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News
Balfour Beatty picked for £90m rail contract
Balfour Beatty has been named preferred bidder for a five-year, £90m line maintenance contract by Network Rail, the railway authority.
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Features
Easing off the gas
In this month's survey, Experian Business Strategies reports that growth in construction activity continued to lose momentum in April and that it is expected to maintain its slightly cautious pace until July
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Focus on the regions
A closer look at activity levels and order books in 11 regions around the UK reveals that things have been looking up in the North-west, the Midlands, Wales and the South-west
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Comment
Machiavelli's advice
What does the future hold for contractors? History can give us some of the answers – and so can a well known renaissance philosopher
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FeaturesRespect yourself
Two years after John Prescott launched his construction safety drive, the industry is coming under renewed pressure to improve its dreadful accident record.
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Need an energy boost?
As the tired old commercial sector flags, a bright and bouyant industry sneaks up from behind and overtakes it. We jog alongside
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Hew Tittensor
Being sued is every partnership's nightmare, but there's a novel way to limit your liability
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Comment
Deathwatch
It is estimated that 1.5 million non-residential premises in the UK may be affected by a new regulation to control asbestos at work. Is yours going to be one of them?
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Comment
If it walks like a duck …
… and it talks like a duck and it looks like a duck (etc) then it probably is a duck. The same principle applies to contracts. Let me explain
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Comment
A misdiagnosis?
We write in reference to your feature on the Cumberland Infirmary (30 May, page 38).
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Lock up your aeroplanes
I read with shock and horror how sex offenders have been unleashed to work in restricted access areas on airport projects (13 June, page 11).
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Diversity blues
Try something next time you go to work or visit another construction business.
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Don't forget what you are
Some members of the RICS have pushed that body into mimicry of big multinational business by wandering off into attempted globalisation.
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The complete wall package
I read with interest the Brick Bulletin (13 June, page 83) and in particular David Szymanki's article (page 95).
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High-flying greenhorns
You published a reader's article complaining of over-regulation (11 April, page 39), followed up by a reader's letter (9 May, page 35) complaining that there is an expert consultant for everything.
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Let there be light
Constructing new buildings with windows is not exactly rocket science, and it would seem that the Cumberland Infirmary is breaking the law in asking its employees to work in windowless workspaces (30 May, page 38).
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Ask a silly question
Skilled labourers work in abysmal conditions, are paid peanuts and have to compete against cheap imported labour. Take a guess why nobody wants to work in construction
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Trading up
Gary Redman of NOW recruitment shows how to respond if you are wooed by a headhunter