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CommentEvolutionary politics
Thumping great overspend though it was, Holyrood could help the government turn its current survival-of-the-fittest approach into a best-practice blueprint
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CommentTwist and shout
liquidated damages clause has advantages for employer and contractor. So how come the latter is so keen to wriggle out of it when it comes into play?
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CommentLiving with The Others
Hovering above the real people doing real jobs on real site is a vast ghostly world of contract documents and legal obligations. How should the two interact?
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Watch your backs …
The Office of Fair Trading is planning up to 65 investigations into anti-competitive behaviour in construction. What should you do if one of them is aimed at you?
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One in the eye for Amicus
Despite the concerns of Amicus about the use of retina scans for site security at Heathrow Terminal 5 (17 December, page 9), I can only think that anything that prevents unwanted access to sites is a good thing.
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Come on, Colin
Colin Harding’s jaundiced and outdated view of the modern UK construction industry ignores the tremendous progress made in productivity, innovation and profitability over the past 10 years (17 December, page 21).
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Alsop’s fables
Frivolity, we know, is part of the festive season, but nonetheless it should be no excuse for sloppy journalism.
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FeaturesUrgently required: 8000 surveyors
The job: to carry out home condition reports for house sellers. The candidate: ideally a surveyor, but possibly a construction professional looking for a change. Experience preferred, but all applications will be considered (we’re desperate).
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Wonders & blunders
Nick Mason pins a medal on a relic of Victorian engineering, but regrets his mispent youth as an architecture critic
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Appointments
ContractorSteven Trim has joined Dorset family builder CG Fry & Son as trainee site manager.HousebuildersTaylor Woodrow has promoted Andrew Ridley-Barker to divisional director of the firm’s construction division. John Lohan has been appointed head of supplier development.Bellwinch Homes has appointed Jason Capel to the post of market researcher. Isobel German ...
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FeaturesJust the job
JM Erasmus explains why he left South Africa and accountancy for a life of cost management in London
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Investment in commercial sector to create mini boom
RICS survey predicts that rush to invest in offices is about to boost construction firms’ workload and profit
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Galliford Try set fair to make
Contractor Galliford Try is on course to make a record half-year profit when it announces its interim results in February.
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NewsWolseley spends £41m in latest acquisition spree
Building materials giant gets even bigger after it buys four companies in North America and Europe
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London office rents most expensive in world
London’s West End is the most expensive office location in the world, according to a report published by property services firm DTZ.
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Multiplex set to float in UK
Multiplex, the Australian contractor and developer, is considering a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange to boost its presence in the UK.
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FeaturesSo I changed my mind …
Peter Dixon is the man in charge of a £422m PFI hospital in London. He has also written in a national newspaper that hospital PFIs have been a ‘costly failure’. We invite him to explain himself – after which we get a second opinion from a woman with very definite ...
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FeaturesThe case against
If Allyson Pollock is right, it won’t be long before PFI hospitals introduce extra charges for anaesthetic. We find out why.