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NewsThird of small businesses harmed by cartels
The office of Fair Trading has found that anti-competitive business practices such as cartels and price-fixing are harming a third of small and medium-sized construction firms.
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NewsMowlem to close down or sell loss-making businesses
Contractor announces plan to cut some operations, with combined turnover of £50m, after declaring £73m loss
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BSS confident ahead of results
Plumbing business says trade is healthy despite tricky market conditions
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£35m leisure and court contracts for Alfred McAlpine
Contractor picks up contracts with Scottish Courts Service and Leisure Connection.
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T5 steelworkers set to strike
The Heathrow Terminal 5 scheme is set to be hit by walkouts next week after steelworkers voted in favour of striking over pay.
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BRE may sue ODPM over use of eco-rating system
Consultant takes legal advice as ODPM prepares to use version of EcoHomes in Code for Sustainable Buildings
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CommentTimid times
Our consultation culture has made us so obsessed with finding a consensus that we’re scared to build the visionary ‘grand projects’ that defined the West a generation ago
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CommentIt makes sense
Why all the fuss? ‘Corporate social responsibility’ is just highfalutin’ name for common sense. Simply do your best to look after whatever resources your business uses
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FeaturesHow to do a public consultation – and survive
Angry protesters, weeping old ladies, paranoid tenants … there’s no end to the horrors you must prepare to face when carrying out a community consultation. But don’t worry, there are tricks you can use to make the process work.
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CommentBattle tactics
For subcontractors the day when crippling paid-if-paid clauses are outlawed cannot come too soon, but in the meantime here’s how to launch an effective counter-attack
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CommentA family affair
The man who defrauded the Millennium Dome of £4m has just been sent down, but suspicions were first aroused in a little-known adjudication case back in 2001
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Paralympic hurdles
The fact the capital will host the 2012 Paralympics should spur you to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act. But you might face the high jump long before that
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Hitting home
The European Commission is loath to admit that its remit includes housing policy, but the scale of housing need in Europe may require it to adopt an integrated approach
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True colours
As a 26-year-old building surveyor working for a large contractor, I had hoped that your graduate article (16 September) would have addressed all the issues the construction industry faces.
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Oi! Mr Blitz! No!
Perusing the September edition of Regenerate, mainly to note how the South-east is going to “cock up” the London Olympics, I read with interest the article by Roger Blitz concerning the Muslim community.
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Taxman tales
With reference to JT Emanuel’s letter on plans to revise the CIS (9 September), he says “part of the blame for the Revenue not taking any notice [of industry complaints] lies in the fact that the industry’s negotiators are not builders”.
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Short on time
Your opening statement “Ask anyone in construction what the biggest problem they face is and there is just one answer: the skills shortage” (16 September) caught my attention. Is the skills shortage really the biggest problem for construction people?
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A load of hot air
With reference to your article about the failure of natural ventilation systems (9 September), we can identify with many of the points made in the article.
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How to get paid
After reading the article on proposed reforms to the Construction Act to address payment abuse (2 September), I’d like to draw attention to a simple solution – the Late Payment of Commercial Debt (Interest) Act 1998: Agree payment terms at the outset of a deal and stick to them;Explain your ...
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