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Features
Costs: Sealant joints
Sealant joints may be the weakest link in a facade. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans runs through key whole-life performance and costs issues for sealant options
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FeaturesPaints, sealants and finishes
How the EU is doing away with high-gloss paints, and later on we have the newest products, who makes what and a look at the bottom line when the paint’s dry
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NewsNorman Haste steps down as Crossrail chief
CTRL says that Haste will stay on until a successor is found in the summer.
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900m water contract reaches financial close
Costain, Aitkins and Galliford Try will deliver water and infrastructure works for Unitied Utilities in North West England.
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NewsFirst timer buyers flock to Redrow's £50,000 homes
First time buyers queue round the block for Redrows' answer to English Partnership's £60,000 challenge.
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Ennstone raises a further £5.74m in Johnston sale
Disposal of NorAM brings total amount raised from sale of Johnston businesses to £26.64m.
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NewsTroubled Bath Spa to stay closed for another year
Project manager Capita Symonds set to complete repairs by next Easter after taking over from Mowlem.
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Roofer blew whistle on cartel after blackmail threat
Roofing firm Briggs exposed the illicit cartel it was involved in to OFT after being blackmailed over its activities.
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Comment
Is that decision final?
Scrabster entered into a contract with Mowlem in respect of the construction of a new breakwater quay and associated works as part of a new ferry terminal. The contract was subject to the ICE Conditions of Contract, fifth edition.Certain disputes arose and an adjudication was commenced. The adjudicator’s decision went ...
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Comment
Free to adjudicate
This was an appeal from the decision of HHJ Havery of 25 June 2004 in which he determined four issues relating to the enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision. The judge found that an oral instruction was evidenced in writing by the minutes of a meeting dated 15 September and ...
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News
RIBA lobbies hard for top-up tuition fee exemptions
Architectural body fears that charges for five-year degree will freeze out all but the affluent from the profession.
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FeaturesThe China trip
China is in the process of building the biggest economy in the world at a pace that is hard to bend your head around – this is a country where planning approval can take a few hours and a town containing 11 universities can be built in a couple of ...
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FeaturesBao Guangjian: man of steel
Bao Guangjian is China’s most innovative steel specialist and the driving force behind Beijing’s impossible-to-build television centre – and even he is a little concerned about whether it’ll stay up … we went to meet him in Shenzhen
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Features
Local lowdown: Scottish Highlands
Robert Smith of Hays Construction & Property reports on the Scottish Highlands
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Features
Just about holding up
Last year, construction output grew more than the UK economy as a whole, but the outlook over the next few years is flatter than Patagonia. Experian Business Strategies crunches the numbers
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NewsWillmott sees PFI entry as ‘main challenge’ for future
With profit passing £10m, the Willmott Dixon boss is confident he will avoid the losses incurred at other big names
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CommentAn admission
The answer to the future energy needs of the UK is to be found in the power plants of Woking. Or should that be the wind farms of Denmark? Hang on …