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NewsCSCS cards mandatory on Bovis Lend Lease sites
Bovis Lend Lease insists that all workers carry a skills card on site.
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NewsPartnerships for Schools launches national frameworks
Frameworks for the Buildings Schools for the Future programme will include project management, technical and legal firms.
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Shuttleworth in race to build 250m PFI hospital
Former Foster partner hopes to extend fledgling practice into public sector with Forth Valley scheme.
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NewsJudge slams construction manager in landmark case
Industry experts react to £10m court ruling against Laing by defending beleaguered procurement method.
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Government to impose strict rules on all public contracts
OGC prepares dramatic shake-up of regulations – and promises to pay contractors on time.
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Are you properly equipped?
The claimant Ball lost the sight in one eye when he suffered an accident using farming machinery owned by the defendant Street. Ball had hired Street for the use of his hay mowing and bailing machinery. On the day of the accident, Street was not present but had consented to ...
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Just the job
Tim Johnson trained as a QS but quickly took a career swerve into an emerging sector
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NewsPersimmon makes 50% dividend increase
Persimmon this week backed up its bullish view of the housing market by increasing its full-year dividend 50%, outstripping City expectations
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Cemex completes RMC takeover for £3bn
Cemex, the Mexican cement producer, this week completed its £3bn takeover of UK concrete company RMC.
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NewsGalliford Try boss aims high in housing and construction
New chief executive Greg Fitzgerald plans to double construction turnover and housing output by 2010
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Wolseley chief calls for modernised industry
Adrian Barden, managing director of Wolseley UK, this week called for the construction industry to modernise and become more innovative and efficient if it was to deliver the volume of houses called for in the Barker report.
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CommentThe race for second place
Waking up to find that the Tories have regained popularity is certainly a strange feeling. Maybe they can fail a bit better this time
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FeaturesJohn Redwood
After three years away from the front bench, the poster boy of the Thatcherite right is keen to demonstrate how a Tory government would make £35bn of efficiency savings – and gladden the hearts of the construction industry.
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International costs: 2005
Gardiner & Theobald’s 13th annual survey looks at how much it’ll cost you to build various buildings around the world, along with labour and inflation rates – plus why China is still the main cost driver
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CommentFurtive behaviour
Before you sign a home-cooked contract, ask yourself why your client-to-be felt the need to do it himself, when there are so many standard forms out there
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CommentShock and or
It happens all the time – a contractor thinks the spec means one thing, the client another. In this case it ended in a judge’s interpretation of the word ‘or’
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A victory of sorts
Insurance companies may have failed in an attempt to stop payouts to workers with a lung condition caused by asbestos, but they did manage to limit compensation