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News
Contractors set to escape £100m extra insurance costs
Health and safety minister orders review of proposals to transfer workplace injury treatment costs to insurers.
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Elephant & Castle lumbers into action
Southwark council is about to make a second attempt to get Europe's largest regeneration scheme under way.
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Barcelona man for Plymouth
Architect David Mackay, one of the designers who transformed Barcelona, has clinched a £100,000 deal for the regeneration of Plymouth's city centre, waterfront and suburbs, writes Sally Mesner.
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Laing nicks lead in January with £99m police contract
Bovis is escorted off the contractors' monthly top spot but retains annual authority with £100m airport work.
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International costs: 2003
Gardiner & Theobald’s 11th annual survey of global construction costs takes a look at labour rates, building costs, material prices and inflation from Norway to New Zealand
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FeaturesRead this!
Business leaders now accept that their companies need to be environment-friendly – energy efficiency improves the bottom line and green publicity can make or break a company's reputation.
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FeaturesSmart management
Have you ever found yourself wishing that you could take more than the standard five weeks' holiday a year?
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Comment
Easing the agony
Last year's famous Delay and Disruption Protocol presents difficult and potentially painful problems for contract administrators. So what should they do?
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CommentBlair vs Hussein
A Mr Blair has accused a Mr Hussein of hiding arms. But who has the burden of proving their case? And to what standard? Think hard: you're on the tribunal
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Setting the record straight
Contract clauses freeing you from the cost of an adjudicator's decision won't do you much good. But in two recent cases, a judge and a columnist got this wrong
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All or nothing at all
'Entire agreement' clauses confine the rights of parties to those in the contract. Sounds simple, but what happens when the parties agree to eleventh-hour additions?
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Hanson holds on despite US downturn
Building materials company Hanson has announced a slight drop in pre-tax profit for the 12 months to 31 December.
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You get what you pay for
If your daughter was getting married, you wouldn't chose the cheapest caterer regardless of quality, would you? So why chose a subcontractor that way?
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FeaturesFun in the sun
Greenhill Jenner Architects took a deprived nursery school in Northamptonshire, added a sandpit and an Italianate campanile and – hey presto! – it's Calabria meets Palm Beach
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Comment
No special treatment for Wales
I was appalled, but not surprised, to read Alun Cairns' comments in your news story "Wales wants jobs for the boyos" (21 February, page 16).
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Lesson time
On reading your article about contractors talking to schools (14 February, page 11) I felt compelled to write in and support your argument.