developers for the first time was always going to be about testing the market. We expected ...
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Completion equals confidence
Congratulations to Trevor Hursthouse for defending the indefensible – that is, retentions – (7 October) but I suppose as chairman of the Specialist Engineering Contractors’ Group he had no alternative.
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Credit control where it’s due
Colin Harding and fellow travellers should remember one important fact before attempting to have retentions outlawed: contractors usually get paid 95% or 97% of work done to date in advance of completion, once a month.
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Tales from the pit
Our thanks to George Fordyce, head of engineering policy at the National Home Building Council, for sharing this fine example of ladder craft.
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Features
Global reach
‘The summit of world architecture has been conquered by a tiny class of signature architect who peddle a brand of designer egotism to desperate clients with no regard to context, placemaking or local needs. Discuss.’