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NewsTrade bodies threaten to boot members out if they can’t prove competence
Focus on firms' abilities follow series of recommendations made following 2017 Grenfell fire
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NewsUrban Splash slumps to £3.4m loss
Result follows demerger of modular housing business without receiving payment
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NewsNetwork Rail and Kier team get OK for Twickenham housing
Pair are developers on job drawn up by London firm Wimshurst Pelleriti
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CommentHow competent are you?
A report out today sets out new competency requirements which those working on higher risk buildings should act upon immediately to avoid another Grenfell-style disaster, says Graham Watts
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry: What JRP, Osborne Berry and building control told us this week
Cladding fitters unable to explain ‘unacceptable’ errors while austerity staffing cuts hampered building control inspections
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NewsBuilding control officer ‘needed more time’ to focus on Grenfell refurb
‘Heartbroken’ council surveyor blasts staffing cuts and ‘confusing’ regulations but accepts his checks fell short
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NewsCovid pushes completion of Crossrail’s eastern and western stations into next year
Hochtief, Graham and VolkerFitzpatrick all working on schemes
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NewsMPs tell Parliament restoration team to stop dithering as weekly maintenance bill hits £2m
Review into proposals for overhaul due out later this autumn
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NewsMorgan Sindall wins £36m Cambridgeshire education campus
Job will be part of Urban Civic’s 5,000-home Alconbury Weald development
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NewsGrenfell inquiry: What we learnt from September’s evidence
Focus was on Harley Facade’s lack of technical expertise, while Max Fordham, Osborne Berry and CEP Architectural Facades also had questions to answer
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CommentDiverse voices must shape our future
Design leadership must grow and adapt in the wake of Richard Rogers’ retirement, says Sadie Morgan
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FeaturesRichard Rogers: All hail the architectural activist
Richard Rogers has announced his retirement after a career spanning over 50 years in which he became one of the most influential architects in the world. Former colleague Sarah Gaventa considers his legacy
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CommentBetter designed homes can improve young people's life chances
Damien Sharkey explains how HUB's recent design competition set out to help the next generation thrive
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NewsCouncil austerity measures meant inspection corners were cut, Grenfell Inquiry told
Building control officer had 130 projects to keep track of and felt forced to make ‘judgments’ about whose work needed most focus
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NewsHousing quango to be chaired by Argent founder
Peter Freeman given Homes England job after departure of Sir Edward Lister to be Downing Street adviser
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NewsTrust behind new Essex hospital eyes modular specialists to help build it
NHS group also wants to hear from technology, facade and M E firms
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NewsT Clarke to pay out interim dividend as firm says trading bounces back
But impact of covid means 2020 revenue will be down nearly £100m on last year’s figure
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NewsMcAlpine starts up at former Redrow towers job in Croydon
Housebuilder cutting London portfolio back to single scheme at Colindale