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Zaha Hadid lands Black Sea masterplan comp
Practice joins forces with Russian practice Pride TPO to beat Spanish and French-led bids
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Features
Image of the week: Cross purposes
Last weekend the spans were lifted into position for a new 135m-wide public footbridge connecting business campus Chiswick Park to the eponymous tube station in west London
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Grenfell was not designed to provide a safe escape route, say fire services
Counsel for Fire Officers Association suggests staircase was not designed to be safe in a fire
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Features
Sketch of the week: Bartlett Park, Poplar, east London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Archie Bashford, a landscape architect at Levitt Bernstein
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Features
From the archive: 1886
As we look at the Social Value Act and consider whether it will encourage firms to be more sustainable and ethical, we look back to a time where the deserving poor had to rely on the generosity of rich philanthropists
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More details of Carillion's disastrous UK jobs emerge
Firm was facing hit of more than £200m last year alone on road and hospital schemes
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Persimmon pay boss slammed for being unable to tell MPs firm's average pay
The housebuilder was heavily criticised for handing its chief executive Jeff Fairburn a £75m bonus earlier this year.
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Inquiry MPs say Carillion accounts ‘hoodwinked the government’
The chairs of the inquiry into Carillion’s collapse have responded to the National Audit Office’s investigation
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Consultants merge to create £22m turnover firm
Paragon and Bond Davidson will be renamed Paragon this autumn
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Carillion liquidation set to cost the taxpayer £148m, says National Audit Office
Public spending watchdog says it could take years to know final cost
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Government appoints new director general for housing
Jeremy Pocklington will be responsible for helping turn policy into action
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Mitie calls for 'wholesale recalibration' of facilities management industry
Services group warns on industry’s viability after halving annual losses
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Bridge job up for grabs at East Bank cultural quarter
Structure will link site previously known as Olympicopolis with nearby shopping centre
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Cost of former Carillion road job soars
Galliford Try has been appointed as the permanent contractor on the Lincoln scheme
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Comment
Testing times: Public inquiry
The details in Dr Barbara Lane’s report of what went wrong at Grenfell Tower are a sad indictment on the state of some elements of the construction industry
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Carillion collapse claims another contractor
Irish firm Sammon Group goes under after being owed £7m by bust firm
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Construction firms lambasted for “inhumane” silence at Grenfell Inquiry
Counsel for the victims calls out suppliers for failure to comment
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