Bidders prepare to pounce on stricken Connaught
Social housing contractor in crisis talks with banks as suppliers report tenfold rise in late payments
Market forecast: On the level
The brief rise in tender prices is over but so, it seems, are the sharp falls that characterised last year. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon reports
The tracker: Back to reality
Hopes that increased activity at the start of the year would continue into the summer were dashed as the activity index fell to a six-month low
Guide to Building Regulations
Essential need-know facts about Parts A to P of the Building Regs
Mixed greens
To a minister in Whitehall, bringing forward regs changes by a year may not seem like much of a leap. But for firms in the real world, it promises massive disruption
Two years to go to London 2012
Olympic officials and athletes tour Olympic Park to view construction progress
Contracts
Vinci to replace Kier on £10m Heathrow T3 refurb
Contractor is replaced ’by mutual consent’ with BAA after project ’not delivered as hoped’
Vinci wins £16.5m Gatwick airport job
Gatwick airport has awarded a new contract to redevelop its South Terminal to Vinci
Shepherd wins £16.5m Liverpool University contract
Six hundred researchers will work at Apex facility which will be completed by October 2011
Balfour Beatty wins £100m highways contract in Southampton
Balfour Beatty Workplace scoops 10-year contract for managing highways for Southampton City council
cuckoo
Mike Plymsol saw this skywalker at the 2,600m summit of the Jakobshorn mountain in Switzerland
Building TV
Video: London 2012 venues under construction
Watch Tim Crocker’s stunning film of London’s 2012 Olympic venues
Brickonomics
Nationwide joins other indexes to show house prices falling
House prices may be on the slide but there shouldn't be another collapse
Global news
Arup, Mott and Balfour on PM's Indian trade trip
Bosses from Balfour Beatty, Mott McDonald and Arup are among 39 industry leaders on David Cameron’s trade delegation to India
Giant Brazilian mega-church gains planning approval
Rogério Silva de Araújo’s 55m-tall design will seat 10,000 worshippers
Hopkins to stay in Dubai despite legal wrangle
Hopkins Architects is to keep its office in Dubai, despite being embroiled in a 30m dirhams (£5.4m) legal battle with state-owned developer Dubai Properties and having little work in the emirate
Tony Bingham
Relationship problems
If an adjudicator has a prior connection with one of the advocates arguing a case, does that constitute ’apparent bias’? Here’s what the court had to say …
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Passivhaus: What's in a name?
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One step change at a time
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Cost model
Cost model: Shopping centre refurbs
Many shopping centres hit by the recession need to reposition themselves to be fit for the upturn.
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