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How to spruce up your office this spring
Clean the windowsNatural light is good for your health. The cleaner your windows, the more your employees will benefit from the streams of golden sunlight that will pour into your office as the weather improves. Also, panes of glass covered in guano don't do much for a company's image.Change your ...
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A question of … timing
If you owe me money, and I owe you money, does it make sense to just pay the difference? Let's see how two barristers and a judge sort out this tricky problem …
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Stuck to your guns?
After you start an adjudication, can you introduce new arguments or fresh evidence? A recent decision suggests not, but clarification is needed urgently
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Lead times
Reinforced concrete frame construction is holding firm with excellent enquiry levels, reports Gardiner & Theobald overleaf, but below Mace detects a continuing downward trend in lead times this quarter
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Just the job
FaberMaunsell's Graham Howells may have been appointed head of the firm's environment division, but he still believes it's important to have a life outside work
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FeaturesAppointments
ConsultantsMechanical and electrical consulting engineer Building Services Group has appointed Tony Cassidy, previously with Cyril Sweett, to head its new M&E cost management division.Project manager Heery International has appointed Ken Hamilton senior commercial manager. Bob Heald and Martin Sinclair join as project managers.Midlands law practice Gateley Wareing has appointed David ...
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Game on: Wembley warms up for stadium and Olympic bid
Football could be finally coming home to Wembley following two postive consultants' reports and a flurry of substitutions in the boardroom of Wembley National Stadium Ltd.
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Budget round-up
Tax breaks for small firms and commitment to public spending are welcomed by the industry, but a hike in National Insurance contributions takes the shine off
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NewsClubs put stadiums on hold after ITV Digital collapse
Norwich, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Macclesfield and Sheffield United review plans after TV income disappears.
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YJL bids for Crest Nicholson contracting division
Crest chief executive tight-lipped about future of Bristol subsidiary Pearce but City says deal is in the offing.
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FeaturesAlastair Mellon
Just 37 years old and with no previous IT experience, the managing director of construction portal Asite is changing the way the industry thinks about e-procurement. Marcus Fairs found out what makes him tick – and blush.
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The loves of Lady Justice
The goddess of justice had a soft spot for consultants, and tended to take their side in tort cases. Now it seems she's found a significant other …
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FeaturesPilot error
Labour's pathfinder schemes were supposed to show what PFI could do for run-down housing estates, but after two-and-a-half years not one of the eight pilot projects has got under way. Mark Leftly finds out whether the idea will still fly …
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FeaturesParminder Mew and the temple of doom
It looked as if the Sikh community of Southall might never get its temple – let alone the biggest one outside India – until an adventurous project manager arrived to make it happen.
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FeaturesMaking history
Manufacturer Yorkon and architect Cartwright Pickard showed at Murray Grove that modular prefab could be turned into landmark design. Now the team has taken the lessons learned there and proved it can make money as well. Marcus Fairs reports from a revolution in the making
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NewsIndustry must do better, says new Egan report
Sir John Egan has hit out at the industry's lack of progress since the publication of his seminal 1998 Rethinking Construction report.
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Indecent proposals
This is a story about a householder who agreed to pay a dodgy builder cash, then tried to kick him in his assets when things went wrong. What did the judge say?
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NewsBritish Library puts M&E contracts up for grabs
Library seeks partners for multimillion-pound, five-year contracts to look after services on estate.
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NewsSlowdown is easing skills crisis, says Barratt boss
Cautious developers and the end of big projects have relieved pressure on wages, says Frank Eaton.