All Building articles in 11 January 2019
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Council agrees deal for Lendlease’s £1.9bn Birmingham Smithfield scheme
City council named Lendlease as its preferred partner back in January 2019
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Comment
How is your organisation preparing for Brexit? Anonymous reader responses
As part of our reader survey last month, we asked respondents to tell us what actions they had already taken in preparation for Brexit.
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"We are setting up in the EU" - How is your organisation preparing for Brexit?
As part of our reader survey last month, we asked respondents to tell us what actions they had already taken in preparation for Brexit. Here is one anonymous reader’s response
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Features
Building intelligence: Q3 2018
Construction output is rising, driven largely by housing, both public and private, but public work is slipping – and the offices market is likely to be hit hardest by Brexit
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Comment
Let's stop talking about low margins - we're missing the point
Contractors and others highlight profit margin as an indicator of corporate performance when what we should really be talking about is a firm’s return on capital
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Features
Tracker: November 2018
Total activity continued to rise steadily but without accelerating, while orders and tender enquiries lost some growth momentum but remained buoyant. Experian Economics reports
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Online poll: Are you optimistic for 2019?
This week’s poll: How optimistic are you for the year ahead?
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Comment
The kindness of strangers
If you make a new year’s resolution, let it be to do more to promote understanding and compassion for those experiencing mental illness, says Lesley Hammond
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How to win the war on talent
Employers need to offer much more than competence training - there’s another way to maximuse apprenticeship levy allowances to invest in new talent
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Dispute resolution after Brexit
Claire Stockford, Iain Drummond and Caitlin McLean of Shepherd and Wedderburn weigh Brexit’s implications for dispute resolution
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Features
Image of the week: Deep crust
A Dutch dredging firm this week began deepening the harbour of Ramsgate in Kent to turn the seaside port into a ‘second Dover’ in readiness for a no-deal Brexit. The government has also awarded a £13.8m ferry service contract to operate between Ramsgate and Ostend in Belgium to Seaborne Freight, ...
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Comment
Construction industry gossip: We fear change
The Bloomberg building marks climate change with a melting iceberg and fans of brutalism are saddened at a coming demolition
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Comment
Why we need to factor the millennial into the evolution of the high street
The power of the millennial to disrupt the market is extraordinary and town planning policy is powerless to prevent this, writes Joanna Bassett
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Features
From the archive: 2009 - That was the future that was
While we modern folk fret about Brexit, in 1999 they had their own problems: the dreaded “Millennium Bug”
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Sketch of the week: International bank HQ, Chennai, India
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Pedro Loureiro, an architectural illustrators in Broadway Malyan’s Lisbon studio
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News
Masterplanners on the blocks for Commonwealth Games stadium job
Birmingham council set to appoint masterplanner on £70m scheme ‘within weeks’
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News
Palace of Westminster refurb will not become a 'money pit', MPs told
MPs and peers will move into temporary accommodation ‘around 2025’, committee hears
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Uefa says it's still 'possible' Spurs could play Champions League ties at new ground this season
Governing body throws north London club a lifeline about hosting glamour tie at new home
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Council asks Interserve to make back-up plan for its own collapse
Sandwell concerned about potential impact on schools jobs if contractor goes bust
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Aecom team wins Moorfields Eye Hospital design competition
Bid with Penoyre Prasad and White Arkitekter pips RSHP, Bennetts, Hopkins and others for £200m facility