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CommentLet the games end
More and more decent contractors are opting out of tricky public projects. If the government wants us back to build its Olympics, it’ll just have to outlaw retentions
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CommentGoing global
Global expansion should never be a vanity project and requires mastery of a tricky formula, but the payback for clients, staff and corporation can be immense
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FeaturesAt first It was like the battle of the Somme
Today Building launches Projects Reunited. Here you can catch up with former colleagues from legendary schemes you worked on together and find out how everybody is doing now. To get the ball rolling, we assembled 18 old chums who braved the muddy wastes of the Millennium Dome site …
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FeaturesCity Hall revist: Time has told
Ken Livingstone did not want Building to revisit his ‘Beehive’ City Hall three years after completion. Could it be that this 21st-century landmark has not achieved its low-energy targets?
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CommentWonders & blunders
Euan McEwan applauds the contextual subtlety of the Glasgow School of Art and decries a brutal misfit in rural Bedfordshire
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FeaturesRelax – it could be so much worse
Nick Leeson learned a lot about stress when he lost £862m, went on the run and ended up a Singapore jail. Now he’s sharing his coping strategies in a new book and executive workshops. Nick Jones introduced him to the famously relaxed Stef Stefanou, and felt his own blood pressure ...
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FeaturesSchools focus
A high school in north London is demonstrating how well a construction GCSE can work
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Multiplex reshuffles management team
Multiplex has reshuffled its management team in an attempt to silence critics who called for more transparency in the wake of the £48m loss on Wembley stadium.
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Amec lands £245m contract for two nuclear reactors
Support services group Amec has expanded its nuclear business by winning a £245m contract in Canada.
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Bovis chooses Scottish head
Bovis Lend Lease has promoted Gordon Anderson to head its Scottish business.
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Bovis Lend Lease grabs September top spot
Contractor’s £510m of work last month pushes it up to second in annual league, above Laing O’Rourke
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NewsData New-build completions in September
Completions and private registrations have held up well over the past 12 months and daily sales are ahead
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NewsRICS slams ODPM’s 20% planning gain tax
Ministers hope their proposed planning gain supplement, which has been given a roasting by a RICS report, will capture about one-fifth of the uplift in value generated by development.
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Strike threat over pensions
Seventy thousand construction workers employed by councils could strike if talks with the government fail to resolve a row over pensions.
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JCT digital contracts to cut legal costs
Lawyers have predicted that the JCT’s digital contracts, due to launch at the end of next month, will cut construction firms’ legal costs.
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NewsShort-distance learning
This special needs primary school in Islington, designed by architect SMC Corstorphine & Wright, is part of a mixed-use development.