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CommentExpert witness: Three Card Trick
How can an expert witness be unbiased when hired by one party? Reader, behold, a tale of an expert witness too honest for his own good
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CommentHands up who likes frameworks?
First of a three part series on frameworks: Love them or loathe them, more and more public construction spend is going through frameworks
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Comment10 Steps to accelerate BIM
For BIM to be truly an industry-wide platform it cannot be developed in isolation, we need the participation of as many of us as possible
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CommentTrevor Miles
Trevor Miles is the smarter buildings, real estate and facilities management consulting lead at IBM Global Business Services, UK and Ireland
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CommentHansom: No double-speak here
No (more) news at Balfour Beatty, no one dislikes Boris, and buying yourself a railway line to run around your mansion isn’t an insane overindulgence. Plus, the Scottish health secretary sets a bad example
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CommentOne by one
If everyone pitches in, the effort required to breach the skills gap might be smaller than you think
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CommentWhere does blame lie?
An independent health and safety consultant has recently been imprisoned after a tragic accident on a construction site. Even those who are not directly employers can still be held liable
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CommentLetter: Scottish construction employment
Managing director of the Scottish Building Federation bemoans lack of improvement in number of construction jobs
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CommentOnline poll: Balfour Beatty
Can Balfour Beatty turn itself round within two years? Vote here
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CommentBuild well, live well
A building that looks after your wellbeing - your fitness, comfort and stress levels - might sound like science fiction, but there are already awards in place applauding this kind of innovation
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CommentBIM: If you want my advice…
BIM is increasingly being adopted by the industry, but who bears responsibility for recommending whether or not to use it in the first place?
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CommentThere can be no delay in recruiting more women in construction
As the skills shortage gets worse, there can be no excuse for failing to recruit women
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CommentSkills for our future
Industry and government need to avoid the current short-term approach to industry skills development and look for solutions that are not purely driven by market forces
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CommentThe long road to sustainable real estate
Sustainability in real estate is not ever going to be a quick journey, but with the right attitude we could pick up the pace in 2015
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CommentWeather: A British obsession with financial consequences
Until technology allows accurate long term weather forecasts, what can be done to manage the risk?
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CommentSection 105: Savoye and Savoye Limited vs Spicers Limited
This judgment provides guidance on the definition of ‘construction operations’ and the meaning of ‘forming, or to form, part of the land’
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CommentDecisions, decisions
Building’s Agenda 15 manifesto, launched this month, was drawn up after a year of consultation with its readers on what construction needs from the next government. Lib Dem Andrew Stunell is the first MP to respond to our policy blueprint
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CommentA need for certainty
John Laing’s return to the stock market has highlighted the UK’s short-term approach to infrastructure
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CommentTop trumps
Recent amendments to two powerful pieces of legislation around recovery of costs in construction contract adjudication mean they contradict each other. So, which takes precedent?