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NewsFerrovial shares drop after £81m Amey buy
Price of Spanish contractor falls 3% as Madrid stock market learns of acquisition.
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CommentBringing up baby
Next week, adjudication turns five – and now that the industry has taken the little 'un to its heart it's time to pack him off to school for a little education
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NewsScots procurement tsar to crack down on cost overruns
Officials in London and Edinburgh draw up radical plans to cut costs and delays on public buildings.
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UK consultant wins first post-war Iraq work
UK QS and project manager Baker Wilkins has secured commissions on two new commercial projects in Iraq and is planning to re-enter its dormant office in Baghdad next month.
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Arup leads race to win gold in Olympic masterplanning
Speculation is intensifying that the government will give the go-ahead for a 2012 games bid within weeks.
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NewsCalatrava's Athens stadium begins race against time
Spanish architect dispels fears of Olympics committee over strength of roofs – and faces 500-day deadline.
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Gains backs CITB against Prescott
Construction Confederation president John Gains has rejected government criticism of the Construction Industry Training Board, writes Tom Broughton.
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600,000 building workers to get 23% pay rise
Construction unions and employer bodies last week agreed a 23% pay rise for more than 600,000 building workers over the next three years.
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Constructionline is on the mend, says taskforce study
A progress report by the Local Government Task Force says that the contractor vetting service Constructionline has made significant service improvements.
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Gains backs CITB against Prescott
Construction Confederation president John Gains has rejected government criticism of the Construction Industry Training Board.In a letter to deputy prime minister John Prescott, Gains said he was “disappointed” by his attack on the board. Prescott called it “a disgrace” for not tackling the skills shortage adequately (see Building, 11 April, ...
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600,000 building workers to get 23% pay rise
Construction unions and employer bodies last week agreed a 23% pay rise for more than 600,000 building workers over the next three years.The deal was thrashed out at a meeting of the Construction Industry Joint Council, a committee made up of the Construction Confederation and union representatives from UCATT, GMB ...
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Interserve steals March with deals worth £87m
£38m Ministry of Defence college and Tyneside office block help support services firm beat off Carillion.
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FeaturesJust the job
Philip Cooper tells us why structural engineering is all about using your imagination
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Down, but not out
This month, we report that the pace of growth in construction activity has slackened to a 10-month low, but that it's likely to pick up over the next quarter
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Come back, Peter Walker
To meet the ever-increasing housing demand in the South-east, Prescott needs radical solutions. He could do worse than look to an old Tory for inspiration
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Deborah Vogwell
Value for money in a construction project has to be defined before it can be meaningful
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FeaturesWhere eagles dare
Building a climbers' shelter 3000 m up a French mountain is a job for high-fliers only – and even then it can end up being a real cliffhanger
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And then some
The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 may not have taken the world by storm, but it has hefty implications for adjudicators considering awards
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That old chestnut
Oh, did we promise to pay you if your employer went bankrupt? Well, we're terribly sorry, but this statute passed in 1677 says we don't have to