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NewsA poisoned chalice
If a contractor offers to ‘accelerate’ work on a delayed job the employer should be aware that it may involve giving away a lot of money and legal protections
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The bill has arrived
While you were busy preparing for your Easter break, the government finally launched its corporate manslaughter legislation – but will it make us any safer?
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Comment
Take away the training levy
I write in response to your news article “M&E trade bodies propose mandatory training levy” (18 March, page 17).
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Talking ‘bout my generation
I read with dismay your article on on-site renewable energy with its premise that the building profession shouldn’t have to start thinking about renewable energy while there is still more to be done to make buildings more energy efficient.
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Let the market decide
In your article “Housebuilders reject ODPM’s latest revision of PPG3” (24 March, page 20), you report on plans to give councils a say in what types of housing are built in their areas.
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Free advert
The mobile workforce is on the increase in many organisations – whether it is a construction company with site workers, sales reps on the road or firefighters on call – and the message is clear: workers on the front line put the business at risk if they are not armed ...
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Roger Knowles: No discrimination
Having provided hundreds of jobs for women in my company over a period of 30 years, I was disappointed to read the comments from Sarah Bourne in last week’s Building.
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We’re all in power now
If you thought the idea of making a building generate 10% of its own energy was mad, you’d be right. It should be closer to 100%. Here’s how it can be done
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FeaturesWhen disaster strikes
The earthquake that struck Indonesia just three months after the Boxing Day tsunami should be a warning to us that in high-risk areas we need to build – and rebuild – with more than one type of catastrophe in mind. We examine the findings of a new report on disaster ...
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Japanese giant Kajima takes £80m hit on PFI schools
Massive loss incurred by UK arm of Japanese contracting giant adds to PFI ‘stigma’ in build-up to election
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Labour and Tories clash over housing
The Labour and Conservative parties squared up over housing reform and environmental building policy as they launched their election manifestos this week
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Election focus group: The industry speaks out
Building has assembled a panel of five industry figures, and each week we will interview them to find out what they think of the parties’ campaigns and who is the frontrunner to secure their vote. Interviews by Eleanor Snow
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Procure21 firms demand promise over its future
Kier boss John Dodds writes to health minister to make sure healthcare building framework will not be axed
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Inquiry finds sabotage ‘highly unlikely’ at Potters Bar
The rail faults that led to the Potters Bar crash, which killed seven people in May 2002, were “highly unlikely” to be the result of sabotage, an independent inquiry has ruled.
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NewsIndustry attacks CDM revisions
Industry experts have criticised the HSE’s proposed revisions to the CDM Regulations, claiming they do not properly clarify the responsibility of clients
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NewsPurple glaze
An £18m health centre in Hounslow, Middlesex, with Willmott Dixon Construction as design-and-build contractor, Penoyre & Prasad as architect and Caxton FM as facilities manager, is the first project of a local improvement finance trust (LIFT) company set up in west London.
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Diplomatic triumph
Rem Koolhaas’ Rotterdam practice, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, has won the top European architectural award for its Dutch embassy in Berlin, completed last year.
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Clients face wave of upfront payment demands
Specialists set to take action unless Construction Act review protects them against insolvent employers
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Scotland gains its own architectural watchdog
Scotland’s version of CABE, Architecture & Design Scotland, was launched this week, and will target the design of PPP projects.
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Jams cost small firms £181m
Poor transport infrastructure is costing small construction firms £181m a year in lost productivity and profits, according to research published this week.