All Building articles in 02 May 2014 – Page 3
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This week in … 1990
The 4 May 1990 issue of Building carried an article about the scarily behind-schedule construction work on the World Cup stadiums in Italy …
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Rate of construction recovery slows
Latest construction PMI survey finds recovery continued in April, albeit at a slower rate than over the past six months
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Image of the week: Workers’ Memorial Day
Trade union Ucatt pays tribute to workers who have lost their lives on sites this year
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Scape launches £1.5bn infrastructure framework
Sole contractor sought for new framework to focus on local civil engineering projects, including flood defence work
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Team picked for £1.5bn Aylesbury Estate redevelopment
Architects chosen to masterplan and design first phase of massive regeneration scheme
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Witnesses: Remember it like it was yesterday?
Judges and dispute deciders should place little reliance on what witnesses ‘recall’ happened, as our minds forget and distort events over time - however vividly we think we remember
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Hansom: A walk on the wildside
Something fishy is going on in Gibraltar and an otter takes against HS2, but birds and ready mix concrete find themselves oddly at ease with each other - plus, the future has hoverbuses but no tea breaks
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Cité Musicale: In tune with Paris
Construction has begun on an international music hub in the French capital
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Panama Canal project: Troubled waters
With an estimated $1.6bn shortfall and no adequate remedy in the contract, the Panama Canal project shows that a low tender price and transferred risk don’t make for plain sailing
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Fundamental breach: Calling time
If you think the other party to your contract has committed a fundamental breach, you better be sure before you lock the site gates behind them - as you could be committing one yourself
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Big six contractors facing increasing cash flow pressure
Analysis shows UK’s biggest contractors now have an aggregate net debt of £328m
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EFA needs to go back to school on costs
The news that contractor Bam has been dropped from five London schools worth almost £50m, after, it is understood, claiming it could not deliver two of them without making a loss, has thrown the problem of cost inflation firmly into focus
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Google’s review of £650m King’s Cross HQ ‘could take two years’
Exclusive: Project caught up in global design review of tech giant’s planned large-scale developments and is expected to be re-tendered
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Aecom wins key role on UK Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015
Consultant will work with creative team behind winning design, to be announced later this month
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Walking the talk
For Balfour Beatty, sustainability isn’t a boardroom buzzword – it’s a rigorously monitored set of targets pursued by every member of its workforce and brought to bear on schemes up and down the country
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The pressure of payment reform
The launch last week of a new payment charter adds to the legitmate pressure on contractors to pay their subbies promptly. But this pressure could also starve contractors of the cash they need to invest, push up prices, and even push some firms over the edge
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Industry ‘remains in recovery’, cautions Mace
Firm’s cost consultancy arm warns that ‘that optimism needs to be backed up by workloads’
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Engineering giant Jacobs to restructure European business
Firm looks to reduce costs following £760m acquisition of Australian consultant Sinclair Knight Merz
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Bam dropped from £50m London schools package
Exclusive: Disagreement over pricing sees Education Funding Agency remove five London priority schools from firm
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