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NewsRogers among the beaten firms as Fosters lands Marseille deal
Firm triumphs in competition to extend city’s airport
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NewsIndustry wins government backing for productivity boost
Initiative aimed at improving efficiency of key industries
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NewsQuintain confirms Sisk £211m contract win
Firm is to build 743 build to rent homes at Wembley Park
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NewsLakesmere saga deepens as focus turns to problem jobs
Sister firm McMullen Facades falls into administration and is rescued within the week, as new business poised to take on Crossrail work
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FeaturesGood Employer Guide 2017: Beyond the nine to five
As Brexit uncertainty looks set to constrain employers’ ability to recruit and the skills gap widens, Debika Ray looks at what benefits the best employers are providing this year to keep their offices happy – and full
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CommentThe stress test
There are probably 101 reasons why these large specialist firms have suffered catastrophic problems, with a few major ones front and centre
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CommentWe’re all accountable for skills
The ambition of the CITB reform plan is essential – now the industry itself must step up its game too, if construction’s skills challenges are to be met
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FeaturesCladding sector: Think you've got it covered?
Several cladding firms may have fallen in recent years, but the collapse of Lakesmere this month came as a shock. If this can happen to the biggest firm in the sector – one seemingly in robust health – how worried should the others be?
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NewsPressure increases on Carillion to strike refinancing deal before new man joins
Analysts say debt for equity rescue package now inevitable ahead of Andrew Davies taking over next April
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FeaturesTop Specialist Contractors 2017
While Brexit is a worry, their UK focus means most specialist contractors have less to fear than some, and workloads are healthy for now. But there are concerns about the pipeline ahead, and payment issues are a headache
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NewsBalfour Beatty bags £287m University of Manchester job
UK’s biggest builder lands one of largest one-off HE deals ever let
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NewsWYG issues second profit warning in three months
Poor performance from the firm’s conusltancy services business is weighing it down
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NewsMPs to get say on Palace of Westminster revamp in January
View from the medieval tower of St Mary-at-Lambeth, home of the Garden Museum
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CommentNew ways to attract talent
The findings in this year’s Good Employer Guide provide some answers to the current issues construction is facing today in relation to the attraction and retention of the right people
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NewsIT costs dent profit at Bishopsgate tower architect
Wilkinson Eyre hit by property and subconsultancy hikes
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NewsControversial plans for historic south London street set to be OK'd
Architect’s proposal for historic Roupell Street wins backing of Lambeth planning officers
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NewsAssael named industry’s best employer in annual top 50 roll call
Architects dominate Building’s annual list of top construction employers
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CommentHansom: Lofty visions
This week, I examine a sky forest in Vietnam, a German charity takes the moral high ground with a friendly gesture and the MoA has a delicious idea
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FeaturesOnline poll: Targeting 300,000 homes a year
This week’s poll: Will the funding and incentives the chancellor pledged for housebuilding in the Autumn Budget be enough for him to achieve his 300,000 homes a year target?