All Building articles in 2 March 2018
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Features
Tracker: January 2018
The total activity index shows growth but gradual decline is in progress – while the UK regional index is slowly losing momentum
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Features
Online poll: Rising momentum?
This week’s poll: Is the rise of the Momentum group in Labour-controlled councils putting at risk key regeneration schemes?
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Image of the week: Cool runnings
A cold snap has caused disruption to businesses and transport services across the country this week
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Sketch of the week: Old Street Iconic Gateway, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch features Pilbrow Partners’ competition entry for the Old Street Iconic Gateway competition
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Comment
Hansom: Knock knock
While Carillion and its auditors continue to be verbally demolished by MPs, a former residence of mine could prove harder to knock down – while at my new home in Shoreditch, the writing is on the wall
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Comment
Legal: The end of the smash and grab?
Andy Mather and Richard Rowlatt explain a new ruling that will make it harder for contractors to insist on full payment if the employer has failed to issue a valid payment or pay less notice
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Comment
The Elemental Workplace: a unifying framework
Landlords design speculative vanilla base buildings which contractors build and then other contractors fit out to Cat A. But is there another way?
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Features
Carillion... the story so far
Befuddled by the sheer volume of information coming out about Carillion’s collapse? Here’s what we know, what we don’t know and what we still need to know
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Comment
Leader: Backwards momentum
Stunted development plans in north London borough could have implications for developer-local government relationships
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News
Peabody scores Battersea Power Station affordable housing deal
Housing association brought in to work at £9bn redevelopment
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News
Inquiry MPs say Carillion chairman ‘lacked even a tenuous grip on reality’
Damning assessment comes as Morgan Stanley queried whether a proposed rights issue would attract investors
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Features
Joining forces: how UK construction helped after Hurricane Irma
When Hurricane Irma struck the British Virgin Islands last September, the government’s disaster relief effort sprung into action
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News
Experts say government fire safety plan weakens regs
Desktop studies that Hackitt wanted restricted will now be an official route to Building Regs approval
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News
Fitzgerald says Bovis re-jig completed
New boss says housebuilder in ‘much stronger position’ than a year ago
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News
Costain profit up as it waves goodbye to problem PFI job
Firm says Greater Manchester waste deal now in the past
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Eureka moment as Jestico & Whiles OK'd for Nobel lab
Bouygues to carry out work to replace Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory
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Investors next up to face MPs at Carillion collapse hearing
Shareholders expected to flesh out their concerns over the way bust firm was being run