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Get paid on time
Nick Antoniou - How can businesses protect themselves against late or non-payment of invoices?
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Five things you should know about work-related stress
What is the scale of the problem?Stress-related absenteeism costs an estimated £4bn a year and is the biggest occupational health problem in the UK after musculoskeletal disorders such as back complaints. The CBI estimates that 30 times as many days are lost from mental ill-health as from industrial disputes.Who does ...
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Alternative medicine
Ann Minogue - Some of the touted alternatives to retention are not all they're cracked up to be – but there are other ways to overcome the ills that they seek to remedy
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Your word against mine
Tony Bingham - When is a dispute not a dispute? When you call it a matter of dissatisfaction and shoo away any adjudicators that arrive to investigate
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Judges beware
Tim Elliott - Why the Court of Appeal overruled a judge's decision, made in the spirit of the Woolf reforms, to strike out claims because they were unlikely to succeed
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Truth and consequences
Melinda Parisotti - Exemption of liability for consequential losses is contentious - its meaning is often unclear and it may not provide the protection that firms think it will
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Bending the rules
Only five wooden gridshells have ever been built, and none without broken timbers. Here's how the team behind this one, the roof of a Sussex museum, is cracking the conundrum.
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Opening night
Given the weather we've had, a roof that opens to the elements may not be everyone's idea of happiness, but for a view of the stars, there are few things to beat it.
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On the ropes
Dan Bailey - Abseiling isn't yet widely used in construction, but it offers big benefits to contractors.
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Talent wars
Angela Baron takes a look at how employers should tackle the skills shortage to attract – and keep hold of – the high-flyers that their business really needs.
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Appointments
ContractorsWilliam Sapcote & Sons has promoted Ian Burford to development director. Paul Dockerill and Keith Learoyd have been promoted to associate directors.NG Bailey & Co has appointed Alison Ashworth-Brown craft training department manager. HousebuildersDavid Hill, previously with Lovell Partnerships, has joined Redrow Homes' South Wales division as a quantity surveyor. ...
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£1.5bn Elephant & Castle plan hits funding crisis
Southwark council appeals for government permission to spend £15m on high-profile regeneration scheme.
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Holyrood to break £195m cap
The Scottish parliament is set to admit that the cost of the Holyrood parliament building will break the £195m cap set in April last year.
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Industry questions role of Egan safety taskforce
Construction bodies fear fragmentation of safety agenda as DETR announces "compromise".
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Multiplex awaits Wembley fate
the future of Australian contractor Multiplex's bid for the troubled Wembley National Stadium is to be decided next week.
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Lords overturns High Court's call in ruling
The House of Lords has overturned a landmark High Court ruling that the DETR's right to call in planning applications breaches the Human Rights Act.
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Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth campaigners staged a protest over the building of the controversial Ilisu Dam in Turkey at Balfour Beatty's annual meeting last week.
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Western block
Development Securities has won planning permission for this £15m office and retail scheme at 333 Oxford Street in central London.
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Former Atkins boss joins Connaught
Former WS Atkins deputy chief executive David James has joined Connaught, a facilities management consultancy listed on the Alternative Investment Market, as chairman.