All Building articles in 23 August 2019
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Features
Which construction firms have landed HS2 contracts so far?
More than £15bn worth of work has been dished out
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Comment
Moving the dial: is construction an economic enabler once again?
Environmental challenges are ones that our industry should rise to because they will create enormous opportunities for companies and individuals
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Features
What will the Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues look like?
Ike Ijeh discovers that some arenas originally built for the 1964 summer games in Tokyo will be recycled for use in the next Olympiad
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Features
From the archive: 2016 — Let the games begin
As the venues being constructed for the Tokyo 2020 near completion, we look back on the problems that hit the Rio Olympiad in 2016
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Features
Market forecast Q2 2019: Slowing down
All construction work output experienced a fillip in Q1 2019, while tender prices increased over the year at Q2 2019
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Comment
5 minutes with… Tom Venner, commercial development director, HS2
Tom Venner tells Building about Euston, impatience and steak-frites
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Features
Sketch of the week: Kersfield Estate, Wandsworth, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Mae architects
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Comment
Construction industry gossip: On the source
French steeplejacks hack off journos at Tintagel, chief execs claim being boring is best, and we get Crossrail info by tucking into a full English…
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Comment
Legal: A contract means what it says
Robert Akenhead explains how a literal interpretation of wording sent a contractor’s argument off the rails in a case on disallowed costs
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Comment
Parent companies beware: you may still be liable
A cautionary tale for companies with subsidiaries operating overseas
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Features
Somewhere along the line: How is the Crossrail delay impacting local businesses?
Businesses next to and near the sites where new Crossrail stations are being built are at once feeling the pinch from a lack of footfall as the project stutters and looking forward to increased revenue from more customers when the project finally completes
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Comment
This is the industry’s big response to Hackitt. Why is no one talking about it?
Raising the Bar is an important report with many laudable aims, but will the industry and government back it?
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News
HS2 to find out this autumn if scheme will be scrapped
Review into £56bn railway to look at costs of pulling plug on scheme
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News
Legacy scheme blows hole in Costain profit
Profit slumps more than half as firm counts cost of repair work at Oxfordshire job
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Comment
A new model for mediation?
Hot on the heels of TeCSA’s low-cost mediation service, the CIC has included a fixed-fee option in its new model agreement
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Comment
Infrastructure projects help to improve our lives — so let’s refocus our project goals
Industry has an opportunity to embrace its fundamental purpose – to benefit society – while continuing to deliver on its bottom line
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Features
Image of the week: Didcot power station
The cooling towers at the disused coal-fired Didcot power station in Oxfordshire are demolished
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News
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ Cambridge homes given planning nod
Dwellings for students and college fellows will be built to Passivhaus standards