All Building articles in 9 August 2019
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Features
Payment times: How long do the top 50 contractors take to pay up?
Keep up to date with the payment times of the leading contractors in the construction sector
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News
Multiplex improves payment times but remains amongst slowest to settle up
Firm behind 22 Bishopsgate tower still some way behind contracting peers, latest data shows
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TfL still in talks with industry over Tube overcrowding
Transport group says message to reduce congestion is only slowly getting through
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Government probe into Carillion hospital jobs suspended because of pandemic
Public Accounts Committee set to grill key figures on construction problems
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Features
Tracker: June 2019
Overall activity continued to gather momentum in June, and all sectoral activity indices reflected expansionary tendencies
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Light years away: how close are we to space tourism?
Space tourism still has some giant leaps to make before humankind can take a holiday on the moon. What’s slowing lift-off?
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From the archive: 2013 — In a hotel far, far away
As we look at the progress of space tourism, the archive revealed what lunar holiday resorts could look like – don’t expect any Jacuzzis or all-inclusive cocktails
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Comment
A new vision for our high streets
We shouldn’t be afraid of a new high street, but instead embrace it as a change to our built environment that reflects the changes to how we now live, work and play
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Comment
We need to introduce a ‘brownfield-first’ housebuilding policy
There is enough suitable brownfield land in England to build more than 1 million new homes — so what’s the delay?
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Comment
Genuine opportunity for transparency
We operate in a fragmented industry and we must raise our game. Clear reporting by companies could serve to transparently build up trust
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Features
Image of the week: Into the wood
A visitor poses by the White Gates at the 2019 Archstoyanie annual festival of landscape objects in the Nikola-Lenivets art park in Russia’s Kaluga region
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A construction holiday: A nerd’s guide to site-seeing
From playing I-spy with heavy plant to gasping in awe at hydro-electric dams, here is our guide to ‘geeking out’ on construction while on holiday
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Comment
Construction industry gossip: Dreams can come true
Housing minister Esther McVey makes a bold promise, the heat is on at home and abroad and some climate change activists may have got it wrong
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Features
Sketch of the week: Mixed-use modular scheme, central London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Dominic Eaton, director at Stride Treglown
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News
Be First lodges plan for next stage of £55m Barking estate overhaul
Scheme will be built by Wates
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Bellway builds record number of homes
But housebuilder says latest full-year margins will be lower than last time
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Next phase of Meridian Water scheme in for planning
North London housing job being masterminded by Enfield council
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Broadway Malyan names new MD
Ian Apsley led architect’s restructuring and employee ownership move