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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
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Who'll take on apprentices?
I'd like to respond to the news of a new training board (3 October, page 3).
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Fit for a comedy sketch
With reference to Roger Knowles' letter (10 October, page 36) and the rather tired debate over the RICS, may I point out that architects, engineers and solicitors all have their own specialisms yet remain quite content to practise under the generic banner of their profession.
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Show a bit of initiative
I was encouraged by the story "Clarke: Skills council will end need for foreign workers" (3 October, page 13).
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Do one job well
We have been watching several professional organisations agonise over agendas for change for some time now, among them the RICS and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
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Not so special
Your article "The Techmeisters" (26 September, page 74) was either written with tongue firmly in cheek or you fell under the spell of snake oil salesmen intent on cornering a market.
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Hearing you loud and clear
I read your news item about housebuilders being spared the need to test their houses for adequacy of sound resistance (29 August, page 13) and thought, what a shame.
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More to restore …
I recently watched Restoration on BBC2. Like many, I was both interested and depressed.
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FeaturesConfusion reigns
In the first of a monthly series of articles on urban regeneration, we look at the mess that the government has made of its part of the process, and suggests how it might start to clear it up.
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CommentHow can you say that?
The Treasury would have us believe that the PFI can do no wrong. But, as James Nesbit points out, its data makes genuine comparisons impossible
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CommentWonders & blunders
I am tempted to revel in the open spaces in and around the Tate Modern but walk by the Hayward shaking my head