All Building articles in 16 March 2018
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News
Contractor fined £70k after excavation accident
South Yorkshire firm admits health and safety breaches after worker suffers “life-changing” injuries
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Features
Cost update Q4 2017
Price pressures continue to be caused by weak productivity aggravated by Brexit negotiations, while exchange rates improved as the Bank of England prepared to raise interest rates.
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Image of the week: Status symbol
London Central Mosque, built in 1978 in Regent’s Park, has this week received a grade II* listing by Historic England
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Online poll: Balfour back on track?
This week’s poll: What has played the most important part in Balfour Beatty’s turnaround of fortunes?
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Sketch of the week: Making Places, Waltham Forest
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Mo Wong, director at MOCT Studio
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Building Your Future: #InTheSkip
Attitudes, tech, policies, practices: if you hate it, we want to know about it!
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Plans lodged for ‘Cheesegrater 2’ tower
SOM’s 100 Leadenhall Street proposals, drawn up for Hong Kong-based Lai Sun Development
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Comment
Thinking the unthinkable
Ryanair is preparing its customers for a no-deal Brexit by inserting a special clause into its agreements. Does our industry need to be more proactive in recognising Brexit risk?
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Comment
Hansom: Not a good look
While the picture in the Carillion inquiries gets ever muddier – not helped by an excess of Watsons – over at Apple, employees are seeing too clearly for their own good and have the bruises to prove it
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Trailblazers: The Crystal Palace
What buildings from the last 175 years were futuristic in their time, or marked a change in how the industry built?
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Leader: Russian courage
Is Theresa May politically brave enough to implement far-reaching reforms to unseat housebuilders? Well, if she’s prepared to take on Putin, maybe she is
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Thought for Tomorrow: Cities
As part of Building’s 175th anniversary celebrations, we have launched a series in which readers share their visions of how construction could be in 25 years’ time. Here, Matt Goodwin argues that a nuanced approach to urbanisation could transform the capital
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Building Your Future - mapping the challenges
This week, Building launches its “Your Future” campaign as we celebrate our 175th anniversary year
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Building Your Future - get involved!
Building 175 is all about your future working practices. We want to hear from you about your careers, colleagues and businesses. Here’s what you need to know
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Analysis: On the home front
The government has been making loud noises about getting more homes built – so long as it doesn’t have to build them itself, of course – and the revised National Planning Policy Framework is a big part of the plan to galvanise planners and developers into action. Is it going ...
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Building 175: Your future starts here
As Building celebrates its 175-year anniversary, we launch the most significant and comprehensive editorial campaign in the publication’s history
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News
Products supplier hit by Carillion fallout
Alumasc says contractor’s collapse has knocked confidence in sector