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NewsScott Brownrigg's Lilly campus
Work now complete on architect’s office building for multinational pharmaceutical corporation
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NewsSocial housing starts down 70%
NHBC figures show social housing starts down by over 70% in June on the same month last year
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NewsFee for Olympics delivery partner CLM rises to £650m
Exclusive: CH2M Hill, Laing O’Rourke and Mace joint venture will be paid 60% more than MPs originally told
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NewsAEG sounds out contractors for £65m O2 hotel
Entertainment firm on the look out for contractor for £65m hotel project next to O2 arena
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NewsPaul Davis + Partners to redesign In & Out club
Reuben Brothers are set to transform Mayfair listed property into ‘super-prime’ homes
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2012
Who’s thriving and who’s merely surviving this year? Our interactive tables reveal all …
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CommentTurn on the power
In the first of three articles looking at key risks for contractors on energy projects, we examine a typical contract structure for a power station build
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FeaturesThe 12 key moments that made the Olympics
As the gaze of the world fixes on London for tonight’s opening ceremony, Building looks back over the major events, turning points and chance encounters that helped to create the most extraordinary construction project the capital has ever seen
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FeaturesGardens by the Bay, Singapore
How Wilkinson Eyre found a sustainable way of cooling two vast glass conservatories in one of the hottest climates on Earth
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CommentCalculating compensation
Here’s a case where homeowners took a builder to court for damages when cracks appeared in their homes. The question was how to calculate what compensation to pay
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CommentAll things considered
The Public Services (Social Value) Act will change the face of public procurement, requiring authorities to consider social, economic and environmental well-being
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CommentA: Alfred McAlpine Capital Projects vs Tilebox
In the first of a new series, we look at a ruling that shows how difficult it is to overturn reasonable liquidated damages agreed in a contract
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CommentPFI: Road to nowhere
The coalition’s attempts to attract private finance to infrastructure projects merely postpones the inevitable return to PFI
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CommentWonders & blunders with David Bickle
The Hawkins/Brown partner is mesmerised by Living Architecture’s enigmatic boat on the roof of London’s Southbank Centre, but all wound up about Anish Kapoor’s Orbit tower
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FeaturesInvesting in infrastructure: Safe bet
Questions remain over how the government’s £40bn infrastructure initiative will work - and whether it will unlock the pension funds’ billions
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CommentHansom: Hidden depths
This week, Grant Shapps is unmasked as a ‘bot’, RIBA’s Angela Brady reveals herself to be multilingual (sort of), and Wilmott Dixon tries to alert school children to the hazard s of getting plastered
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CommentLet’s get radical
Yes, please for more infrastructure investment - but let’s make sure enlightened procurement becomes the rule rather than the exception
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CommentLost opportunities
The no marketing rules are impeding knowledge sharing as well as publicity opportunities