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FeaturesThe secret epidemic
We all know the horrific statistic that a construction worker dies every three or four days. What this figure conceals is the hundred of thousands of others struggling with work-related illness, trauma and stress.
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FeaturesPeak performance
The Health and Safety Laboratory provides technical back-up for the Health and Safety Executive, a remit that includes exploding trucks full of fireworks and body piercing. And it now has a £56m PFI base in Derbyshire to work out of. We found out what it does – and how it ...
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A nip in the air
In this month’s Tracker, Experian Business Strategies division reports that growth in orders is slowing and the activity growth rate is expected to fall over the three months to December
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CommentOpen mike: The QS’s apprentice
The increasing amount of debt carried by today’s graduates creates an opportunity to reshape the early relationship between employer and employee …
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The future is here
Los Angeles: Year 2004. Fifteen years earlier than Ridley Scott suggested, Blade Runner architecture has landed on the West Coast in the shape of this transportation HQ.
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NewsAmec to relist as support services company
Amec is moving away from its construction roots by relisting as a support services company on the London Stock Exchange.
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Crest Nicholson feeling bright despite gloom
Housebuilder Crest Nicholson this week issued an upbeat trading update, despite negative speculation engulfing the sector.
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CommentMedical complaints
“A special relationship in which one partner takes all the time and the other gives all the time is not a partnership but an exploitation. That is what exists now. It is time it stopped.” That was Gerald Kaufman talking this week about the US-UK alliance. But there are a ...
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Who can you trust?
lients ought to realise that lawyers and expert have their own reasons for attacking or defending a procurement route. No advice is completely objective
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CommentWhen can you be unfair?
djudicators who ignore the rules of natural justice in their conduct may not fall foul of the courts, but they should be given a damn good thrashing anyway
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Further to Mr Bingham …
nd talking of Amec vs Whitefriars, here’s some other aspects of the case that Tony Bingham didn’t cover – such as the ‘bullying’ of the adjudicator
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What happens at the end
ave you read your contract thoroughly? Right to the end? If you did, and you spotted the hidden ‘entire agreement clause’, give yourself two Scoobie snacks
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NewsHousing Hepworth
David Chipperfield Architects has submitted a detailed planning application for a £15m gallery of Barbara Hepworth sculptures in Wakefield, west Yorkshire. The competition-winning proposal is intended as a focal point of FaulknerBrowns’ masterplan to regenerate a collection of historic mills, warehouses and a chapel at the head of the River ...
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Internal Bath Spa report criticises Grimshaw
Architect Grimshaw has been dealt a blow in the Bath Spa saga after the local council’s internal report suggested that the latest disaster to befall the project could be caused by design problems, writes George Hay.
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London Olympic stadium could have £250m price tag
The Olympic stadium for London’s 2012 bid will require at least £250m of investment, according to project insiders.
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On-line aid for clients
The Construction Clients Group will next week launch a free web-based tool to encourage more clients to embrace the principles of Rethinking Construction, the 1998 report on the industry by Sir John Egan.
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Riot-hit detention centre was ‘astonishingly flimsy’
The Ombudsman for Prisons and Probation this week condemned the standard of design and construction at a detention centre where a riot broke out, saying that this contributed a great deal to the extent of the damage it suffered.
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NewsUrban tsar ditches Prescott for Livingstone
The government’s head of urban policy has resigned to become London mayor Ken Livingstone’s key official on the 2012 Olympic bid.