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FeaturesOn the ground
The construction of new homes and infrastructure projects is essential if normality is to return to southern Iraq. Building went on patrol with the Royal Artillery to visit to some key construction projects under way around Basra
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Same again
Remember that movie in which Bill Murray was trapped in an endlessly looping nightmare?
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One step beyond …
A new resolution process has gone where adjudication feared to tread – into the imbroglios of international disputes
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Mediation is a busted flush
It has become received wisdom that mediation is always the best way to resolve a dispute. This is false, and it's getting falser – as some judges have realised
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NewsBrown announces Construction Act reforms in Budget
The Chancellor told the House of Commons in his budget speech on Wednesday that the government will reform the Construction Act to close loopholes in payment procedures
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Costain turnaround is complete
Contractor Costain will be in a position to offer a dividend to its shareholders next year for the first time since the 1990s.
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NewsTower records
Here's the latest image of the design for the sloping 40-storey tower for the Central Bank of Kuwait, designed by the London office of American architect HOK. In its competition-winning design for the headquarters, HOK adopted a pyramidal form that echoes traditional local architecture. Apart from the multidisciplinary ...
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NewsFoster's Washington patent
Foster and Partners was this week revealed as the architect of a glass enclosure for the Patent Office in Washington DC. The Greek revival building now houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.
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News'A few thousand' firms will join quality mark before next election
The government intends to sign up "a few thousand" firms to the quality mark by the next general election, says construction minister Nigel Griffiths.
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Firm fined £100,000 over worker's death
Hertfordshire contractor JDM Accord has been fined a total of £100,000 by Stafford crown court after a worker was killed during road improvement works.
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NewsAnd now … Watchdog
The National Audit Office is to investigate the BBC's White City office project next to BBC television centre in west London, which is being completed by Bovis Lend Lease. The watchdog will look at how the BBC is spending the £2.6bn of licence fee income on external suppliers.The NAO ...
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Jarvis seeks Tube Lines sale
Jarvis revealed last week that it may sell half of its stake in Tube Lines, the firm responsible for upgrading one-third of the London Underground, to reduce debt.
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Franklin + Andrews loses another key player
The head of property at QS and project management firm Franklin + Andrews is to leave the company at the end of next month.
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NewsSexy Salford
Developer Peel Holdings has received planning consent for a five-storey office building and two residential blocks of nine and 20 storeys next to Erie Basin in Salford Quays, Manchester. Designed by Broadway Malyan, the scheme is to include 6000 m2 of office space and 194 apartments with an equal number ...
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CommentA new kind of small talk
Rubber chicken returns with a trip to the property world's raison d'être: MIPIM in Cannes. Here our trusty reporter faced a grilling from Griffiths, a band of blues-playing QSs and …
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FeaturesArup's giant foaming Chinese puzzle box
Beijing's 2008 Olympic swimming stadium looks like a artifact from a dream: a giant box of glowing blue bubbles in which 17,000 people are concealed. Once you recover from the shock of seeing it, you start to wonder how anyone could possibly work out how to build it.
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Spring into action
In this month's Tracker, Experian Business Strategies reports on a record-breaking January for contractors and anticipates growth in UK construction to increase over the three months to May
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A game of give and take
Kate Barker’s one-stage planning proposal gets the thumbs-up from housebuilders – but other recommendations get a less warm reception
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Under instruction
Hallamshire had entered into a building contract with the local authority, South Holland District Council. It incorporated the JCT Form of Building Contract 1980 Edition Local Authority's version. They agreed that phase two of the project, in respect of fit-out works, would be dealt with by means of a variation ...