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CommentCruel and usual treatment
You contractors get stroppy when your subbies fail to deliver, but the culprit is often the dodgy, lazy, time-honoured ways of the good old British building industry
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NewsConcorde's swansong causes chaos at Heathrow T5
Row breaks out over whether Laing O'Rourke workers could take today off as the plane makes its final landing.
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Mapeley set to bid for Ballast Services
Outsourcing specialist Mapeley is expected to launch a bid for Ballast Services, the PFI and facilities management division of failed contractor Ballast. However, it is likely that an offer would be met by a counterbid from a management buyout team
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Halcrow wins two major design contracts in Qatar
British multidisciplinary consultant beats off international competition to take projects worth £210m.
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NewsMowlem sues former Exeter City directors for £250,000
Contractor chases ex-directors after they gave personal guarantees for work on Ivor Doble stand.
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NewsGriffiths: Quality mark still alive
Construction minister Nigel Griffiths has pledged to increase the number of contractors signed up to the government's quality mark scheme
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Mott MacDonald enters the Beijing Olympics
Firm creates first-ever joint venture between Chinese and western multidisciplinary consultants.
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NewsVenables signs Scott Brownrigg
Former England football manager Terry Venables has signed up architect Scott Brownrigg to design a Spanish leisure resort valued in the region of £50m
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Carillion takes September with £125m hospital deal
A giant NHS contract makes Carillion winner of the month, while Kier gets runner's-up prize in annual table.
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Be flexible
In the second part of our work-life balance series, Andrew Garbutt of Berkshire Consultancy explains how to negotiate effectively for flexible working arrangements
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Winter bites
In this month's market overview, Experian Business Strategies reports that levels of growth will fall by December, followed by a further slowdown next year – except in the booming housing sector
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Defective thinking
What do defects have to do with retentions? Nothing. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Sweet Fanny Adams. But just you try telling the government that …
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FeaturesNigel Griffiths
A skills crisis, worrying accident rates, controversial contracts in post-war Iraq and a promotional mission to Brazil: our minister has got a lot on his plate. In fact, if you're interested, he could probably pop round one evening and take you through it. Say next Thursday? We try to keep ...
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FeaturesAfter Mies
Rem Koolhaas' Chicago campus centre is both a homage to and a slap in the face for its former lecturer, one Mies van der Rohe. And some are finding that hard to swallow …
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Would you like some more money?
Not only are your labour-only subcontractors entitled to holiday pay, but if your arrangements for giving it to them are unclear, you could end up doling out twice
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Bye-bye, Bambi
The Be Collaborative contract is another adorable newborn legal fawn taking its first unsteady steps towards the combine harvester of the construction industry