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Broadway Malyan defends Met Office design
Architect Broadway Malyan has defended its proposed design for the £60m Meteorological Office headquarters from criticism by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
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Mixed use scheme, east London
Stock Woolstencroft has won provisional planning consent on this £12m mixed residential and commercial scheme in Wapping.
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CIB closure may lead to new conflict, warns Latham
Author of Latham Report calls for creation of new body to maintain partnering ethos in industry.
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Fairview raises production to repay £300m loan
Private housebuilder aims to double production and raise selling prices as part of a five-year repayment plan.
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Boot resigned to 1% construction margins
Henry Boot managing director Jamie Boot this week admitted that the group was resigned to making construction and civil engineering margins of less than 1%.
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Knowles forced to insure after losses of £250,000
Construction consultancy group James R Knowles has been forced to take out credit insurance after losing £250,000 from bad debts in the six months to 31 January.
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Wilcon boss warns of more mergers
More consolidation on way as Wilcon buys Wainhomes for £132.5m.
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Anglian tightens Morrison alliance
Morrison owner AWG, formerly Anglian Water, has restructured the Scottish group's international construction division to focus on servicing its own utility operations.
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NBA Quantum expands into USA
Aim-listed construction consultancy NBA Quantum has moved into the US market with the purchase of Washington-based DMS International for £1.28m.
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Home improver
Birmingham council's David Thompson is passionate about giving people better places to live. Which is why he's handing over 92,000 homes to the private sector.
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For what it's worth …
Gus Alexander - Abolishing the RIBA advisory fee scale, as the government wants, is another sign of our crass inability to appreciate the value of good design
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Foot and mouth: The forgotten victims
For weeks, our TV screens and newspapers have been filled with images of the havoc wreaked by foot and mouth on agriculture and tourism. But the effects of the disease on rural builders are no less devastating. Tom Broughton visited Carlisle, one of the worst-affected areas.
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Letter from Moscow
Peter Titus - Contrary to what you've heard, Russia's capital is a great place to work. But bring your mittens
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Five ways to keep your staff happy
Let clients dictate the pace of workEmployees don't like it one bit if their managers put the pressure on. They are much more likely to work hard and long hours if they know it is because of customer demand.Small freedomsThese can be as apparently insignificant as moving the desk, controlling ...
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Here's the hard part
Building's Client profile series returns with EasyEverything, the cybercafe that's planning to open 50 stores every year for the next three. The good news is, it's looking to partner. The bad news is, everything is easy except getting work for it.
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Looking on the dark side
Patrick Holmes - Stock market dives have sparked fears of recession. So, if the economy does turn down, who's going to lose out? And what can they do about it?
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You're asking for it
Tony Bingham - Adjudicators can only do what they are asked to do, so if you don't get the wording right in the referral notice, you're likely to come unstuck
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From beyond the grave …
Julian Holloway - A Court of Appeal decision on a negligence case may mean that contractors and architects are liable for claims they thought were dead and buried
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Day of the triffids
Simon Tolson - Contamination doesn't just apply to toxic chemicals. It can apply to hazardous plants and weeds that have to be removed. Worse, the contractor can end up paying