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Bowe sets up PFI bid service
Former Citex facilities management boss Peter Bowe has started a consultancy aimed at reducing bid costs for PFI and public–private partnership bidders.
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Comment
Minority report
Weighty reports are all very well, but they're not the best way to get firms to reach out to women and ethnic minorities. We need positive recruitment practices
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FeaturesPenalty clauses
Signing up with a football club client? Watch out for prima donna chairmen and financial trick shots. Phil Clark reports from the sidelines on the pitfalls of building a stadium.
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FeaturesA Man and his tools
BuildOnline's Mark Oliver chose an odd moment to join a dotcom. Yet he is confident that his firm's collaboration programs will trigger a computer revolution – if only firms can find a way to upgrade those soft pink things that operate them.
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FeaturesCubic feat
Architect SpacelabUK has designed a stark, geometrically pure house that sits on the Cambridgeshire countryside like a square drawn on a very flat line …
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Comment
What's wrong with simple?
The Contracts (Right of Third Parties) Act makes collateral warranties and their bureaucratic complications redundant. Yet some lawyers seem reluctant to see them go
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The great unknown
Not knowing the law used to be no excuse for anything. But now the courts are telling us that it can be a helpful point to raise in a contractual dispute
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FeaturesSoho fabulous
Lifschutz Davidson's swanky revamp of 20 Soho Square should appeal to the area's media types – and, like the Ab Fab girls, it has squeezed a lot into a small space …
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Costly insurance cover leaves subcontractors feeling exposed
Insurance premiums have risen by up to 500% in the last year and many subcontractors are finding it hard to bear the costs.
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Industry to urge DTI to crack down on labour agencies
Frustrated construction leaders will demand an end to unscrupulous working practices at high-profile summit.
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Galliford Try's construction chief quits
Deputy chief executive Marsh leaves as firm issues profit warning.
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NewsHewden may face £8m bill over Docklands crane deaths
High Court rules that hire firm rather than contractor was responsible for operation during fatal crane collapse.
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NewsTreasury considers tax breaks to spur regeneration
Gordon Brown's key adviser, Ed Balls, is set to attend talks on the US-style concept after the urban summit.
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Crackdown: Construction takes on the labour agencies
For years, dodgy labour agencies have been bringing illegal immigrants on site, avoiding tax and even terrorising the contractors they are supposed to be helping. Tom Broughton reports on an industry that has had enough – and is gearing up to fight back
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FeaturesPeter Gershon
Hired to overhaul government procurement, Peter Gershon is a huge fan of the PFI. But, as Marcus Fairs found, the chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce is uncomfortable singing its praises.
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NewsWe're going to struggle
Darren Richards, engineer and prophet, wants to turn prefab housing from vague talk into a working system. The problem is that resistance to it is deeply rooted in Britain's popular psychology and industrial culture. Josephine Smit finds out why.
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Comment
Mediation mapped
The legal context in which mediation takes place is becoming more complex and more coercive. Here's a guide to where we are now, and an idea of where we're going
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NewsWar of words at Shepherd after unfair dismissal claims
New group chairman issues letter to staff in response to press reports of ex-chairman Paul Shepherd's writ.