All Building articles in 19 April 2024
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Getting serious on serial disputes
Tony Bingham considers the subtleties of serial adjudications and when an adjudicator is bound by what was decided last time around
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We’re a nation of NEETs. Something must be done
The UK has one of the worst productivity rates in Europe and we need to get more people working. Who will take ownership of this national tragedy, asks Richard Steer
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Essential law: Termination, part four
As part of our essential law series, Patricia Nathan-Amissah and Mark Barley consider whether you can terminate under common law and under the contract simultaneously
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Election focus 2024: policy tracker
Building’s continually-updated policy tracker will keep you up to speed on the latest pledges and announcements made by the parties in the run up to polling day
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5 minutes with … Anna Lisa McSweeney at White Arkitekter
The firm’s UK head of sustainability on moving mountains and problem-solving, sharing responsibility and travelling as much as possible on foot
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Addressing construction productivity challenges in the East of England
Our first Building the Future Think Tank regional roundtable for 2024 was held in Cambridge last month, with industry experts coming together to brainstorm ways to meet the productivity challenge in the East of England. Jordan Marshall reports
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More Osborne firms set to go into administration
Firm set up in 1966 set to formally appoint administrator RSM this week
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Balance of power shifts as contractors step away from bids
With margins increasingly at the top of businesses’ agendas, firms are no longer prepared to price anything and everything, writes Kelly Boorman
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Osborne on the brink as firm set to appoint administrators
Restructuring specialist RSM expected to take over running of company set up in 1966
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Waugh Thistleton gets OK for revised timber-frame office building in Maidenhead
Work part of ongoing work in middle of Berkshire town
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Building Digital Edition: April 2024
Fashion statement: London College of Fashion brings its disparate disciplines under one roof – and does it in style
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Construction industry gossip: housing block naming conundrum, cycle lane claims and a unique footy challenge
The latest chatter around the industry
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Core Five flags up worries over who will build major projects
Limited number of firms bidding jobs above £200m sending costs north, QS warns
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McAlpine signs on dotted line for British Land tower in City
2 Finsbury Avenue building due to finish in 2027
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Façade contractors won’t bid jobs for firms with ‘shakier’ credit ratings, Exigere warns
Cost consultant says wary firms turning down chance to bid schemes becasue of worried over viability of schemes and builders
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String of hold-ups hit £16m east London school and leisure centre job
Problems include asbestos, obstructions in the ground and ‘performance issues’ with structural engineer
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AHMM apart-hotel plan sent in to east London council
Proposal will include 22-storey block along with office and residential space
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Fashion statement … London college becomes first to make its new home on the waterfront
The London College of Fashion has brought its six separate sites under one roof for the first time in more than 100 years. Tom Lane reports
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Was Angela Rayner right to buy?
The shadow levelling-up secretary has taken flak for exercising her right to buy, but Labour has a long history of dalliance with the concept of selling council homes, writes Ben Flatman
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City’s Museum of London plans ‘completely at odds’ with its own carbon policy, heritage group says
Square Mile councillors voted to approve Diller Scofidio & Renfro scheme this morning following intervention by Michael Gove