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Masking tape blamed for falling glass on Mace job
Pane of glass fell from Mace’s 240 Blackfriars scheme last year
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Comment
PBAs: Tell it like it is
There’s still resistance to project bank accounts from main contractors. It’s time some people got their facts straight
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Costain JV wins £600m highways job
Joint venture between Costain and Skanska to build two sections of the A14
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Kier to complete Mouchel takeover next week
Kier to complete Mouchel purchase in early June following successful rights issue
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Features
A care in the world
Architype’s £9.6m overhaul of St Michael’s Hospice in Herefordshire is a nuanced balance between residential and institutional functions
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Ballymore launches 400-home London City Island scheme
Ballymore to kick off work after English National Ballet agreed to move to “mini-Manhattan” development
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Manchester unveils £1bn airport expansion
Decade long £1bn expansion programme set to ‘transform’ Manchester Airport
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Manchester University picks contractors for £1bn revamp
Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourke and Sir Robert McAlpine named for huge campus masterplan
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Comment
Straight talking
Convincing clients of the value of your product means speaking plain English
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Election boosts confidence to nine year high
Latest purchasing managers survey shows slight growth in output after April’s 22-month low
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Nick Pollard to leave Balfour Beatty
UK construction services boss to be replaced with immediate effect
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Qatar starts hunt for Doha art gallery architect
Waterside flour mill will be converted into cultural centre after three-stage contest
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Comment
Dangers in the deep
A recent case shows the risk that design-and-build contractors are exposed to on complex projects such as offshore wind farms
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Kerslake hits out at Right to Buy plan
Former HCA boss calls proposal “wrong in principle and practice”
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Aecom loses ONS construction output job
Office for National Statistics decision not to renew Aecom’s contract follows concerns over construction stats
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Alun Griffiths wins £25m Swansea tidal lagoon contract
Local contractor wins deal to provide ancillary civil engineering for the project’s public realm works
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Comment
Statutory payment provisions: Where are we now?
There is little review over the provisions which have changed the payment regimes in the construction industry
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Government to release land for 150,000 homes
New communities secretary calls on town halls to join public land drive
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Zaha's Oxford Uni Middle East wing opens
£11m St Antony’s College project links historic buildings and curves round 100-year-old tree
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Comment
Policy by accident
Much of the agenda spelled out by the Queen this week will be welcome but there remain big concerns