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BREAKING NEWS
Prince of Wales rebrands his built environment charity
Heir to the throne visits London’s Waterloo to launch the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community
Electrical firms plan to employ fewer skilled workers
Unite accuses contractors of attempting to ‘deskill’ electricians under controversial wage agreement
Mace announces roll out of US cost consultancy business
Division will be based in New York and headed up by new managing director Greg Parker
Shepherd loses first round of High Court case
In a judgement made last week the ruling went against Shepherd, which has launched legal claim against own lawyer Pinsent Masons
RICS fee rise sparks social media backlash
Members took to LinkedIn, Twitter and Building’s website to complain about increased RICS fees and Sean Tompkin’s £98,700 bonus
Ramboll joins chorus of disapproval over schools BREEAM cut plan
Secretary of state for schools receives third letter of outrage this week
2012: Celebrating the Olympic Year
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Market forecast: That sinking feeling
Construction output looks set to fall by 5% in 2012 as new work dries up and the UK, like the rest of Europe, slips back into recession. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon, an AECOM company, reports
Pic of the day
Buro Happold and 3XN unveil Odenplan station entrance
Proposed structure in Stockholm will have curved concrete amphitheatre over underground concourse
Building TV
The UK’s largest zero carbon housing scheme
In 2007 Linden Homes and Affinity Sutton joined forces to build what they say will be the UK’s largest zero carbon housing development
Case studies
Cladding the Dorchester extension: The rich kid next door
When you’re building a hotel for the young and fabulously wealthy, bronze cladding may not sound excessive, but it was still proving beyond the means of the team behind the Dorchester’s new extension project - until they discovered a spray-applied alternative … Building reports
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Appointments
Keepmoat appoints Ian Sutcliffe as chief executive
New boss for social housing firm ahead of Apollo merger
Olympic village man leaves Lend Lease for Mace
Head of environment who oversaw construction of Olympic village will join rival firm Mace
Lydon is latest high-profile name to leave Lend Lease
Former director will join Balfour Beatty as major projects director of commercial work in the construction division
Contracts
Bam wins £20m school job
Havant school is first contract to be awarded under the £4.5bn IESE framework
Morgan Sindall and Apollo bag £200m framework
Consortium will deliver projects for 17 Scottish public sector bodies
Galliford Try lands £40m infrastructure jobs
Works include water contracts in Scotland and Yorkshire
Carillion wins £100m of academies work
Contractor wins work nationwide through the Partnerships for Schools Contractors’ Framework
Case of the week
Jurisdiction and stay of execution: Partner Projects Ltd vs Corinthian Nominees Ltd
This case highlighted the issue of whether an adjudicator can award interest on top of a claim, and when a stay of interest can be granted
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Analysis
Will the Olympics mean other projects in London get delayed?
Traffic restrictions set for the six weeks of the Olympic and Paralympic Games are designed to help cope with unprecedented levels of visitors to the capital. But could London’s other construction projects end up in a jam?
Comment
CPDs
Closing soon - CPD 8: BIM during construction
In the eighth of our regular series of CPD modules, we look at Building Information Modelling throughout the construction process. This module is sponsored by Excitech
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PFI: Long live the reformation
The PFI model is seriously damaged but now isn’t the time to throw the baby out with the bathwater, says Steve Beechey of Wates
The year in tweets: Predictions for 2012
So much to say, so little space to say it in. Alastair Stewart, a temporary convert to cyberspace brevity, tweets his thoughts about the likely shape of the year ahead
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Interviews
Charles McBeath on Ramboll growth: Why stop now?
For Charles McBeath, head of Ramboll UK, the secret to growth is acquisition and last year he doubled the size of his company by acquiring engineering firm Gifford, boosting turnover from £35m to £58m. But that, he tells Building, was just for starters
BIM
URS director leaves to focus on govt BIM roll-out
Mark Bew received an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list
Special report: Bringing in BIM
It’s no longer a question of whether you should adopt BIM, but how. So what are firms doing to persuade employees and supply chains to embrace the technology and get suitable training? Andy Pearson reports
Legal
Challenging awards of public sector work: Hold it right there
In 2009 rules were brought in to make challenging awards of public sector work more effective. Since then a number of cases show how the rules are being applied
White paper
Health White Paper available now
Report offers in-depth guide to opportunities in the health sector over the next four years
Hansom
Hansom: Alternative lifestyle
Imagine a world where Olympic athletes excelled at board games, Britain considered surviving on a diet of ants and huge dogs rode around on top of cars … no, it’s not a bad trip, it’s this week in construction
Digital life
My digital life … Fiona Frost
This iPhone convert gets easily lost in blogs and rates WhatsApp, allowing her to stay in touch with friends and family abroad
Tony Bingham
Choosing an adjudicator: Eleven against twelve
Would you agree to play if the other side had chosen the ref? Neither would this disgruntled architect …
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