All Building articles in 27 July 2018
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Recruitment and training: how will the construction industry measure up to market needs?
There are plenty of skills challenges facing the industry. But if we get it right, we have the opportunity to build a next generation equipped with the practical skills to build the infrastructure and developments the country needs
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Comment
Hansom: Confusion reigns
Willmott Dixon’s suppliers confront their inner rubber ducks, and the waters rise at the Houses of Parliament
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Skegness plans high wire over outdoor swimming pool
Council begins hunt for contractor to carry out work at Lincolnshire resort
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Bad weather and Carillion to send output sinking to six year low
Growth this year will be ravaged by Carillion collapse and bad weather, CPA warns
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Leader: Living on the margins
The big story in this year’s Top 150 league tables is contractors’ pitifully low margins compared with housebuilders’ surging profits
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Image of the week: Too darn hot
Parched yellow grass covers Greenwich Park in south-east London as the heatwave continues
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House Building Federation urges government to speed up planning
HBF also calls for certainty over future of Help To Buy as it reveals economic worth of sector
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Tender prices set to keep on rising, Alinea predicts
Consultant says firms being hit rising costs and doubts about upcoming work
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Sketch of the week: adapted Victorian post office, Bury St Edmunds
This #buildingdoodle sketch is by Tanvir Hasan, deputy chair of Donald Insall Associates.
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From the archive: 2005
Low margins, as highlighted in our Top 150 Contractors table this week, are nothing new. Back in 2005 we reported on how difficult things were in the sector.
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Top 10 contractors under the cosh as margins slip to less than 0.5%
Margins have fallen from 1.09% 12 months ago
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Top 150 contractors and housebuilders: Split fortunes
Building’s exclusive full Top 150 league has been released
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Low carbon technologies: how do we ensure installed performance?
Terry Keech says it’s time to end the disconnect between ‘intended performance’ and ‘actual performance’ of low carbon technologies installed in social housing
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There is only one path to decarbonising heat – we must realise that now
The only way to decarbonise heat generation is by going all-electric, says Barny Evans. And we need to start working on it now.
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Bouygues nabs third Hinkley Point contract
French contractor will build a training centre and a warehouse
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Soaring UK revenue helps Arcadis
Highways England and Network Rail jobs give Dutch consulant a lift
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Nuclear energy: Gone with the wind
The National Infrastructure Commission’s landmark report this month seemed to sound the death knell for nuclear energy new-build, calling for a large-scale shift to renewables by 2050 – and for only one more nuclear power station approval by 2025. But are we really likely to get 90% of Britain’s electricity ...
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Owners who don't do anything about danger cladding at risk from neighbours, says lawyer
Blake Morgan warns of liability risk following Network Rail decision earlier this month