All Building articles in 09 March 2012 – Page 4
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Dicing with disaster
Refusing to pay an adjudicator’s award because you think it will be overturned further down the road can be a dangerous and expensive game
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Pension funds set to deliver on infrastructure plan
Institutional investors eye January 2013 launch date for new infrastructure investment vehicle
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Public procurement decisions and EC rules
The unfair treatment of a Scottish council tenderer raises the question of whether EC procurement rules apply if the contract is of no interest to parties outside the UK
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New procurement strategies and legal contracts
The government’s plan to become a smarter client is coming into clearer focus with the publication of three procurement models, to be trialled alongside three different contracts
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Technical colleges work at risk
Government’s downgrading of vocational education puts £750m pipeline of work building colleges at risk
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University Technical Colleges: Dumbing down
Until January of this year, University Technical Colleges were fast gaining favour as a way of attracting new talent into our industry. Then, out of the blue, education secretary Michael Gove downgraded vocational qualifications, putting the feasibility of the programme in question. Building asks whether the government is making a ...
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New FMB boss sets out plans
Brian Berry says association will focus on ‘driving up standards’ among SME builders
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Wonders & blunders with Rod Taylor
For Rod Taylor the sense of space in Rome’s Pantheon is awe-inspiring, but the empty seats in the second halves of Wembley matches leave the stadium bereft of any atmosphere
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Interim decisions and disputes: The benefit of hindsight
Decisions made during a construction project that are later reviewed can split opinion, with some parties in a dispute asking an adjudicator to ignore what actually went on to happen
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Building owners doing bare minimum for energy changes
Building owners are preparing to do either the minimum or nothing to meet new energy efficiency standards
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Arcadis' Neil McArthur: This is just the start
When Arcadis bought EC Harris last year, it became the 10th largest design consultant in the UK and gained leverage in Asia and the Middle East. Now it’s brought in Neil McArthur to spend a further £100m on acquisitions and turn it into an even bigger global player. Building asked ...
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Planning stats: Residential projects and approvals
One project worth £400m was enough to make Schroder and Stanhope February’s top client
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Refusing to pay an adjudicator's award: Dicing with disaster
Refusing to pay an adjudicator’s award because you think it will be overturned further down the road can be a dangerous and expensive game
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Features
Best supporting acts: The ICE awards
Beneath Londoners’ feet, on their roads and in their stations, the city is undergoing arguably its biggest transformation since the Victorian age. The ICE awards, held last week, celebrated the cream of this current wave of infrastructure projects. Thomas Lane rounds up the winners
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LSE's New Student Centre achieves BREEAM Outstanding
LSE’s New Student Centre is the 17th building worldwide to receive a BREEAM Outstanding rating
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Construction appointments: 9 March 2012
WYG and the Chartered Institute of Housing are among organisations to have made new appointments
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Exclusive: DfE to cut the size of special schools by 20%
Gove urged to reconsider move that disregards two-year-old regulations based on expert research
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Heathrow T2 firms set to earn £60m bonus
Laing O’Rourke and Ferrovial Agroman had bonus written into contract for work on Heathrow terminal
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Construction not to blame for £1.7bn Olympic overspend
Overspend has nothing to do with the ODA according to MPs
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Chelsea FC has 'beautiful' Battersea plan
Kohn Pederson Fox founder tells Mipim audience that scheme will ‘make the most’ of defunct power station