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Industry improves CSR, but must do better
The construction industry has greatly improved its corporate social responsibility score over the past year, but still lags behind other sectors
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NewsPanceltica bosses flee Qatar over jail fears
The managers of Qatar-based structural steel contractor Panceltica have fled the country over fears they face jail as a legal wrangle with local developer Barwa escalates
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NewsReshuffle delays construction death report
The publication of an inquiry into construction deaths is to be delayed as a result of the Cabinet reshuffle
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Frameworks: will they stay or will they go?
Some part of me feels that blogging wasn't invented as a way to discuss the latest movements in construction industry contracts. When Tim Berners-Lee sat down and invented the world wide web, I somehow suspect that the intricacies of single-stage tendering as opposed to long term partnering agreements weren't right ...
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FeaturesWorking for the Colonel: opportunities in Libya
Forty years of isolation has left Libya desperate for reconstruction and rolling in money. So it’s spending billions on national renewal, and if you’re clever you’ll help it out. Oh, it helps if you like coffee
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Short and tweet: Su Butcher
Dispatches from the Twitter social networking site: Su Butcher is a practice manager at architect Barefoot and Gilles
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Citywatch: So, how did we all do?
It was during the first week of June last year that housebuilding stocks began their descent in earnest. As the European football championships kicked off without England, Barratt was also having a miserable time as rumours swirled in the City about its survival
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Hyder reports 8% profit rise
Hyder reports 8% profit rise Hyder Consulting has reported an 8% rise in adjusted pre-tax profit to £15.6m on the back of a strong performance in the Middle East and in the transport sector
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Populous back in black
Populous, the architect formerly known as HOK Sport, has returned to the black in 2008 with a pre-tax profit of £83,411 (2007: £119,360 loss)
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Bellway turns to South-east
Housebuilder Bellway will ramp up production in south-east England, where it said sales were now “marginally stronger” than other parts of the country
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Moxon architects
If you ever have a drink with Moxon Architects, wait until you’re about four pints along and mention the city of Helsinki. The chances are that they’ll start acting like Basil Fawlty with a corpse in the laundry basket. Or at least, the men will
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FeaturesA hard act to follow: the New Acropolis
This is the New Acropolis museum, and it’s located a two-minute stroll from the most famous building in the world. So how did the architect handle that brief?
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FeaturesHell’s clients: whatever happened to frameworks?
Frameworks were one of Egan’s famous win–win deals: suppliers would get lots of work and clients would get their loyalty. But now clients don’t need fidelity, so it seems they’re ripping up the rules. Joey Gardiner looks at what that means for the industry
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FeaturesCould it be magic? Take That's stage set
Well, with its giant mechanical elephant, big top and 10m-high puppet ringmaster, Take That’s new show is certainly surreal. But who designs and builds this sort of stuff? Thomas Lane went behind the scenes at the fastest-selling show in UK pop history
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CommentHaving it large
This week resembles nothing so much as a big night out, starting with a booze-up in the new bar, a comical confusion about who’s doing what, a late Currie – and of course the massive bill at the end
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Boris’ viewing corridors threaten landmark schemes
New and expanded viewing corridors proposed by the mayor of London could have a significant impact on a number of planned buildings in the capital, according to experts
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NewsCentre stage: Dublin community centre
The Sean O’Casey Community Centre in Dublin, designed by O’Donnell + Tuomey, is one of six buildings shortlisted for the RIBA Lubetkin Prize, for the best international building by a member
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SEC Group highlights Pierse pitfall
The chief executive of the Specialist Engineering Contractors Group is petitioning the new construction minister to amend the Construction Bill, after Pierse Contracting, the £28m-turnover subsidiary of Pierse Group, went into administration on 1 June