All Archive Titles articles – Page 1241
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‘Social cohesion’ is at risk
Sector voices concerns as report finds housing at the root of racial tension in the north
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Doubts over ‘catch-22’ borrowing regulations
New rules allowing some councils to borrow would still not produce a level playing field with housing associations for delivering decent homes, experts warned this week
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Traditional values
Following the dotcom boom (and bust), the industry's traditional software houses are now rolling out their own e-procurement packages.
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Spotlight on the south west
Hays Montrose reports plenty of multi-million pound projects and buoyancy set to stay
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Sharing the risk
Ann Wright looks at the question of whether a main contractor can contractually tie subcontractors into sharing the risk of a client becoming insolvent
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Rovers return
The continuing debate about roving rep trials (or Worker Safety Advisors), which begin in January, has got a bit personal recently between UCATT and the Construction Confederation. Here they both state their cases
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Team player
Tony Warren is an award-winning nice guy. So how does he still get the job done?
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Movers and shakers
Pettifer Construction and pcm have a new finance director. Delwin Groves has been promoted to work across the two subsidiaries of the Pettifer Group.Doug Weston is Taylor Woodrow's construction arm's new business development director. He joins from the Millennium Commission, where he was responsible for the capital projects construction programme.Multiplex ...
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Management online
Clients may be pressing you to introduce online project management, but will it really prove to be a web wonder?
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Are you liable?
Don't make a misrepresentation False statements to contractors made by your staff can render you financially liableA quantity surveyor involved in an office development told the contractor that the project had planning permission. In fact, planning permission had not been obtained. The statement had been made to encourage the ...
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Industry and Innovation
Alan Holmes slams lukewarm account of industry's ability to innovate
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Archive TitlesSurvival game
How can you protect your job? Rod Sweet and Jenny Hampton examine the last recession for clues on how to play the...
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Engineer Buro Happold is leading a bold experiment in building with cardboard. Jenny Hampton reports on their mission to use the material to build an after school club in Essex with a 25-year life
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Vibrating machinery hours under EU threat
Fears about Whole Body Vibration Syndrome lead MEPs to seek new limit on using equipment
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Don't knock 'em
Many demolition contractors believe they are seen as the unskilled heavy mob. But, as practitioners tell Jenny Hampton, knocking things down is becoming an increasingly high-tech specialisation
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Construction leads pay rise league
Labour shortages see sector record average pay increases of 4.5%
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Coming unstuck
You've done all the right things, or so you think. You're into partnering, but its all going wrong. Dave Stitt explains that declaring a breakdown could be the start of getting it right
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CMs set to occupy key role at design stage of projects
Egan push will see construction managers join a project team that is legally responsible for signing off stages. The team will have to be in place before work begins
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What a card!
A big headache for construction managers is ensuring plant operators are trained and can prove it. How do you tell if your operative's okay?