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Jittery investors tell Interserve to quit Durham uni scheme

2018-11-15T07:00:00+00:00By Will Ing

Financiers worried by 50 year length of struggling firm’s contract

Cash from Kier JV sale will go towards debt reduction

2018-11-15T14:29:00+00:00By Hamish Champ

Firm sells interest in company for £24m

Government's housebuilding target in danger of becoming a 'pipedream'

2018-11-15T12:22:00+00:00By Hamish Champ

DCLG data shows net additional housing grew by just 2% in 2017/18

Civil war erupts at Zaha Hadid Architects

2018-11-15T07:00:00+00:00By Elizabeth Hopkirk

Patrik Schumacher takes fellow executors of late architect’s will to court

Brexit nerves hit shares in housebuilders

2018-11-15T12:14:00+00:00By Hamish Champ

Stocks slump amid fears over the future of Theresa May’s Brexit deal

London Assembly moots December 2019 opening for Crossrail

2018-11-15T07:02:00+00:00By Jordan Marshall

Railway bosses said in summer scheme would be delayed until next autumn

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Focus

Market forecast: Past the peak

2018-11-15T07:00:00+00:00By Michael Hubbard

The initial market reaction to the Brexit vote was muted, with output soon recovering strongly, but the trend seems likely to have turned, just as our exit from the EU is imminent. Michael Hubbard of Aecom reports

Comment

Brexit: the stakes are too high not to shake our bad habits

2018-11-15T07:00:00+00:00By Mark Farmer

We are not going to meet the economic shock of Brexit by building in the way we’ve always done. We have to embrace radical change

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Long reads

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Projects: Heatherwick's Coal Drops Yard

Contractors' Salary Survey 2018: Ready for the off

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Will virtual reality spark the BIM revolution we've been waiting for?

Why is high finance so interested in affordable housing?

BIM survey 2018: The rise and rise of BIM

Will driverless cars change our urban environment as we know it?

Is this the end of the road for Help to Buy?

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Combustible materials ban: what would it mean?

Top 150 Consultants 2018 - league table

Projects: Heatherwick's Coal Drops Yard
Contractors' Salary Survey 2018: Ready for the off
Will virtual reality spark the BIM revolution we've been waiting for?
Why is high finance so interested in affordable housing?
BIM survey 2018: The rise and rise of BIM
Will driverless cars change our urban environment as we know it?
Is this the end of the road for Help to Buy?
Combustible materials ban: what would it mean?
Top 150 Consultants 2018 - league table

Opinion

Legal: The scariness of vicariousness

2018-11-15T07:00:00+00:00By James Bessey

The courts have held an employer liable for a rogue data breach by an employee – although the company broke no rules. James Bessey explains why

Talent on the move: there's a tug of war for skills in the contractor market

2018-11-14T07:00:00+00:00

Will we have enough of the right people to build our projects to the right standards and at the right price?

It’s OK not to be OK. But how do we make people OK?

2018-11-13T14:01:00+00:00By Heather Beach

With men making up the vast majority of the construction industry, a fair conclusion is that it is male behaviours around mental health that most need to be tackled: by training people in non-judgmental listening and saying it is “OK not to be OK”.

Is altering the green belt the key to solving the UK’s housing crisis?

2018-11-13T14:35:00+00:00By Sarah Clinch

News of green belt boundaries being altered can often result in an element of local opposition, but amendments to national planning policy provide opportunities for better engagement

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