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NewsRevealed: Wembley will cost £410m to build
Final cost will be higher than the £326.5m agreed by sole contractor Multiplex, but still 'value for money'.
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Wage bill threatens Labour's public services plans
RICS warns that shortages of skilled staff at a time of peak demand is fuelling a sharp rise in construction costs.
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Features
Self-abuse
When self-certification was set up, it was welcomed as a way to cut red tape and rid the industry of rogue traders. So why, just two months on, are furious builders and regulators clamouring to get rid of it?
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The matrix
It's easy enough to say that the most powerful asset a company has is the knowledge of its staff. But the trick, says Victoria Madine, is in harnessing this power for the benefit of your business
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Comment
You're on your own
Two recent decisions in the House of Lords have made the scope for claiming contribution from other negligent parties much narrower than was thought
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NewsTropus denies sour grapes claims over Wembley report
Consultant rejects allegation by client WNSL that it wrote critical study because it lost contract.
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Atkins’ Hanscomb deal hit by 9/11
WS Atkins chief executive Robin Southwell has revealed that the 11 September attacks delayed the company’s £19.8m swoop for international QS Hanscomb.
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Comment
See you, Jimmy
Got a dispute with your builder? Then try to work it out without bothering the Court of Appeal – regardless of what you may have heard on Radio 2
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DTLR bites the dust in departmental shake-up
The resignation of Stephen Byers as secretary of state for transport, local government and the regions on Tuesday has resulted in the break-up of the DTLR.
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McAlpine starts £100m share buy-back
Conctractor Alfred McAlpine this week kicked off a share buy-back programme that will return more than £100m to investors.
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NewsMace wins £70m Wellcome Trust genome centre
Construction firm beats stiff opposition to build science scheme on sensitive rural site in Cambridgeshire.
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Immigrant 'working holiday' scheme to ease skills crisis
Home Office puts forward plan to allow foreign labour into country for up to six months to meet needs.
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Bishopsgate demolition could start 'within weeks'
Tube bosses aim to begin knocking down arches in disputed goods yard to push through East London Line.
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Staff get just three days' training
THE AVERAGE construction worker received only three days of training last year – although the best firms provided their staff with 20.
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HOK to design new home for Wimbledon FC
Wimbledon Football Club's 28,000-seat stadium in Milton Keynes will be designed by HOK Sport.
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Comment
Anatomy of a fiasco
As the World Cup kicks off in the beautiful (and completed) arenas of Japan and South Korea, our attention is again on England’s beautiful (but unstarted) stadium in Wembley. Three consultants’ reports presented to MPs last week cast new light on the cost of the troubled project and the controversial ...
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NewsSturgess quits post after Skanska shake-up
Skanska’s UK building managing director Andy Sturgess has left his post suddenly after David Fison became the new boss.
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NewsYouth of today
Youth of today: The £1.2m SouthBank Youth Resource Centre was recently completed for the London borough of Lambeth's education department. The 600 m2 two-storey block on Waterloo Road in central London contains education facilities. The scheme was designed in-house by the borough's design and technical services department. The team also ...
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Morrison costs AWG £106m
Utilities group AWG this week revealed that its acquisition of Morrison Construction had cost it £106.4m in the past year.