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Features
Are parliaments inherently unmanageable?
Solicitor Matthew Bell argues that Holyrood was always going to be a problem – but at least it is in good company …
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FeaturesBlob on the Tyne
Foster’s Sage music centre in Gateshead is positively puffed up with pride. And justifiably so thanks to a dramatic riverfront setting and its promise to put the city on the cultural map
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CommentHarsh reality
Rudi Klein goes in search of the ideal integrated supply chain – and instead stumbles upon another subcontract that perpetuates inequality, unfairness and risk-dumping
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CommentUncool customer
So MSPs are peeved they had to pay £431m for their parliament. But if the contractors delivered what the client said it wanted, why accept less than the true cost?
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Cover your back
Under the German civil code, contractors and clients can protect themselves against risk in several ways, but each one must be approached with caution
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CommentAgreement on principles
The first rule in law school is that an agreement to agree is not a contract. The second rule in law school should be that all rules have their exceptions
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FeaturesPFI in limbo
Ten years after it burst on the scene, PFI has become bogged down in project delays. As research published this week reveals yet more missed PFI targets, We report on how contractors are upping sticks and taking their expertise abroad
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FeaturesTop 200 Consultants 2004: Monsters, Inc
This year’s consultants league table ranks the 200 biggest, scariest practices in the UK – and then breaks them down into bite-sized top 100 architects, engineers and surveyors charts. So who are the Godzillas and the Godzukis of the industry this year? We report from under his desk, Tables compiled ...
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CommentAn ouzo to the Olympics
Perhaps we should have consulted the Oracle at Delphi before the Athens Olympics, because the project managers turned out to be inaccurate soothsayers
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Mexican cement firm set to buy RMC for £2.3bn
Board of UK concrete maker accepts record offer from Cemex, the world’s third largest cement producer
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WYG profit leaps 20% after shopping spree
Support services group White Young Green was hot on the acquisition trail in the second half of the year to 30 June 2004 – and drove pre-tax profit up 20% to £6.9m in the process.
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NewsLaing O’Rourke staff to lose bonuses over Dubai tragedy
Five dead and 23 injured at Dubai airport site, forcing contractor to review staff rewards on safety performance
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NewsSpotlight falls on role of crane in fatal accident
Reports from Dubai indicate that crane lost control and caused critical damage to wall reinforcement
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NewsGrimshaw ducks blame in Bath Spa row
In latest in a spate of disasters, architect gets steamed up over who is responsible for waterproofing problems
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Kevin Hyde quits as boss of beleaguered Jarvis
Kevin Hyde, chief executive of Jarvis, quit the troubled company on Tuesday.
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Industry leaders accuse Whitehall of failing to invest
Construction Confederation boss attacks delays in public spending programmes as minister makes a sharp exit
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Crossrail tenders to be issued
The first tenders for construction work on the £9.2bn Crossrail project, linking east and west London, will be issued next year – two years ahead of the first scheduled building work.
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NewsHBF slams Prescott’s £60,000 key worker homes as ‘unworkable’
Plans by deputy prime minister John Prescott to build £60,000 homes for key workers have been criticised as “unrealistic” by the industry.
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Mowlem to sue WYG for £2m
Contractor Mowlem is suing engineer White Young Green for £2m in a row over a store for thousands of feet of film dating from the First World War and owned by the Imperial War Museum
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RIBA calls for sustainable planning rules
RIBA president George Ferguson is lobbying deputy prime minister John Prescott and planning minister Keith Hill to adjust the planning system to ensure the government’s new communities are sustainable.