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CommentConstruction industry gossip: It's all in the timing
This week’s construction gossip: Not only are women refusing to put up with any more nonsense, but now a man can’t even trust his smartphone not to cause offence
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NewsNew images of Birmingham HS2 station revealed
A design team of WSP, Grimshaw Architects, Glenn Howells Architects and landscape practice Grant Associates is working on the scheme
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CommentWorried about the skills shortage? Try employing former military personnel
Don’t offer jobs to former service men and women out of pity; employ them because they are competent, ambitious, hardworking and quick to adapt
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CommentBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018
We have taken a fresh approach in this year’s Good Employer Guide, deliberately focusing on specific workplace initiatives designed to improve staff’s daily lives and, by extension, business performance
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: Training initiative category
The companies in the training initiative category include NG Bailey and Rider Levett Bucknall
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: Recruitment, outreach and inclusion category
The companies in the inclusion category include Henry Riley and Pozzoni Architecture
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: Connection and communication category
The companies in the communication category include AA Projects and Alinea Consulting
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: Flexible working and parental policies category
The companies in the flexible working category include HLM Architects and HTA Design
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: Wellbeing category
The companies in the wellbeing category include Assael Architecture and Graham
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: listings
Building Good Employer Guide 2018: key Building Good Employer Guide 2018 CompanyCategoriesFull time UK employeesMax. holiday (days)Training hours per person per yearFemale non-admin staffStaff from non-white ethnic backgroundsSabbaticalsWork abroadEntry-level training schemePrivate healthcareEnhanced maternity benefitsEnhanced paternity benefits AA Projects Communication 78 30 33 12% ...
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Learmonth Terrace, Edinburgh
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Hannah Brownlie, research and business development manager at Assael Architecture
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: methodology
Readers of Building, registered users of building.co.uk and other industry firms were invited to take part in the selection process for the Good Employer Guide 2018 through a call for entries published in print, online and via email. The category was open to any ...
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2011 - good employers
As Building’s Good Employer Guide is published, we look back to the suggestions posed in 2011 advising on keeping your workforce happy
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NewsMace rejigs fit-out business after slump in workloads last year
Firm saw 2017 income crash by half
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FeaturesWhy is high finance so interested in affordable housing?
Oliver Letwin’s review into the speed at which homes are built calls for greater diversity of design, size and tenure. Investors seem keen to get involved
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CommentDoes progress on the Brexit process match construction's priorities?
With Brexit already taking its toll on construction’s workforce, Andrew Stunell says we have to act with speed to mitigate the worst effects of this political folly
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NewsV&A reveals images of its new centres in east London
The Stratford-based V A East will open in 2023
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CommentA country manor house conspiracy
Shenanigans by two brothers fixing up a fancy house highlights the risks of working for undercapitalised companies