All News Analysis articles – Page 4
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FeaturesAnalysis: the rise of the mid-rise
Dame Judith Hackitt’s review into fire safety – prompted by the Grenfell disaster – will have consequences for every aspect of how we build homes. Many of the potential changes will favour the medium-sized building
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Features‘This was a house of cards that could fall down at any moment’
Invited by MPs this week to explain how the construction and FM giant collapsed so precipitously, the firm’s former bosses revealed something of the mess they got themselves into
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FeaturesCarillion: Questions to be answered
Ahead of next week’s Select Committee grilling of Carillion’s directors, Joey Gardiner delves into the £5bn contractor’s accounting practices and how it got itself into such an unholy mess
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FeaturesAnalysis: Housing benefits
Help to Buy is the government’s big leg-up to help housebuilders increase output. So news of ‘obscene’ executive pay along with scandals over leaseholds and defects are not going down well
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FeaturesCarillion: counting the cost
Carillion’s collapse has left 30,000 subcontractors out of pocket to the tune of £1.2bn. How was the contractor allowed to get away with ths?
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FeaturesCarillion Analysis: The fall of a titan
Carillion was once a colossus that bestrode the construction world. Now it’s bust. The question on everyone’s lips is, how could this happen?
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FeaturesHackitt Review: 'We can't carry on as before'
The Hackitt interim report holds out the prospect of a profound change in the way construction does business. Is industry ready for it?
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FeaturesAnalysis: Opinion split over Hackitt's Grenfell review
Head of review of Building Regulations and fire safety defends lack of detailed recommendations and says industry must take more responsibility
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FeaturesCITB: Getting training into shape
After a turbulent year, the CITB is to reinvent itself as a co-ordinator of skills delivery rather than a direct provider. Can a smaller CITB better tackle the industry’s big skills crisis?
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FeaturesCladding sector: Think you've got it covered?
Several cladding firms may have fallen in recent years, but the collapse of Lakesmere this month came as a shock. If this can happen to the biggest firm in the sector – one seemingly in robust health – how worried should the others be?
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FeaturesContractors' Salary Survey 2017: Taking a rain check
Construction salaries are growing faster than most sectors as employers struggle to fill skills gaps, but worries over job security mean people are wary of making a move
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FeaturesBudget 2017 preview: Something's gotta give
As the chancellor gears up for the Autumn Budget, he is under pressure to ease austerity, potentially taking the focus away from big-ticket construction projects. David Blackman reports on what the industry wants from the Budget versus what it is likely to see
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FeaturesInterserve counting the cost of energy-from-waste exit: where did it go wrong?
Interserve has admitted that the cost of quitting the energy-from-waste sector would cost it close to £200m. How on earth did it get into this mess?
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FeaturesHousebuilders' Salary Survey 2017: On the up and up
With fears of a housebuilding downturn in abeyance, skills shortages are helping drive up salaries, especially outside London
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FeaturesCarillion: back to black?
Haemorrhaging both money and management, Carillion’s position evokes that of now-healthy Balfour Beatty three years back. What lessons can it learn from Balfour’s recovery?
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FeaturesFarmer Review one year on - how has the industry responded?
A year on from Mark Farmer’s dramatic warning that construction must modernise or die, how has the industry responded to the challenge?
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FeaturesParty conferences 2017 round-up: home truths
Did last week’s Conservative Party conference do enough to persuade the industry that the government has what it takes to solve the housing crisis?
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FeaturesHousing: the backlash begins
A proposal to bring in an objective calculation of how many homes each council must build is ruffling feathers in Tory heartlands and traditional Labour councils alike. But will a politically fragile government risk pushing through a policy that’s unlikely to do much to boost housing growth?
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FeaturesPalace of Westminster: stopping the rot
The creaky old Palace of Westminster is now in a state of dangerous disrepair – but political concerns around the timing of renovation work mean a start date keeps slipping further into the never never.
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FeaturesLessons from Grenfell
As the inquiries into the Grenfell Tower fire get under way, Joey Gardiner looks at the construction issues that may have played a part in the tragedy and asks what the industry hopes to learn