All Building articles in 5 April 2019
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Features
Building intelligence: Q4 2018
Output is slowing as the uncertainty around Brexit continues, especially in the commercial sector, but private and public housing are holding up well
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Comment
5 minutes with... Nic Clark, managing director, KLH
Nic Clark talks to building about guitars, Rome’s Pantheon, and tall blokes getting in the way at gigs
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Features
Tracker: February 2019
Tenders and employment prospects both fell for the first time in almost two years, but activity is still rising, if more slowly
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Comment
Why should employers care about the gender pay gap?
As this year’s construction gender pay gap figures are revealed, why should we care?
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News
Top 40 contractors fail to close gender pay gap
Women remain worse off at top firms, considerably above UK average
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News
Survey reveals ‘shocking’ level of industry discrimination
Building research reveals most black and disabled people working in construction do not feel secure in their job
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Features
Sketch of the week: Eden Project hotel, Cornwall
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Mohammed Syafiq B Hassan Jubri at Tate Harmer
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Features
The face of diversity: construction’s hidden problem
Diversity and inclusion is the subject of our latest industry survey, conducted by Hays. Debika Ray looks at what the results say about the industry, and finds out what employers can do to improve the situation
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Features
Roundtable: Striving for quality in construction
Standards in construction clearly need to be raised – so how can the industry go about improving quality, and how exactly do we define it? Hamish Champ reports on a roundtable by the STA
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Comment
Construction industry gossip: Bowled over
ISG finds its US owners fail to appreciate a cricket win, and the Danes give the City of London a lesson in how to be cool
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Comment
Building’s diversity survey – take a look around you
Well, if you are one of those white middle-aged men who has a leadership position, it’s time to take a look at yourself and those around you. No, really, do it.
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News
Mace picks up Aecom boss following US firm's decision to pull plug on contracting
John Hilton to direct Stratford Waterfront works
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Features
From the archive: 2016 - the bold and the beautiful
Can you remember a time when we didn’t know what Brexit was? Arguably, we still don’t
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News
McLaren the fox in the box with £100m-plus Leicester City training centre
Scheme to finish in middle of 2020
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Information - Building
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News
Fosters submits plans for Mayfair hotel
Proposals would replace Seifert block with 83-bed hotel and luxury homes
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Comment
We need to be much more proactive in tackling mental health
Mental health isn’t something we can solve with half-measures and isolated approaches