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Industrial perversity
Graduates are generally a motivated, intelligent and enthusiastic bunch, so why does the construction industry make it so difficult for them to join?
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CommentWar of the words
A letter of intent is meant to be a stop-gap before the contract kicks in, but all too often it sparks a dispute – in this case over the words ‘loss and expense’
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NewsMiller buys Fairclough Homes for £264m
Scottish construction group Miller has bought Fairclough Homes from its US owner Centex for £264m.
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NewsMiliband calls in EP to save new deal projects
Communities minister David Miliband has sent in English Partnerships to rescue the government’s failing flagship regeneration programme.
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PFI funders may take money abroad, Treasury warned …
Investors tell government that it could be cheaper and less risky to work on Continent as PFI markets open up.
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CommentHow to make a stand
Suzanne Reeves kicks off an occasional series on the contracts behind major projects with a look at the JCT contract used for the Oval’s new stand
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NewsGrowth areas must deliver or lose grants, declares Rouse
Funding will be restricted to regions that are pushing through housing provision, says boss of Housing Corporation
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Pearce Construction sues engineer WSP for £2.5m
Contractor brings High Court writ saying WSP failed to identify electrical defects in luxury London apartments.
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A tragedy, not a crime
The Hatfield defendants were innocent, and would have been under a reformed law. If you want a villain in this piece, look at past and present governments
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Spoilt for choice
At last we have a contract that caters for third-party rights, but this extra option in the new JCT design-and-build contract could pose a problem
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PFI under the knife
PFI is in need of drastic surgery, according to the people who are struggling to work with it. In this procurement special, Angela Monaghan talks to contractors about high bid costs and strained capacity and asks if the government is ready to respond to calls for reform. Plus ...
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CommentThe unspeakable truth
One reason that specifications are so immensely long is because they are elaborate preparations for a fight. And the ironic thing is, they don’t even do that very well
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Recycling centre is rubbish
I was astonished to read in Specifier (9 September) that one of the North London Waste and Recycling Centres is described as “an absolute Rolls-Royce of a job”.
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Watching the defectives
Regarding your piece on defects in new homes (9 September): the research undertaken within the School of the Built & Natural Environment, at Glasgow Caledonian University, is based on more than 100,000 pieces of data relating to defects in a broad range of house types, constructed by more than 200 ...
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Why retentions must go
I read your article “Blood and money” (2 September) with great interest.
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Recruitment faces dire future
Your article outlining the current recruitment problems in Essex (9 September, page 110) failed to mention three other developments that will “make high demands upon the local construction industry”. These are the Thames and Haven Gateways projects, both of which provide for thousands of homes and huge industrial and commercial ...
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We’re not using CDM right
Any attempt to get the industry to recognise the financial and other benefits to be gained from improved logistics is to be applauded.
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Partners in crime
I sit and wonder whether Egan’s theory of partnering “twice as much for half the price” will ever be as famous as Einstein’s formula for the relationship between mass and energy, E=mc2. Partnering is the new “in thing” and at least 50% of local authorities are attempting to do it. ...
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