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NewsKier bags £19m Shakespeare theatre contract
Shakespeare North Playhouse due for completion in April 2020
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NewsContractors fret after key survey says infrastructure workloads go into reverse
Last three months of 2017 reveal first decline in four years, CECA warns
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CommentLegal: Claiming for remedial work
If remedial works are needed, what steps should be taken to recover the costs?
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NewsMPs vote to leave Parliament during £3.5bn revamp
Peers expected to follow suit with work set to start in 2025
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NewsG&T bags role on £1bn revamp of west London shopping centre
Latest version of the scheme is back in with planners for approval
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CommentCase in focus: Performance bonds
Was the guarantor liable under a bond where the contractor became insolvent following termination of the contract?
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NewsStaff suspended as SIG says profits inflated by more than £6m
Discovery made following allegations by whistleblower
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FeaturesOnline poll: Westminster works
This week’s poll: Should MPs move out of the Palace of Westminster to allow essential works to carried out?
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NewsHighways England appoints permanent major projects boss
Peter Mumford spent nearly 20 years at a number of construction consultancies
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FeaturesLooking back to 2005
This week’s archive piece looks back at brutalist parking blocks, “monstrosities”, and a Michael Caine-inspired script starring a besuited architect
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NewsRival consultants replace Aecom at second Shardette
Firm was acting as QS and project manager on the scheme
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FeaturesCarillion: Questions to be answered
Ahead of next week’s Select Committee grilling of Carillion’s directors, Joey Gardiner delves into the £5bn contractor’s accounting practices and how it got itself into such an unholy mess
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CommentCarillion: the end of public-private partnerships?
The failure of the UK’s second largest construction company has led to considerable scrutiny of the way that public services are contracted out to private sector businesses - could this signal the beginning of the end?
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FeaturesMarket review: Falling forecasts
Declines in productivity and real wages, along with the uncertainty around Brexit, are driving down growth forecasts. But only one economic sector actually shrank in Q3 2017 - construction
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CommentBrownfield Registers have come up short
The creation of Brownfield Land Registers is part of the government’s drive for new homes - but is it working fast enough?
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NewsJames Wates to chair corporate governance group
Government sets up group to oversee how large private companies are run
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CommentBrownfield Land Registers – positive in principle, lacking in substance
Homes England launched with fanfare this month, announcing a series of core objectives, both new and invigorated policies intended to get housebuilders on site and start reducing the country’s housing shortfall. The newly introduced Brownfield Land Registers are one such policy. However, if something sounds too good to be ...
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NewsCrossrail housing boost exceeds expectations, says study
Around 180,000 homes are predicted to be built along the line by 2026