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CommentInadmissable evidence
The answer to Tony Bingham’s ‘fuzzy edge disease’ is unambiguous contracts that do not rely on pre-contract transactions that will, rightly, be ruled inadmissable
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CommentWonders & blunders
Gill Taylor thinks the Scottish parliament is a playful masterpiece, but finds no fun in out-of-town toyshops
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FeaturesClass struggle
The government has £5bn to spend on its city academies programme over the next four years, but it’s finding it strangely difficult to get the construction industry to take its money … Eleanor Cochrane looks at what’s going wrong while Martin Spring considers the architecture
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FeaturesSustainability: On-site renewables
In the first of our spotlights on sustainability, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the increasingly prevalent issue of on-site renewable energy, including the options available and costs
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Just the job: Hayley Bufton at Willmott Dixon
Hayley Bufton has had quite a busy year, bagging Willmott Dixon's trainee of the year award and finding time to front a national advertising campaign …
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FTSE takes housebuilders out of construction sector
The quoted construction sector started the new year as a much smaller entity than it was in 2005, after the FTSE reclassified housebuilding under household goods.
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FeaturesSir Steve Redgrave
Britain’s leading Olympian has retired from the soul-bending agony of international athletics and has begun a number of jobs in construction, the industry he left 20-odd years ago. Tom Broughton found out what they are, and why he’s returned.
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FeaturesExtra time and penalties
Football fans, government officials and construction experts alike are obsessed with the struggle to get Wembley finished in time for the FA Cup Final in May.
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FeaturesUp, up but not away
The world’s first permanent inflatable roof has just landed at Heathrow airport. Before it got there, a project team including a hot-air balloon specialist had to design it, build it and get it past the regulators. Thomas Lane finds out how they made sure it didn’t fly away
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McAlpine nets £160m shopping centre job
Contractor Sir Robert McAlpine has been confirmed as the winner of a £160m contract to build the Shires shopping centre in Leicester.
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NewsDiamonds in the rough
Contractor Mansell has picked up a £4m contract to build a community education centre in Deptford, south-east London, for the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust
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NewsIn the bank
The Royal Bank of Scotland’s £200m, 100,00 m2 headquarters is the largest in the current crop of new buildings in Edinburgh.
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ODA allays fears over programme manager role
The Olympic Delivery Authority has moved to allay fears that new chief executive David Higgins could abandon the search for a programme manager for the London 2012 Games.
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PFI community dismisses claims of hospital rethink
Top PFI players have denied that the government’s hospital programme is on hold.
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NHS contractor issues writ
Contractor CH Pearce is locked in a dispute with the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham that could cost the NHS trust almost £1.6m.
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NewsHamburg office set for take-off
The architect m2r, which has offices in London and Berlin, has submitted this office project in Hamburg for outline planning consent.