All Building articles in 1 August 2014 – Page 3
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Comment
Keeping the cash flowing
The fair payment charter is clearly going to need some teeth and enforcement powers but who the teeth will belong to and what the enforcement measures will look like remain to be seen
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Comment
The Green Deal: Are we back at square one?
The sector must capitalise on customer interest now that the £120m government incentive has closed
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Features
This week in 1974
Newly elected RIBA vice-president Sydney Champan wrote a column challenging the abandonment of plans for the Thames Estuary airport in Building, 2 August 1974
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Features
Agenda 15: What you said
Building has been asking the construction industry what policies the next UK government needs to adopt - here we review your responses
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News
Construction appointments: 1 August 2014
Mite, Parsons Brinckerhoff and CBRE are among the firms and organisations announcing promotions and appointments
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News
Hurley Palmer Flatt reports pre-tax loss of over £500,000
Engineer’s accounts also show that it broke banking covenants in 18 months up to September 2013
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Comment
Different ways to shorten the skills gap
A reader responds to Simon Rawlinson’s column with her own ideas about how to tackle the skills shortage
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Comment
A failure to plan
If housing is a long-term priority for the UK, the planning system does not recognise it
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Features
The sum of their parts: Mergers and acquisitions
There’s no guarantee that mergers will work out for the companies involved - we look at four of construction’s biggest deals
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News
Industry sees risk and opportunities in Balfour-Carillion merger
Industry figures surprised by merger talks but can see both pros and cons for potential mega-contractor’s competitors
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Comment
Balfour and Carillion - deal or no deal?
What would be the potential pros and cons for the industry if this massive merger were to go through?
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News
Carillion and Balfour would be ‘major player’
Industry reacts with surprise at prospect of £14bn-turnover construction giant
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News
Infographic: Balfour Beatty and Carillion mega-merger
See our guide to the proposed merger between the two UK contracting giants
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News
Revealed: Balfour and Carillion first held merger talks in 2011
Exclusive: Last week’s approach by Carillion is actually the second time the two construction giants have discussed joining forces
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Comment
Hansom: Verse and worse
Poetry (of a kind) wins the day for WSP, placemaking finds its place (on the coffee table), Ken doll’s private bits get a once over, Germany beats Argentina (again) and Didcot A power station is blown up out of all proportion
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Features
Zaha Hadid: Softbridge Project, Oxford
The groves of academe have been buzzing with debate about Zaha Hadid’s Softbridge project, now on site at St Anthony’s college, Oxford. But for Bam’s engineering team constructing its cylindrical form in a desperately constrained site was an education in itself
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Comment
What a waste of talent
Construction badly needs people with skills yet is failing to appeal both to those who have no experience of work and to those who are drawn to other industries
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Features
Tracker: June 2014
Positive signs as the construction activity index remains unchanged at 57, while, at the sector level, both non-residential and civil engineering experience boosts. Experian Economics reports
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Comment
Robin and Barbara Bache and others vs Zurich Insurance Limited: Interpretation of insurance contracts
Zurich’s arguments on the meaning of “fails to complete the construction” in the policy were rejected by the court because they ran against the commercial reality of the purpose of the policy
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Comment
Set-off: Know the setbacks
Set-off is a term that is regularly heard in the construction industry, but does everyone know exactly what it means?
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