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FeaturesCan contractors cope with payment practice reforms?
Main contractors are under pressure to reform their payment practices, but will speeding up payments push more of them to the brink?
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NewsMoD land dispute could add £350m to parliament estate’s bill
Parliamentary report reveals defence department’s “refusal to engage” could lead to decant of MPs and peers being pushed back to 2028
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CommentIs Brexit inadvertently taking the industry closer to Latham’s vision?
Brexit’s unusual visibility is forcing a different approach to inflationary risk management, writes Mace Cost Consultancy’s Steven Mason
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CommentClients drive change – and the government is the biggest of them all
Our industry is collaborating more, but what’s really needed is for clients to drive change in the supply chain, writes Turner Townsend’s Bill McElroy
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NewsDepartment not using project bank accounts at all on education framework, FOI reveals
But DfE says project accounts were trialled and found to be “unsuitable” for its projects
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FeaturesOnline poll: Is Interserve's administration symptomatic of the sector?
This week’s poll: Is Interserve’s fall symptomatic of a broken contracting model?
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NewsWates blames Brexit for fall in construction turnover
Firm saw a 9% drop in revenue at its construction business
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NewsPersimmon homebuyers set to hold back cash to deal with snags
Housebuilder’s customers will be able to hold an average retention of £3,600
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NewsVinci lined up for £100m UCL East contract
Contractor chosen to deliver second building in university’s new Stratford campus
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2008 - Interserve boss bullish
Embattled Interserve once had some serious bragging rights – but perhaps more caution would have come in handy
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NewsBBC's Belfast base set for £25m makeover
Public broadcaster looking for contractor to transform its Northern Irish HQ
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CommentTime at Large: Time for a rethink
The orthodox view on how employer delay affects its entitlement to damages has been shown to be quite wrong
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FeaturesImage of the week: Ups and downs
Last week saw the opening of Heatherwick Studio’s Vessel, the $200m centrepiece to New York’s $25bn Hudson Yards scheme
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NewsPlan to transform Concorde airfield into new community cleared for take-off
The Bristol scheme has been designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
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CommentScope of delay-related losses
Philip Duffield on an important ruling allowing recovery of delay losses in addition to liquidated damages
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CommentInterserve administration: do main contractors need rescuing from themselves?
Interserve continues for now, while Andrew Davies takes the helm at Kier
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FeaturesLife after Help to Buy
After six years of cheap loans for homebuyers, Help to Buy is being wound down. How will housebuilders cope with the change?
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NewsInterserve administration gets minister’s blessing
Prepack that prevented total collapse has ‘considerably strengthened’ contractor’s position, says Oliver Dowden
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NewsTfL takes £600m hit from Crossrail delay
Transport authority is “assuming” construction costs will not grow beyond the extra funding agreed last December
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NewsCabinet minister takes swipe at Interserve's rebel shareholders
‘Greedy capitalists,’ felled the business