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CommentBlow your rights
Why try to compare litigation with mediation when they do different things? We have mediation because we can't afford to find out what the truth is
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NewsBabtie curbs staff travel because of fears over Sars
Consultant's Hong Kong and UK offices hold meetings by video as virus epidemic shows no signs of abating.
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BAA faces crunch decision over electricians' pay at T5
Firm reluctant to concede wage rises for M&E staff for fear of setting benchmark for other workers.
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MDA directors set up rival QS with former boss
David Clark and Paul Mansell join forces with former boss David Somerset to found Matrix.
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Not you again
One adjudicator tackling several related disputes seems a good way to cut out duplicated effort. But the parties must agree to it – or the adjudicator will get it from all sides
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CABE goes to Paris to improve social housing
Design watchdog CABE has teamed up with its French counterpart, Direction de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, to launch a competition for social housing in London and Paris, writes Sally Mesner.
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NewsPrescott sets up taskforce to crack housing crisis
ODPM pulls 180 officials into dedicated regeneration team to tackle shortage of homes in South-east.
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NewsStanhope U-turn over £3bn Stratford City scheme
Despite Lipton's pledge that developer would do its own housebuilding, it seems help is now in order.
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M&E firm forced to halt trading
M&E design firm Cameronaire Environmental has gone into administration
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BDP in talks over 40-storey City of London skyscraper
Planning application to be submitted in six to nine months, depending on outcome of Shard of Glass inquiry.
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FeaturesThe guv'nors
In three years, Sir Stuart Lipton and Jon Rouse turned CABE from an idea into a key British institution. Now that it's on the brink of another massive expansion, we find out where they're taking it now
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Try regroups to focus on key market sectors
Galliford Try has split its construction division into three business units focusing on key market sectors.
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HBG spells out strategy
HBG Chief executive Brian May was bullish about the group's prospects desipite the weakening of the construction market.
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Drawing to a close
Architectural drawings were once signature pieces that told us a lot about those who did them. Now the RIBA has a great scheme to save them from extinction
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FeaturesBudget? Fudge it!
Politicians, bureaucrats, voters and contractors all want to believe that ambitious public projects offer value for money – but the costs quoted in a shocking new book tell another story. Could PFI be the solution?
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FeaturesVodka modern
Drinks giant Diageo has turned office space into outer space in a corporate fit-out so futuristic nobody else has got there yet. Must be all that Smirnoff …
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Sail or return
You buy a yacht for a cool quarter of a million, sail around in it for six months, decide you don't like it and ask for your money back. Fair dos – or taking the mick?