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NewsWimpey defies City fears with 19% profit hike
Volume housebuilder reassures the City with strong annual results and signs of cautious upturn in UK market
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Boss Graham Rice is latest to quit Heery after restructure
THe managing director of Heery International, the construction management arm of Balfour Beatty, is to leave the company following a restructuring of the firm.
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The man with the golden pen
The pioneer of lightweight and membrane structures, whose 1960s designs still look futuristic today, 79-year-old German inventor Frei Otto has won the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture
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CommentFall-out shelter
Will we ever have an industry in which well-run subcontractors do not continually face financial ruin because they happen to work for a contractor that goes bust?
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CommentMind and will
In a landmark case, a council architect is on trial for manslaughter, after an outbreak of legionnaire’s disease killed seven people. The verdict will be pivotal …
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CommentException to the rule
If you win a case against a limited company that goes bust usually you can’t pursue the owners for costs. But in this case that’s exactly what did happen …
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Biting back
The Latham review into payment provisions under the Construction Act recommends removing the need for a payer’s notice. In fact, what it really needs is more teeth
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CommentNo more party games
The interface agreement is a neat device that PFI special purpose vehicles can use to avoid ‘pass the parcel’ between subcontractors. However, the rules are getting complicated
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Not so disastrous?
After Building put its foot in it with the 10 ‘disastrous’ building projects, our readers kick back
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Behind the statistics
I was disappointed that your magazine chose to publish the PPP Forum’s inaccurate and misleading account of the evidence for PFI.
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Features… and a treehouse in the classroom
A new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert museum shows that children make some of the most inspiring, imaginative and brutally honest clients.
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NewsTerminal 5 tightens security as Met raises IRA terror alert
Leaked memo from head of security at Heathrow shows that Metropolitan Police fear Irish terrorist attack
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NewsDTI backs out of Sri Lankan hospital deal
Contractor Edmund Nuttall may have to cancel a £21m hospital building scheme in Sri Lanka after the UK government had second thoughts about the project
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Morgan Sindall thrives in weakened fit-out sector
Morgan Sindall said on Tuesday that the firm’s fit-out business was a key element in its success, despite a fall in demand in the sector.
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Plans for vocational diploma
Students in secondary education will be offered a diploma in construction and the built environment under government proposals announced this week.
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NewsUnions set to take CITB to court over skills card scheme
Relations between training body and construction unions reach all-time low as row continues over CSCS card
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British architect plans second Moscow suburb
Architect John Thompson & Partners is to design a suburban settlement on the banks of the Moskva River in Moscow.
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NewsSafety lobby focuses on design
An initiative to use design teams in the management of health and safety was due to be announced at the health and safety summit on Thursday
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Solihull regeneration adopts LIFT method
A £1.5bn regeneration project in Solihull, Birmingham, is the first to adopt the LIFT funding method – normally used for healthcare and education schemes.
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NewsHelp the non-aged
Architect van Heyningen and Haward has started on site with its CABE competition-winning design for a centre for children and young people in Lewisham, south-east London.