All Building articles in 13 October 2017
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Comment
Planning for the right homes in the right places
How has government responded to the white paper and consultation on assessing housing need and how effective do its proposals look?
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News
Swedish firm buys stake in Hilson Moran
Consultant already has a holding in structural engineer AKT II
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News
Mace boss slams government failure on apprenticeships
Two-thirds of construction courses await approval, barring firms from spending new training levy on them
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Comment
Modern times
One year on from the Farmer Review, have the report’s conclusions been taken to heart by the sector, and by its biggest client, the government?
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Features
Farmer Review one year on - how has the industry responded?
A year on from Mark Farmer’s dramatic warning that construction must modernise or die, how has the industry responded to the challenge?
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Features
Sketch of the week: Duke of York Restaurant, King's Road
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Alan Dempsey, founding director at Nex Architecture
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Comment
Hansom: Voicing dissent
A poet takes a verbal swipe at a developer, we bemoan the lack of boozers on new housing developments and have cause to doubt a ‘sporting great’
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Comment
Modernise or Die: one year on
The author of last year’s construction review considers how things have changed since then and reveals what he thinks about the industry now
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Features
Online poll: CITB reform
Do you think the CITB can reform enough to justify its renewed levy?
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News
Architect eyes regions as London hit by Brexit blues
AHR said turnover and profit slumped following last year’s vote to leave EU
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Features
Image of the week: Walk and talk
A ‘Smart Crossing’ prototype from Umbrellium, trialled at a tv studio in south-west London this week, could be the future of road safety
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News
Go-ahead for new homes in south London conservation area
Scheme will also replace a warehouse with a new retail offering
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Comment
Legal blog: Ways of escape - undoing PFI
Steven Carey wonders how Labour’s proposal to bring PFI schemes back ‘in house’ could possibly be implemented
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Features
Party conferences 2017 round-up: home truths
Did last week’s Conservative Party conference do enough to persuade the industry that the government has what it takes to solve the housing crisis?
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News
Construction leads inaugural T-level qualifications
Construction one of three areas initially covered in £500m government skills investment
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Comment
Co-creating a buzz
A trip to one of the strangest spectacles on Earth shows how exciting construction can be when done in collaboration with the culture it springs from
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News
MPs slam Magnox procurement process
PCA chair joins National Audit Office’s condemnation of “fundamental failure” around nuclear sites’ decommissioning contract
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News
New 'super court' building proposed for City of London
The multi-million pound development would replace all of the City’s current court services, with the exception of the Old Bailey
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Comment
Dealing with time extensions: avoiding the pitfalls
In construction, time is money. An extra expense for both the client and the contractor can often lead to disputes.