All Building articles in 19 January 2018
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Features
Carillion one year on: how the contractor's collapse unfolded
Carillion, a former giant in construction, went bust one year ago today. We look back on a story that shook the sector 12 months ago through our coverage on the day, and through the numbers that accounted for its collapse
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News
Hitachi poised to pull out of Wylfa nuclear build
Decision would shred government’s ambition to deliver a series of new nuclear plants
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News
Transformation of former US embassy begins with job award to Careys
Firm beat rival McGee to pick up demolition and enabling works
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News
Van Elle prepares to write off £1.6m following Carillion collapse
Piling specialist says contractor’s implosion will hit its expected order book
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News
Kier draws a line under overseas legacy work as it eyes double digit profit hike
Firm will announce interim results in March
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News
Carillion job at £700m Birmingham scheme still stuck after firm's collapse
Collapsed firm was working on new office block at city’s Paradise development
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Comment
Barometer: broadly flat figures
In an era of strong growth around the globe, the UK economic data should be less equivocal than it currently is
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Comment
CPA/Barbour ABI Index: A winter chill
Small falls highlight the usual slowdown at the end of the year, but there were wildly different fortunes across the different construction sectors
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News
Kier beats Balfour Beatty to top spot for all work in 2017
Contractor also tops tables for December work, with Bowmer Kirkland in second place for the month
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Comment
Legal blog: What should Carillion subcontractors do next?
Firms owed money by the failed contractor need to act quickly to have any hope of recovering any money
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Features
Projects: Tales from the riverbank
On a tight site whose logistical challenges include four London Underground tunnels, the £1.5bn Southbank Place is rapidly taking shape, using BIM and prefabrication to push the project along
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Features
Cost model: Garden towns and villages
The government is calling for a new generation of garden towns and villages to ease the housing crisis. More sophisticated masterplanning approaches are needed to deliver these complicated projects
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Archive Titles
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News
Keltbray starts at site of future Prussian Blue tower
Scheme at 6-8 Bishopsgate will be 50 storeys tall
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Comment
Operating on a knife edge
The recent and tragic news about Carillion underscores how many principle contractors are operating on knife-edge margins, says Build UK’s Mark Castle
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News
Carillion's Network Rail employees given April pay guarantee
Bust firm was rail group’s second biggest maintenance contractor
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News
More than 1,300 join Facebook support group set up by Carillion staff
Social media groups formed to help find jobs
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Features
Bill Hocking: Dealer's choice
Bill Hocking, boss of Galliford Try’s construction arm, might have felt he’d been dealt a bad hand when he took over the job two years ago, but now that he holds all the cards, he’s moved to reduce the risk the firm takes on