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CommentGuaranteed maximum prices: Berth pangs
Francis Ho dives into the topic of guaranteed maximum price provisions and discovers how the pricing provisions for the navy’s new submarine jetty in Scotland were sunk
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NewsCapita Symonds wins £40m Bristol City stadium revamp
Football club presses ahead with revamp plans as public enquiry threatens move
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FeaturesBuilding best practice: risky business
Building and Newforma have teamed up for the Building Best Practice series of webinars. The latest broadcast followed the theme of Decreasing Risk on Projects
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CommentWhy GDP growth is the most likely salvation for construction
Construction is procyclical, and when there has been little GDP growth over three years, construction has dived into recession
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CommentMy Digital Life ... Tim Whitcombe
Tim Whitcombe, an architectural assistant with NBBJ’s London studio, on pets with bad habits, getting around London and making lists.
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NewsByles’ firm joins bid team in £400m defence estate race
Exclusive: Ex-schools capital chief’s firm Cornerstone becomes ‘key adviser’ to Telereal Trillium-led consortium
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NewsNetwork Rail appoints Crossrail director
Rob McIntosh to lead Network Rail’s £2.3bn programme of upgrades for the Crossrail development
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NewsBritish Land pushes Docklands developments
Developer progresses 1.8m sq ft Harmondsworth Quay scheme and £38m shopping centre
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NewsResidents attack BRE’s ‘unsustainable’ housing
Opponents are vocal in their criticism of organisation’s Bricket Wood project as consultation for planning permission comes to an end
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NewsAecom wins bigger role on Rio 2016 Olympics
Exclusive: Firm expands masterplan role to include design development work on all Olympic park venues, infrastructure and landscaping
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FeaturesFunding colleges: A poor third?
The previous government’s Building Colleges for the Future failed to impress. Will the coalition’s new measures do any better?
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NewsFoster's Amman airport opens
Architect’s design has flexible modular structure to allow for continued expansion
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NewsLaing O’ Rourke undergoes management shake-up
Exclusive: Development and design director goes to work for Apple as new finance director appointed
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FeaturesBuilding intelligence
Data from Experian Economics shows that the first quarterly rise in construction output since the second quarter of 2011 ocurred in fourth quarter of last year. However, not all the trends are positive
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NewsConstruction 'worst' sector for insolvencies
PwC says more than 600 insolvencies in first quarter of 2013
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CommentPF2 - Where are we now?
Are we about to see a successful come-back for PFI? There are five questions to answer first, says Jon Hart
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NewsMorrison emerges as backer behind RMJM buyer
Current owner and chairman of architect RMJM, Sir Fraser Morrison, is behind investment firm that bought the architect last week
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FeaturesCostain vs Kier: The battle for May Gurney
Who stands to win if Kier does decide to challenge Costain over its merger with May Gurney?