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CommentOpen mike: Are you sitting comfortably?
You’ve built your office and handed it over in all its pristine glory, but whether those actually working in it are happy – well, that’s not your business is it? Oh, but it is.
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News‘People aren’t desperately confident right now’
Ahead of its results, Taylor Wimpey boss Peter Redfern talks about housebuilders’ woes
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McAslan dropped from Birmingham New Street
Network Rail set to award detailed design of £550m station refurbishment to Atkins
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Housing association in talks over 5,000 zero-carbon homes
One of the UK’s largest housing associations is in talks with a contractor and materials supplier with a view to building 5,000 zero-carbon homes a year.
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Government launches skills shortage investigation
Government calls for submissions for inquiry into the UK's lack of engineering expertise
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SMC appoints Boardman as acting group finance director
Caroline Godfrey is not taking up role due to family bereavement
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NewsMitie profit expected to hit £70m
Support services group forecasted to generate £1.4bn turnover in 2007/2008
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‘Darth Vader’s helmet’ dented as contracts are retendered
Start date for Stanhope’s £300m City office scheme may be put back until 2009
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English-only safety tests mooted
The board of the Construction Skills Certification Scheme is considering plans to make migrant workers take its health and safety test in English.
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NewsView from the rooftop
Andrew Mellor, PRP Architects’ green guru, is confident we can build zero-carbon homes. But if we are going to put up 8 million of them, there might be a few issues to iron out along the way …
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Architects look abroad as staffing crisis deepens
Survey shows growing number of unfilled posts and recruitment bills as high as £700,000
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NewsAPC Trainer: Can you avoid conflict? (A015)
Our APC experts show you how to tackle those difficult questions
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CommentYou can’t always get what you want
Here’s the story of a PFI scheme that caught fire. And it’s the story of how the parties then strained to construe their contracts in the most favourable way. Some were not successful
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CommentThe price of intransigence
Mediation can be used as a ploy to cut down on costs at a later trial. But if a party is suspected of playing along with no intention of compromising, everyone can end up losing a lot of money
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Challenging times
There will be a lot of legal change this year, with major revisions to immigration law, more stringent health and safety regs and a move to increase new homes’ energy efficiency
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FeaturesBAA the economy class client
BAA was the client that revolutionised construction to deliver Heathrow Terminal 5 on time and budget, but the cultural change that has followed its takeover by Spanish contractor Ferrovial has left many observers wondering whether that revolution is now over.
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CommentTop 25 architect websites: Flash blindness
Do you glaze over every time you have to navigate through endless animations on architects’ websites? Well, you’re not alone, says website expert Martin Hornagold
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Orders holding up
Despite the pessimism all around, most contractors have strong order books and there are few reports of projects being cancelled or delayed. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon reports