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Fight, fight, fight! (productively)
The trouble with advocates of single-stage competitive tendering and the collaborative crowd, is that they are both coming from the extreme end of their respective spectrums
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Don鈥檛 get the wrong idea
I enjoyed the interview with Steven Morgan of BAA (26 June, page 26), but it was easy to misinterpret what he had to say about frameworks and collaborative working
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Do your own dirty work: Land remediation
Cleaning up contaminated land is one of the more scary tasks that developers face, so it鈥檚 vital to make sure that your contract is up to snuff. Here鈥檚 how to do it
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Find the combination
Looking behind the headlines (26 June, page 26), I wonder if BAA is really looking to 鈥渄itch鈥� frameworks or to question how and where they are used and to what effect?
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CommentChelsea changed everything
The fall of Rogers鈥� Chelsea Barracks scheme was not so much the cause of an enjoyable public row as the effect of a fundamental change in the way we do design
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Wonders & blunders
Guy Austin revels in Renault鈥檚 stunning underground Oxfordshire laboratory but a Hampshire new town is about as much fun as having your teeth drilled without anaesthetic
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CommentWhat would Aristotle do?
What a relief to read Steven Morgan鈥檚 views on procurement at BAA (26 June, page 26).
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Steve Morgan: fresh air not hot air
Someone that spoke to Steve Morgan shortly after he returned to Redrow via a boardroom coup in March said he was pretty upset by what he found.Or as Morgan himself might have put it: "F-cking furious".The scouser had been away from the company he founded in 1974 for nine years, ...
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Recent housing data poses the question: Higher, Lower or Stick for prices?
The latest Halifax house price figures showing a 0.5% drop, stacked on top of recent data from Nationwide, Hometrack and a range of others, suggest that prices may be holding steady.But what should we read into that? Which way from here for prices? Will this period of relative stability (a) ...
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Hopes of a recovery on shaky ground
You鈥檇 be forgiven for thinking that the latest CIPS/Markit Purchasing Managers鈥� Index (PMI) would provide a better read than June鈥檚 figures. After seeing the rate of contraction ease consecutively for four months, the PMI took a turn for the worse fuelling speculation of a 鈥榳-shaped鈥� recession.Coming in with a reading ...
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Little respite from the worse recession on record
Despite all the talk of 鈥済reen shoots鈥� over the last few months, it was apparent that this recession was going to be harsh from the offset and our forecasts for the industry over past year have suggested this. This week sees the release of our latest forecasts and it makes ...
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星空传媒 Britain's Future promises 45,000 new jobs building homes - That can't be right
Has anyone else prodded the sums on the 45,000 new jobs promised in the 星空传媒 Britain's Future document as a result of the 拢1.5 billion pledged to stimulate building of 20,000 social and 10,000 private homes?I would have had a poke at them earlier but I was sunning myself for ...
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Recession may cost 800,000 construction jobs - that's one in three
The latest forecast from the Construction Products Association puts the annual peak to trough fall in construction at a shade above 20%.That probably translates to a 22% to 23% fall peak to trough on a quarterly basis, which compares with the 15% seen in the 1990s recession.This is a sharp ...
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What can you get for 拢1.5bn?
Hard to say how many votes it will win him, but Gordon Brown鈥檚 拢1.5bn contribution to the Homes and Communities Agency deserves a few cheers from the construction industry. The money is intended to deliver 20,000 affordable homes and build the infrastructure to stimulate another 10,000 private ones. The government ...
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What does it matter?
I read with interest the article written by Tony Bingham in your 26 June edition concerning the decree by the Office of Government Commerce that only one form of contract should be used for all public work, namely NEC3. In the recent past, I have delivered a number of training ...
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Raising the standard: International procurement standards
In a recession, a standard for procurement for construction contracts could be just what the industry needs. So what do the draft rules say, and what would they achieve?
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