All Building articles in 24 August 2018
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Big names on shortlist for the 2019 Building Awards
Contenders for this year’s awards revealed today
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MPs get behind new construction qualification
Qualification designed by ISG and examination board WJEC set to be launched later today
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Features
Online poll: No deal Brexit?
This week’s poll: Do you think a no-deal Brexit would be a disaster for the UK economy?
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Building without borders: support our campaign
Please register your support for our campaign – and make your voice heard
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Brexit survey: separation anxiety
Barely 10% of construction thinks government cares enough about the industry to get a good Brexit deal. We report on the levels of pessimism revealed by our exclusive survey and how Building will be campaigning until the Brexit deadline to get your voices heard
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Comment
Leaving the EU with no deal would be bad for the construction industry
With over 2.3 million jobs in construction, it is critical firms are still able to attract the skills, and trade in vital goods, that enable growth and encourage investment
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The government needs to find a way out of the mess it has created
The construction’s contribution to the economy is seemingly being ignored. But ours is the sector that is going to be essential in the delivery process of large infrastructure projects post-Brexit
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Losing access to skilled EU labour will only heighten constraints and costs
It’s worrying that the government doesn’t appear to read its own forecasts when setting out its position with the EU
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Procurement update: Offsite
With government pushing the offsite agenda and a growing housing sector needing to access new capacity, how can clients position themselves to take advantage of the benefits of offsite construction?
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Comment
Hansom: Where the money is
Accountants charge up to £1,156 an hour to sort out Carillion, and an MP gets on stage to prove once again that politics is just showbusiness for ugly people
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Features
Sketch of the week: Food hall, market town
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Ewen Miller, managing director at Calderpeel Architects.
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Image of the week: Haute cuisine
Winners of a competition by food delivery firm Deliveroo ordered and ate a meal 450ft up in the air on the roof of a central London tower this week
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Comment
Legal: Renewable contracts
In the sixth part of our series on new technology, Sara Cunningham considers how building contracts can be adapted for new buildings that also are required to generate energy
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Construction needs a deal
As things stand – more than two years after the Leave vote – we still have no idea what it actually means for any sector of the economy, least of all construction.
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Let’s drive industry change by questioning everything
Carillion has highlighted construction’s tendency to get stuck in a rut by sticking to what it has always done – but by asking the right questions, we can drive real change
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ISG names new boss of Malaysian business
Darren Pavitt was previously firm’s Middle East pre-construction director
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Comment
Not just any old homes
Simply building more homes won’t help if they’re of the wrong type, in the wrong places – and built to inadequate standards
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Legal: Agreed in principle
When is a contract a contract, asks Robert Akenhead – is it when a notional agreement is agreed, or does it need to be more formal?
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Features
From the archive: 2016
We look back to reaction just after the EU referendum, when some were jubilant, some were shellshocked and some were downright miserable about the future.
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Deal or no deal : construction’s post-Brexit future hangs in the balance
There’s been plenty of talk about potentially leaving the EU without a deal, but very little detail. In the first of two articles launching our Building Without Borders campaign, Joey Gardiner examines the likely consequences of a no-deal Brexit for construction.