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Brexit agreement 'disastrous' for construction, say industry insiders

2018-11-16T07:00:00+00:00By Jordan Marshall

The proposal, which has already prompted the resigntion of two senior cabinet ministers, could cause “an unprecedented skills deficit”

Lendlease bags Great Portland Estates' £59m Oxford Street job

2018-11-16T07:00:00+00:00By Jordan Marshall

The project is expected to complete in 2021

Former T&T director becomes Heathrow exec for expansion

2018-11-16T07:00:00+00:00By Will Ing

Airport to unveil masterplan in 2019

Zaha Hadid wins place on Russian neighbourhood scheme

2018-11-16T07:00:00+00:00By Hamish Champ

UK practice part of teams building huge new neighbourhood west of Moscow

HKA chosen to assess Mexico's BIM capability

2018-11-16T07:00:00+00:00By Jordan Marshall

Consultant picked by British Embassy to work on its Future Cities programme

Jittery investors tell Interserve to quit Durham uni scheme

2018-11-15T07:00:00+00:00By Will Ing

Financiers worried by 50 year length of struggling firm’s contract

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Building Awards 2018: Personality of the Year

2018-11-16T07:00:00+00:00

Read about this year’s winner of the Personality of the Year Award

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Construction industry gossip: Awkward questions

2018-11-16T07:00:00+00:00By Hansom

Clients experiment with a Cold War approach to contractors’ broken promises, and Persimmon struggles to find a new boss unembarrassed by its own largesse

Building Awards 2018 winners

Building Awards 2018: Personality of the Year
Building Awards 2018: CEO of the Year
Building Awards 2018: Female leadership award
Building Awards 2018: Good Employer Guide Award
Building Awards 2018: Building Magazine Project of the Year
Building Awards 2018: Major Contractor of the Year (over £300m)
Building Awards 2018: Construction Consultant/Surveyor of the Year (more than 100 staff)
Building Awards 2018: Construction Client of the Year
Building Awards 2018: Construction Consultant/Surveyor of the Year (fewer than 100 staff)
Building Awards 2018: Architectural Practice of the Year

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Projects: Heatherwick's Coal Drops Yard

Contractors' Salary Survey 2018: Ready for the off

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Will virtual reality spark the BIM revolution we've been waiting for?

Why is high finance so interested in affordable housing?

BIM survey 2018: The rise and rise of BIM

Will driverless cars change our urban environment as we know it?

Is this the end of the road for Help to Buy?

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Combustible materials ban: what would it mean?

Top 150 Consultants 2018 - league table

Projects: Heatherwick's Coal Drops Yard
Contractors' Salary Survey 2018: Ready for the off
Will virtual reality spark the BIM revolution we've been waiting for?
Why is high finance so interested in affordable housing?
BIM survey 2018: The rise and rise of BIM
Will driverless cars change our urban environment as we know it?
Is this the end of the road for Help to Buy?
Combustible materials ban: what would it mean?
Top 150 Consultants 2018 - league table

Brexit: the stakes are too high not to shake our bad habits

2018-11-15T07:00:00+00:00By Mark Farmer

We are not going to meet the economic shock of Brexit by building in the way we’ve always done. We have to embrace radical change

Legal: The scariness of vicariousness

2018-11-15T07:00:00+00:00By James Bessey

The courts have held an employer liable for a rogue data breach by an employee – although the company broke no rules. James Bessey explains why

Talent on the move: there's a tug of war for skills in the contractor market

2018-11-14T07:00:00+00:00

Will we have enough of the right people to build our projects to the right standards and at the right price?

It’s OK not to be OK. But how do we make people OK?

2018-11-13T14:01:00+00:00By Heather Beach

With men making up the vast majority of the construction industry, a fair conclusion is that it is male behaviours around mental health that most need to be tackled: by training people in non-judgmental listening and saying it is “OK not to be OK”.

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