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A world where nothing works
As the industry prepares to hear Kate Barker’s review of the planning system, a Building investigation reveals the mess it is in, dogged by bureaucracy, delays and disputes.
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Cat, pigeons, pigeons, cat
Just when we thought we'd got a handle on how adjudication is supposed is to work, along comes Judge Wilcox and introduces a feline to the coop …
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NewsSouthwell back with £100m MoD contracts to hand out
Former Atkins boss pilots his aerospace consortium towards £13bn aircraft PFI contract
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FeaturesSimon Hughes
The Lib Dem mayoral candidate has plenty to say about key worker housing, the Olympics, his yellow cab and Steven Norris – as long as you can keep up with him. We jogged alongside
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HBF warns Barker not to 'rig the market' for land
Housebuilders fear commercial developers and quangos will get 'special treatment' to boost competition
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FeaturesNow even tougher
The new Part L is to come into force three years before we thought it was! Oh my God!! What are we going to do??? Well, why not pour yourself a drink, sit back in a large leather armchair and peruse the first part of Building's E-Z-Read® guide to what's ...
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NewsPFI attacked for lack of openness
The Institute for Public Policy Research, a think tank close to the Labour Party, has called for greater transparency in PFI deals
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CommentStakes and ladders
If you skip a square at the very beginning of an adjudication you may find that at the end of it – when there's most to lose – you have to start all over again
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NewsContractor braced for claims after theft of accident books
Concrete firm John Doyle believes two of its site documents have been sold on to personal injury lawyers
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Alfred McAlpine buys £5.2m firm
Contractor Alfred McAlpine has made the first of an expected double acquisition in the infrastructure market.
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Shortlist of three for top job at Mowlem
Headhunters have drawn up a list of potential successors to Sir John Gains as chief executive of Mowlem
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Mayor unveils plan for greater London
City to be reorganised to create homes and jobs for 800,000 more people
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Edinburgh to get 40-storey tower
Beetham plans to extend brand to Scotland after success in Manchester
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NewsGateshead hall to get world's funkiest acoustics
Laing O'Rourke's £70m Tyneside concert hall is fitted with state-of-the-art panelling system
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Cockler deaths spur CSCS call
George Brumwell, the chairman of the Construction Skills Certification Scheme, is to press the government to make the card scheme compulsory for foreign workers in construction.
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Confederation urges majors to stay
The Construction Confederation has broken its silence over rumours that several large contractors may break away to form a rival lobby body
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FeaturesAn unconventional day
At Building’s first ever Construction Client Convention last Tuesday, Nigel Griffiths pledged his support, major clients learned the importance of their role, industry firms networked for new contracts and our editor did what he does best …
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FeaturesA roman triumph
The opening scene is a vast rundown Edwardian variety hall unsympathetically converted into a drab cinema. Enter lions, angels, QSs, engineers, architects, chariots, emperors and slaves bearing alabaster friezes, golden statues and a vast rotating ball. Cue music …
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FeaturesCost model: Affordable housing
Planning guidance on affordable housing quotas in private schemes has got developers and contractors scratching their heads and crunching their numbers. Here, Davis Langdon & Everest eases their pain …