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FeaturesBuilding Christmas challenge: A touch of frost
Five construction figures and two Building journalists sculpt landmark buildings. Who kept their cool and who felt a nasty chill?
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NewsVideo: Building’s 2015 Christmas challenge
Watch four teams of construction professionals take on this year’s challenge to carve iconic buildings out of ice
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NewsContractor picked for £44m London resi job
Bouygues awarded £44m contract for residential scheme with L Q in south east London
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NewsFinal approval for £560m Bank station overhaul
Dragados set to deliver major revamp of London underground station
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CommentMajor programmes, major opportunities
The UK must learn from its infrastructure successes to avoid another Davies Commission debacle
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NewsBam lined up for £100m Heatherwick King's Cross job
Proposal to convert derelict properties into 100,000ft2 retail and leisure complex
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NewsThree key priorities for Green Deal review
Review leader Peter Bonfield speaks exclusively to Building about recommendations to be published next April
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NewsHousing stats: New-build sales and completions in November 2015
Private registrations are down on this time last year but registrations for housing associations have gone up
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CommentCosts Budgets: GSK Project Management Limited (in liquidation) vs QPR Holdings Limited
Before Mr Justice Stuart-Smith. Judgement delivered 24 July 2015
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Features
This week in 2010
Five of the industry’s best-known names try their hand at making a Christmas number one
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CommentHansom: Oh, bring us a figgy pudding
This week, a little boy waits 60 years for Santa to turn up, there are Christmas logs aplenty, plus some DIY advice for the holiday period - and if even cement delivery tankers can get into the festive spirit, anyone can
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CommentNew year, new challenges
The industry remains on course to pass 2007 pre-recession levels next year, but it’s no time to put your feet up
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CommentHere we go again
The government’s resolve - yet again - to postpone the decision on airport expansion shows that planning remains subservient to politics, and sets off alarm bells for the National Infrastructure Commission - which must act now to protect its authority
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FeaturesThe projects that shaped 2015
It’s been a bumper year for both major and more modest buildings, from the Walkie Talkie to Vaudeville Court - but are they wonders or blunders?
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Christmas card
This week’s sketch is by Lesley Hally at LA Hally Architect
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NewsWates announces restructure
Construction group reorganises after recent acquisitions of Shepherd’s construction business and Purchase
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CommentContracts: If it looks like a duck
You may not have a contract in writing, but if you’ve had meetings about the scope and price of the work and have got on with the work and even been paid for the work, then a contract is just what you have
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NewsManchester £700m waterfront scheme gets go-ahead
Phase one of the £700m Middlewood Locks scheme in Salford has been given the go-ahead by Salford city council
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NewsContractor nabs £36m Hull venue
Hull City Council has picked Bam Construction to build the £36.2m Hull Venue
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NewsGovernment backtracks on FITs cuts
Green subsidy to be cut by 64%, rather than the 87% reduction originally proposed