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NewsNHS LIFT project will net Carillion 30m in five years
Carillion reaches financial close on Birmingham and Solihull NHS LIFT contract
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NewsHunt is on for Fourth Grace designer as Alsop is axed
After throwing out Will Alsop's winning scheme, Liverpool is set to tender for replacement in September
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BAA considers two-second monorail 'taxis' for Heathrow
Airport operator weighs up smart mass transit system that can deliver passengers to exact destination
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Watts: 'BRE is on a precipice'
Graham Watts, chief executive of the Construction Industry Council, has called on firms to lobby the Treasury over changes to funding research in construction
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Plans to combat flood risk in Thames Gateway
Regeneration alliance the Thames Gateway London Partnership is to carry out an environmental masterplan this autumn in an attempt to counter the threat of flooding.
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“Your dry wall beam sounds most interesting"
Aluminium facade specialist Alumet shares the specification of its Avon Dry Wall Beam with the Queen
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Bowmer & Kirkland knocks Bovis off top spot in June
Derbyshire contractor tops league with two big projects, but it’s business as usual in yearly table
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FeaturesAccidents will happen
… but that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to pay for them. In an increasingly prevalent compensation culture, we find out why contractors are feeling sick over payouts – and looks at some classic fast ones pulled by industry opportunists.
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China's boom sends tidal wave through UK
The industry is experiencing the highest ever rise in material costs, according to figures released by accountant PKF.
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CommentThe battle of Twickenham
The funny, bitter, heartwarming tale of six men who came together to work on a London pub and found themselves transformed into a band of brothers …
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FeaturesDig that museum
Madrid architect Paredes Pedrosa has uncovered another treasure, a museum in the coastal Spanish town of Almeria
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NewsBroker’s notes - Who’s in the bunker now?
I have just got back from Royal Troon, where I spent a pleasant few days dodging the Tiger’s drives and supping gin and tonics on the 19th hole with my old mucker Peter Alliss. Todd Hamilton, the unknown Yank who snatched the British Open from under our noses, certainly showed ...
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CommentContract killing
Nobody will be in the least critical of Montpellier’s decision to walk away from Oxford University’s medical research centre. Over the past few months, animal rights activists have subjected management, shareholders, staff and their families to vile intimidation, vandalism and fraud.
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CommentFirst things last
Why did the cost of the Scottish parliament rise from £40m to more than £400m? Simple. Builders were asked to start work before the designs had been settled
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Rethinking arbitration
The unmitigated success of adjudication leads us logically to reassess the potential of a streamlined version of arbitration to deal with more complex cases
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CommentBeware your friends
If two firms snuggle up, and then one finds that the other is (metaphorically) picking its pockets, can it get a judge to intervene? The Court of Appeal had this to say …
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CDM made simple
The problem in assessing CDM’s effectiveness as A Beal suggests (Letters, 2 July, page 32) is that the industry has very rarely implemented the regulations as intended.
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Another part to the story
Your article “Experts warn of risk from unsafe glass” (18 June, page 17) states that the Building Regulations offer insufficient protection to the public from floor-to-ceiling windows and that architects are free to specify non-laminate glass.