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  • Features

    Shuttleworth shuffled

    2004-10-29T12:52:00Z

    Foster and Partners almost photoshops ex-colleague Ken Shuttleworth out of a team photograph.

  • News

    Crisis at Alsop as directors sell 40% stake

    2004-10-29T11:46:00Z

    Investment by venture capitalist R Capital keeps architect afloat.

  • Comment

    Who’s in control?

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    The defendant contractor secured a contract to decorate the exterior of a building. The claimant was a painter and decorator in partnership with his father and they were instructed by the defendant to carry out the work. The work required the use of scaffolding, but no ladder was provided by ...

  • News

    Work begins on 190m Cambridge PFI hospital

    2004-10-29T17:05:00Z

    Alfred McAlpine and partner Haden Young has started on a two-year project at Addenbrookes hospital.

  • News

    Hewitt plans to crack industry's men only culture

    2004-10-29T10:01:00Z

    Trade secretary launches campaign to persuade more women to break into ‘macho’ world of construction.

  • News

    Galliford Try directors resign to set up niche business

    2004-10-29T09:54:00Z

    Affordable housing bosses John Owen and David Faint expected to launch construction consultancy.

  • News

    Fresh blow to Jarvis as highways boss quits

    2004-10-29T09:33:00Z

    John Worthington resigns just as firm starts to rely on highways maintenance division to help cut debts.

  • News

    David Curry

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    The angry reaction from the House Builders Federation to PPG3 is predictable, but will John Prescott listen to its argument and reconsider some of his most criticised ideas?

  • Colin Clinton
    Features

    President Clinton

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    He may not yet be the international political force that Bill once was, but Colin Clinton knows how to use power to effect change – and not just at the ICE. We talk to him about his modernising agenda, globalisation and lawn mowing.

  • Comment

    What goes around …

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Here’s a warning to all those clients, and their lawyers, who want to make the granting of extensions conditional on a contractor giving notice about the effects of delay

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    Nothing comes of nothing

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Contractors are forever complaining about disruption on the job, but without hard evidence an adjudicator will award them precisely zero compensation

  • Comment

    Is it worth it?

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    In recent issues of Building, the alarm has been raised about the increasing cost of going to adjudication. Now we want you to help us find out the facts

  • Patrick Holmes
    Comment

    It’s bad news, I’m afraid

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Project managers and clients beware: under certain circumstances, you may fall under the Inland Revenue’s CIS scheme – with unpleasant consequences

  • Comment

    Why we said what we said

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    In your leader “Rouse … to Simmons” (15 October, page 3), CABE’s views of the proposals for the Royal London Hospital are criticised as “ill-judged” and “ill-timed”.

  • Comment

    Slums for the future

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    I wonder how many of your readers spotted that the balconies at Barons Place (8 October, page 39) have been installed upside down.

  • Comment

    Tweaking the act

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    I have just read Tony Bingham’s article in this week’s Building (8 October, page 54). I am aghast at the indecision of review panel number one – the looking at changes to the Construction Act’s payment rules – which surely must have the sense to recognise injustice and abuse when ...

  • Comment

    The wrong kind of demand

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Nick Lane is right to sound a warning about using winding-up petitions to make debtors cough up (3 September, page 52).

  • Comment

    A matter of security

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Would I work in Iraq? Absolutely not.

  • Comment

    Be a record maker

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest the excellent article entitled “Dear site diary” by Andrew Farrer (8 October, page 34).

  • Comment

    A site issue

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Imposing stricter safety regulations on the architect will not make construction safer as they are too far removed from the front line of construction (1 October, page 15).