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NewsBuilders score spots on £600m housing frameworks for Wales and South West
Wates, Galliford Try and Lovell among framework winners
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Learmonth Terrace, Edinburgh
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Hannah Brownlie, research and business development manager at Assael Architecture
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CommentBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018
We have taken a fresh approach in this year’s Good Employer Guide, deliberately focusing on specific workplace initiatives designed to improve staff’s daily lives and, by extension, business performance
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2018: Nominees for the inaugural Good Employer Guide Building Award
These 10 companies have been chosen by our judges as the best entrants from each of the five Good Employer Guide award categories. They have been nominated to be the overall winner of the Good Employer Guide award
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: Training initiative category
The companies in the training initiative category include NG Bailey and Rider Levett Bucknall
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: Recruitment, outreach and inclusion category
The companies in the inclusion category include Henry Riley and Pozzoni Architecture
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: Connection and communication category
The companies in the communication category include AA Projects and Alinea Consulting
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: Flexible working and parental policies category
The companies in the flexible working category include HLM Architects and HTA Design
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: methodology
Readers of Building, registered users of building.co.uk and other industry firms were invited to take part in the selection process for the Good Employer Guide 2018 through a call for entries published in print, online and via email. The category was open to any ...
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: listings
Building Good Employer Guide 2018: key Building Good Employer Guide 2018 Company Categories Full time UK employees Max. holiday (days) Training hours per person per year Female non-admin staff Staff from non-white ethnic backgrounds Sabbaticals Work abroad Entry-level training scheme Private healthcare Enhanced maternity ...
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: Wellbeing category
The companies in the wellbeing category include Assael Architecture and Graham
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FeaturesBuilding Good Employer Guide 2018: Taking the initiative
Our new Good Employer Guide Award is looking at five key areas in which companies are working to keep their staff happy and feeling valued, encouraging innovation, and finding new ways to attract fresh talent
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: It's all in the timing
This week’s construction gossip: Not only are women refusing to put up with any more nonsense, but now a man can’t even trust his smartphone not to cause offence
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CommentWorried about the skills shortage? Try employing former military personnel
Don’t offer jobs to former service men and women out of pity; employ them because they are competent, ambitious, hardworking and quick to adapt
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2011 - good employers
As Building’s Good Employer Guide is published, we look back to the suggestions posed in 2011 advising on keeping your workforce happy
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CommentA country manor house conspiracy
Shenanigans by two brothers fixing up a fancy house highlights the risks of working for undercapitalised companies
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CommentIn praise of mediation
Mediation is too often overlooked as a cost-effective method of dispute resolution
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FeaturesWhy is high finance so interested in affordable housing?
Oliver Letwin’s review into the speed at which homes are built calls for greater diversity of design, size and tenure. Investors seem keen to get involved
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2018: Female Leadership Award shortlist
Nominations for the award – sponsored by Aecom – include an engineering director who worked on the world’s tallest building
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CommentDoes progress on the Brexit process match construction's priorities?
With Brexit already taking its toll on construction’s workforce, Andrew Stunell says we have to act with speed to mitigate the worst effects of this political folly