All Building articles in 14 February 2020
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News
AHMM scales back plans for IBM building makeover
Practice tables ‘sensitive’ restoration and upgrade after brutalist South Bank offices get grade II listing
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Features
Projects: One Bishopsgate Plaza, London
The newly rebranded One Bishopsgate Plaza brings rare residential space to the City of London’s Eastern Cluster
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Market forecast: Output rises
New work output expanded in the latest quarter to a year-on-year figure of 4%
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What works: Helping staff go greener at home
If firms are serious about reducing their carbon footprint, they must consider how their workers behave at home as well as in the office
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Comment
Government and industry must bridge the gap to apprentices
Last week was national apprenticeship week, but construction numbers are falling at an alarming rate
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Comment
Construction industry gossip: Noise at Heathrow consultation and Dominic Raab abroad
Gossip on a noisy Heathrow third runway consultation, a dozen creme eggs and forced Fun at Work Day
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Comment
5 minutes with … Lee Priddle, director, Pick Everard
Lee Priddle tells Building about playing Lego as a child, Lichfield cathedral and his favourite engineering feat
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Comment
HS2 and the Chinese connection
Boris Johnson gave Europe’s largest rail project the nod this week but he still has cost concerns, which makes a proposal from a Chinese company all the more interesting
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Chinese firm offers to build HS2 and save ‘tens of billions’
CRCC will work with UK government ‘if necessary’
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Comment
Civil Procedure Rules: Expert witness, not hired gun
Kate Onions and Laura Taylor on the due diligence solicitors must exercise in engaging an expert witness
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Features
Sketch of the week: Stari Most, Bosnia & Herzegovina
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Paul Mitchell of Paul Mitchell Co
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What does construction want from the 2020 strategy?
What does the industry want from Whitehall, and how can the government achieve its five-year ambitions of reform?
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Comment
Payments in construction: Find every milestone
When setting out staged payments in terms of milestones rather than value, take good care with the wording
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Comment
Post-Brexit, let’s make the best of a booming market
A new era and decade herald fresh opportunities, but environmental impact must continue to be at the top of the industry’s agenda
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News
Cut costs or lose business, HS2 review tells contractors
Oakervee report says winning civils firms have inflated prices to cover risks
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News
Boris Johnson lays into HS2 management as he gives thumbs-up to £100bn scheme
Railway's management structure in line for overhaul
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Construction activity grows despite political chaos
New orders up by 4.4% in final three months of 2019
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News
Work at Crossrail's western stations 'at risk of delay'
Hochtief's work at Hayes Harlington and Southall could run into 2021
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Liverpool developer at centre of police probe promises update on stalled jobs
Manchester contractor Vermont has stopped work while investigation carried out