All Building articles in 11 August 2017
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Balfour CEO: Contractors should back off risky PPP schemes
Leo Quinn confirms Balfour is no longer bidding in energy to waste market
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Graham completes work at Liverpool's Anfield shop
Contractor has also won a contract from Highways England for a series of improvement works
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Features
No place like home: Staycations, Part 3
Looking for a vacation without airport stress and high costs? Read the third part of a trip around the UK’s best holiday destinations
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News
Amec Foster Wheeler faces £310m bill to settle asbestos-related claims
The ‘overwhelming majority’ of the cases are from the US and derive from the Foster Wheeler business
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Wild imaginings: Beach huts, Part 2
The humble British beach hut is being reconfigured for the 21st century, as Part 2 of our guide shows
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Comment
Why we must transform
Construction must change its ways. The government may at last be listening to our concerns, but if the sector does not innovate and attract a new breed of young workers, then it is in serious trouble
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Features
No place like home: Staycations, Part 2
Looking for a vacation without airport stress and high costs? Read the second part of a trip around the UK’s best holiday destinations
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News
Work begins to strip unsafe Peckham towers of gas pipes
An investigation by Arup has found that Ledbury Estate tower blocks do not conform with building regulations
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Latest fire test sees first cladding system pass
Three other cladding systems have so far failed the BRE’s combustibility tests
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Amec Foster Wheeler back in profit
Engineering group posts £77m half-year profit but remains under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and US authorities
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Lack of housebuilding stagnating residential sales, RICS reports
Latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey has reported a lack of momentum in housing sales.
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Google's 'exciting' King's Cross HQ given go-ahead
Camden’s planning committee members at last night’s meeting all voted in favour of the scheme
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Plymouth estate to undergo £22m regeneration
Housing association Clarion is to submit plans by early 2018 to transform Barne Barton Estate
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Sketch of the week: London regeneration project
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by architect Patrick Spears of bptw partnership
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Comment
Hansom: Slightly unexpected
An accountant has an unusual selling point, the staff at the Cheesegrater are more healthy than the name of the building suggests and there’s a little bit of love for everyone at the new Postal Museum
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Construction's fortunes: A sea change
Construction’s growth slowdown brings concerns about infrastructure project delays and low margins into sharp focus – and highlights the need for a change of mindset
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Features
No place like home: Staycations, Part 1
Looking for a vacation without airport stress and high costs? Read the first part of a trip around the UK’s best holiday destinations