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In pictures: How Spurs' stadium now looks, 10 weeks after delay first announced

2018-10-22T06:00:00+01:00By Will Ing

Mace still battling to get work finished as club prepares to give update on opening schedule

Watchdog considers probe into TfL over when it knew Crossrail was going to be late

2018-10-22T11:25:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall

Financial Conduct Authority boss says it is looking into issues raised by London Assembly

Arcadis wins court decision against Amec claim that could have cost it millions

2018-10-22T06:00:00+01:00By Hamish Champ

Landmark ruling caps consultant’s liabilities on 17-year-old problem jobs at £610,000

T&T nabs Jacobs boss for Birmingham infrastructure role

2018-10-22T06:00:00+01:00By Hamish Champ

Tania Flasck to head up consultant’s operation in the city

Gleeds eyes Saudi modular work

2018-10-22T06:00:00+01:00By Will Ing

Job would be firm’s first foray into Saudi Arabia

Ministers extend probe to non-ACM cladding

2018-10-22T06:00:00+01:00By Will Ing

Government set to ban aluminium composite material cladding but looking into other potentially flammable finishes

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Events

Join us for the first ever Building Quiz

2018-10-19T10:45:00+01:00

The quiz will kick off following Building & BD Live on 28 November

Comment

Legal: How to offset the risks of offsite

2018-10-22T11:06:00+01:00By Maeve Gantley

Continuing our series on new technology, Maeve Gantley explains how offsite manufacturing brings specific risks that need to be covered by the contract

Focus

Paul Hackett: Leading the charge for housing change

2018-10-19T06:00:00+01:00By Joey Gardiner

As chair of London housing association group G15, Paul Hackett has plenty he wants to change about housebuilding in the social sector.

Focus

Online poll: Automated innovation
2018-10-18T13:12:00+01:00
This week’s poll: Will autonomous vehicles change the face of the city?
What impact will driverless cars have on our future buildings?
2018-10-17T06:00:00+01:00By Ike Ijeh
How will electric-powered private-hire driverless cars change the way in which we design buildings and utilise land?
Will driverless cars change our urban environment as we know it?
2018-10-16T06:00:00+01:00By Ike Ijeh
Do electric-powered private-hire driverless cars represent the biggest opportunity to redesign our urban environment since the invention of the motor car itself?

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News in pictures

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium White Hart Lane 19.10 (9)

In pictures: How Spurs' stadium now looks, 10 weeks after delay first announced

Image of the week: Bordering on lunacy

Sketch of the week: The Power House in Woking

Woods Bagot and Peddle Thorp's design for 65 Federal Street, Auckland - Harbour view

Hedging bets: Woods Bagot beats Hadid in Auckland tower contest

Suffolk contractor starts on Niall McLoughlin Cambridge uni library

Galliard team unveils more plans to redevelop Birmingham

In pictures: How Spurs' stadium now looks, 10 weeks after delay first announced
Image of the week: Bordering on lunacy
Sketch of the week: The Power House in Woking
Hedging bets: Woods Bagot beats Hadid in Auckland tower contest
Suffolk contractor starts on Niall McLoughlin Cambridge uni library
Galliard team unveils more plans to redevelop Birmingham

Housing Today's 2019 launch: Tell us what you want

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Long reads

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Combustible materials ban: what would it mean?

Top 150 Consultants 2018 - league table

Modular construction: Along the right lines?

Deal or no deal : construction’s post-Brexit future hangs in the balance

Combustible materials ban: what would it mean?
Top 150 Consultants 2018 - league table
Modular construction: Along the right lines?
Deal or no deal : construction’s post-Brexit future hangs in the balance

Communities

Hansom: What’s a man to do?

2018-10-19T06:00:00+01:00By Hansom

This week’s construction gossip: Not only are women refusing to put up with any more nonsense, but now a man can’t even trust his smartphone not to cause offence

Housebuilders' salaries are healthy - but is the market as rosy as it looks?

2018-10-18T06:00:00+01:00By Chloë McCulloch

Despite soaring salaries in the housebuilding sector, there’s an air of nervousness that the government will burst the bubble by scrapping its Help to Buy scheme

Are we creating enough in-depth learning spaces?

2018-10-18T07:51:00+01:00By Helen Groves

Helen Groves says that while universities have great areas where students can work together and interact, they lack spaces to allow quiet immersion in study