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Latham slams forum shake-up
Senior industry figures have warned that the new-look Strategic Forum for Construction risks jeopardising its relationship with the government and excluding a huge swathe of the industry following its recent shake-up.
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NewsFurther setback at hospital delayed by Jarvis troubles
Whittington hospital in north London, one of the contractor’s final PFI projects, is delayed for second time
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Future of Procure 21 assured after independent review
Health-building framework scheme gets clean bill of health as Department of Health takes control of it
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CommentStructural flaws
The Strategic Forum’s new structure has trimmed down its unwieldy membership, but some of the changes could damage its status
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CommentJoin the job queue
They say construction has an image problem. But the bigger issue is that young people who are attracted to the industry aren’t getting the help they need
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CommentWhat’s the damage?
Matthew Reed predicts a rise in professional indemnity insurance costs in 2006 and reveals what a professional with your risk profile should expect to cough up
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CommentInadmissable evidence
The answer to Tony Bingham’s ‘fuzzy edge disease’ is unambiguous contracts that do not rely on pre-contract transactions that will, rightly, be ruled inadmissable
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CommentWonders & blunders
Gill Taylor thinks the Scottish parliament is a playful masterpiece, but finds no fun in out-of-town toyshops
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FeaturesClass struggle
The government has £5bn to spend on its city academies programme over the next four years, but it’s finding it strangely difficult to get the construction industry to take its money … Eleanor Cochrane looks at what’s going wrong while Martin Spring considers the architecture
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FeaturesSustainability: On-site renewables
In the first of our spotlights on sustainability, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the increasingly prevalent issue of on-site renewable energy, including the options available and costs
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Just the job: Hayley Bufton at Willmott Dixon
Hayley Bufton has had quite a busy year, bagging Willmott Dixon's trainee of the year award and finding time to front a national advertising campaign …
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FTSE takes housebuilders out of construction sector
The quoted construction sector started the new year as a much smaller entity than it was in 2005, after the FTSE reclassified housebuilding under household goods.
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FeaturesSir Steve Redgrave
Britain’s leading Olympian has retired from the soul-bending agony of international athletics and has begun a number of jobs in construction, the industry he left 20-odd years ago. Tom Broughton found out what they are, and why he’s returned.
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FeaturesExtra time and penalties
Football fans, government officials and construction experts alike are obsessed with the struggle to get Wembley finished in time for the FA Cup Final in May.
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FeaturesUp, up but not away
The world’s first permanent inflatable roof has just landed at Heathrow airport. Before it got there, a project team including a hot-air balloon specialist had to design it, build it and get it past the regulators. Thomas Lane finds out how they made sure it didn’t fly away
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McAlpine nets £160m shopping centre job
Contractor Sir Robert McAlpine has been confirmed as the winner of a £160m contract to build the Shires shopping centre in Leicester.