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NewsSafety campaigners plan march on Wembley stadium
March will draw attention to PC Harrington employee who fell to his death when a crane collapsed
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Rok walks away from Galliford Try
Contractor Rok has finally lost interest in buying Galliford Try, several months after its £113m offer was rejected.
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Holyrood: 15,000 design changes since 1999
Bovis Lend Lease, construction manager on the £430m Scottish parliament, has had to handle 15,000 design changes since 1999
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WYG strikes 43% off Ballast losses
Multidisciplinary consultant White Young Green has managed to claw back £150,000 of the money it was owed by failed contractor Ballast.
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NewsGovernment considers LIFT for Olympic site
Planners discuss using healthcare model to fund regeneration of east London Olympic venue
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GMW prepares to transform the centre of Nairobi
Architect is to work with the state on masterplan to regenerate centre of the Kenyan capital
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NewsDavies to fight for top GMB job
Phil Davies, the national construction secretary of the GMB, is to challenge for the number two job in the union
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Chickens come home to roost on Jubilee Line
Signalling problems that emerged on the Jubilee Line last year have their roots in the extension to the route in the late 1990s, according to PPP consortium Tube Lines.
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FeaturesWhere workers dare
Following last week's profile of a decorator in Iraq, recruitment consultant Richard Dobell reveals why construction workers are clamouring to go there
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NewsBroker's notes : Slippery share slides
Hands up anyone who thought John Callcutt was indestructible?
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FeaturesIn the next six months: New CIS system will tax the technophobes
National Federation of Builders is to assess the level of computer literacy among its members to find out how many will be able to handle an online tax system.
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Scary stuff
A little-known law about competitive advantage could mean that your well intentioned relationship-building lands you in a heap of trouble with the law
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FeaturesGateshead M&S by John Pawson: Nothing to shout about
Marks & Spencer’s efforts to rebrand itself as a sophisticated purveyor of aspirational housewear has led it to put a super-minimalist John Pawson house in its Gateshead store. We ran a jaundiced eye over the results …
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A salty tale
If two parties to a dispute give different accounts of what happened, courts look for something on paper. Trouble is, documents can be too persuasive
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I'll take that bet
John Smith offers to bet me that Constructing Excellence can't improve the image of the construction industry in a quantifiable way in two years (6 February, page 33).
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Just one tiny problem
I was intrigued to read (13 February, page 13) of the alleged theft of accident books, apparently to be sold on to personal injury lawyers.
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Construction superstars?
It's high time construction pushed itself forward in the way other, more "sexy", industries do.