All articles by Joey Gardiner – Page 48
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NewsNetwork Rail to wield axe on £38bn spending plan
Department for Transport orders review of Network Rail projects and replaces infrastructure client’s chairman
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FeaturesWomen in engineering: The only way is up
With women making up fewer than 10% of engineers in the UK, what can be done to encourage more to join the profession?
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NewsParliament repair could cost £6bn
Independent report says vital repairs could take as much as 32 years to complete
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FeaturesPC Harrington: The higher they climb…
When PC Harrington Contractors collapsed into administration in May, it had debts of around £28.4m and just £900 cash in the bank. We reveal the true story of the firm’s demise
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NewsPC Harrington Contractors’ suppliers owed over £10m
Details of money owed to firms, including Lafarge and BRC, listed in administrator document seen by Building
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FeaturesForesight saga
QSs are supposed to price a job accurately and de-risk procurement. But some clients are wondering what they’re paying them for
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NewsTurmoil continues as two more senior directors leave Balfour
Delivery director Vince Lydon and business development director Mike Peskin follow Nick Pollard’s exit
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NewsLendlease lined up for major White City media campus
Lendlease is being lined up as the contractor for Stanhope and Mitsui Fudosan UK’s project next to Television Centre
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NewsNick Pollard to leave Balfour Beatty
UK construction services boss to be replaced with immediate effect
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NewsKerslake hits out at Right to Buy plan
Former HCA boss calls proposal “wrong in principle and practice”
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NewsGovernment to release land for 150,000 homes
New communities secretary calls on town halls to join public land drive
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CommentPolicy by accident
Much of the agenda spelled out by the Queen this week will be welcome but there remain big concerns
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FeaturesSchools: Where are they all going to sit?
25% more new school places will be needed in the next five years than the previous five, yet the government is cutting overall capital funding by 16%
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NewsSir Robert McAlpine singles out Fitzroy Place after £89m loss
Central London scheme is running up to six months late with problems on flats and public realm elements
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FeaturesProfessions: Now you see them, now you don’t
Construction’s professions could effectively disappear within a decade, according to the author of a challenging report
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CommentTimes are changing
The industry must change to meet the challenge facing construction’s professional institutions
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NewsConstruction needs shared code of ethics to ‘secure confidence’
Report says that industry’s professional institutions need to share ethical code and ‘robust’ enforcement procedure
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NewsMorrell: Ten years to save industry professions
Former construction adviser says in Edge commission report that professional bodies must find common voice and leadership or risk being irrelevant
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NewsIndustry fears construction adviser role will be scrapped
Tory victory welcomed, but concerns surface that industry champion role will be cut as cost saving measure