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Insuring against terrorism
With the UK looking like a target for terrorist attacks, how do existing standard form contracts deal with the implications?
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On shaky grounds
Few neighbour disputes can match those that begin when shared foundations need work. The Party Wall Act is there to help resolve such disputes – but does it?
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Scots parliament firm collapses
Bovis Lend Lease faces the awkward problem of finding a cladding contractor to replace Flour City Architectural Metals midway through work on the £230m Scottish parliament.
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Six shortlisted for Bradford regeneration
A shortlist of six teams of consultants are to fight it out to draw up a blueprint to regenerate Bradford city centre.
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Contracts
ovis bags management jobEnergy group TXU has appointed contractor Bovis Lend Lease as construction manager for its £35m UK business centre in Ipswich, Suffolk. The building is due for completion in February 2003. McAlpine wins £18.5m raceContractor Sir Robert McAlpine has won a contract to build a grandstand at York ...
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Stirling work
The Magna Centre, the £46m science adventure centre created inside a former steelworks in Rotherham, has won Britain's most prestigious building award, the RIBA's Stirling Prize. The popular lottery-funded project, designed by Wilkinson Eyre, beat the even more popular Eden Centre in Cornwall, designed by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, to ...
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Take me back, Rogers urges Welsh assembly
Sacked architect asks for a second chance, saying sharp rise in cost was because extra items were added.
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The invisible men
The government claims to be clamping down on illegal immigrants, so why is it apparently ignoring the thousands of foreign workers coming into the country to work on construction sites? A Building investigation suggests the situation is all too convenient …
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Courting disaster?
So, who's the bad boy of global warming – the car industry, or construction? It's all to play for
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The specialists
They're the guv'nors: the guys who get things sorted. Without their expertise, knowledge, talent and understanding of materials nothing would get built.
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Four in race for MoD's £442m Scottish deal
Four consortiums have been shortlisted to tender for the Ministry of Defence's first prime contract in Scotland.
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Industry cool on new Railtrack
The industry has reacted coolly to government proposals that could lead to contractors being represented in Railtrack's replacement company.
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Jowell to review stadium procurement
The government intends to review how sporting projects are planned after the decision not to proceed with the proposed athletics stadium at Picketts Lock.Tessa Jowell, the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, announced the decision this week in a meeting at the Commons. She said the review would ...
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Laing shareholders approve O'Rourke deal
Laing shareholders this week formally approved the sale of the group's construction arm to subcontractor Ray O'Rourke for £1.
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Second helping
This £700,000 Italian bar and restaurant in Baker Street, central London, is architect Jestico + Whiles' second project for restaurateur Sami Wasis. Its other one was Hakkasan, off Tottenham Court Road, which was completed last year. The centrepiece of the 400 m2 building is three concave shells on the ground ...
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Confederation refuses to back roving reps
The Construction Confederation has re-affirmed its opposition to plans for roving health and safety representatives after a meeting to discuss a pilot scheme.
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Apprentices to get better deal
Construction apprentices can expect better pay and conditions under a new wage structure to be negotiated by the Construction Industry Joint Council next month.
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Confederation to rejoin European group
The Construction Confederation is to rejoin the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC) at the turn of the year, following a six-year self-imposed absence.
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Yorkon to build 49 prefab Tesco stores
Prefabrication specialist Yorkon and supermarket giant Tesco have signed a partnership agreement to build 49 "Express" stores over the next 12 months.
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Fitting tribute
The office of e-commerce firm Imagine and Evolution has won this year's British Council for Offices fit-out award for the South-east region. The £925,000 City of London scheme, designed by GMW Partnership, has two work areas, meeting rooms and seating areas. The project team included contractor Ibex Interiors, QS Davis ...