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  • News

    Data centre market reboots after dotcom crash

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Research by property company CB Richard Ellis finds 25% increase in demand for server farms

  • News

    Confident WSP raises dividend 6%

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Consultant WSP this week increased its full-year dividend for the first time in three years after its annual results showed a return to financial form.

  • Michael Latham
    Comment

    Cheers!

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Here’s to the British construction industry, and its ever more skilled workforce, committed clients and partners. Now, here’s how we can improve …

  • Whatever happened to those fearless construction managers? …
    Features

    Whatever happened to those fearless construction managers? …

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    The case of Great Eastern Hotel vs Laing is the first time that a court has turned a construction manager upside down and given him a good shake. On this occasion, £10m fell out of Laing’s pockets. So, has the game fundamentally changed, or was this case the exception the ...

  • Features

    CM in the dock

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Does this ruling concern the competence of one particular construction manager or does it have wider significance for the whole profession?

  • Features

    The bitter truth

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    It’s difficult for an expert witness to tell the party paying them that their case leaks like a sieve, but it is in everybody’s best interests that they do just that

  • Features

    Big deal

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Is this so new? Construction managers have breached their contracts before, the only difference is that the dispute never got to court – which demonstrates one of CM’s many benefits

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Sadly, unacceptable behaviour by a civil servant and a hamster called Norman let down this week’s otherwise sweet-natured and only partially clothed column

  • Contraceptive housing? St George’s Wharf in Vauxhall, south London
    News

    HBF: High densities may put couples off having children

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    In its latest attack on PPG3, housebuilders’ body says apartment life risks discouraging couples from reproducing

  • Quay change
    News

    Quay change

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    The London Borough of Newham has granted outline planning consent for a £1.5bn mixed-use scheme at Silvertown Quays, which includes an aquarium designed by Terry Farrell and Partners.

  • Diarmuid Gavin
    Features

    Diarmuid Gavin

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Don’t be fooled by the affable exterior – television’s most popular gardener is plotting a revolution in our own back yards. Here he lets us in on the secret and tries to recruit you as well.

  • Halfway house: Several housebuilders are taking a close look at shared equity schemes
    News

    Housebuilders flirt with shared ownership

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Housing industry experts predict that private housebuilders will begin to take more interest in shared ownership schemes as the market gets more difficult

  • News

    Housing data

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Planning applications in February

  • John Redmond
    Comment

    A simple disaster

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    A cautionary tale about what happens if you assume that a dispute does not exist (and therefore you can bypass arbitration) and are, as it turns out, wrong

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    For your eyes only

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    It is commonly believed that documents marked ‘without prejudice’ must not be read by a third party. In fact, it all depends on what they say

  • Comment

    A hard way to earn £2

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    If you have snagging claims against a contractor, can you sue them for the cost of rectifying the defects after a certain time? Indeed you can. But read this article first

  • James Bessey
    Comment

    The Singapore grip

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Singapore is about to bring in its own version of the Construction Act. It has much the same aims as the English law but has a better grasp of the issues

  • Comment

    Yellow card

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    The article “Biting Back” (25 February, page 52) referred to the chairman’s final report of the deliberations of the Payment Working Group for the review of Part 2 of the Construction Act.

  • Comment

    Vote wisely

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    RICS members are being given the opportunity to vote for members of the governing council.

  • Comment

    Hmmm …

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    A considerable amount of correspondence has appeared in Building as to why so few women find work on construction sites.