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Market review: Infrastructure steps up
The Budget delivered more cash for infrastructure – which accounted for the biggest share of new contracts in November – but forecasts were downgraded
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Analysis: Opinion split over Hackitt's Grenfell review
Head of review of Ðǿմ«Ã½ Regulations and fire safety defends lack of detailed recommendations and says industry must take more responsibility
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What to specify: Roofing
A lightweight steel roofing and cladding system, tile-look slates and a plug-and-play electronic rooflight system are among these featured productsÂ
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Fit-out firm BW sets out growth plans
BW sizing up bigger jobs and overseas alliances as it aims to push income to a ‘comfortable’ £250m
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City focus: Chicago
Chicago is aiming to use its technical and communications nous to attract people and investment back to the ‘windy city’
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Zero hour: Ðǿմ«Ã½'s predictions for 2018
With growth predictions for 2018 as dire as 0%, there are reasons to feel trepidation. But at the start of this year, there are signs of positivity
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Projects: US Embassy - Safe house
Architect Kieran Timberlake’s new US Embassy is set to become the centrepiece of Battersea’s Nine Elms regeneration
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Barometer - November 2017 data now available
The latest Barometer statistics are now available to view. You’ll find interactive, sortable league tables of contract wins on our Barometer site:
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Review 2017: Sixpence in the pudding - mergers, takeovers and buyouts
The year saw a revival of the tradition of mergers and acquisitions in the construction sector, after the Brexit vote malaise marred 2016.
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Review 2017: Crackers to cheer the spirit - so, what’s the good news?
It hasn’t been all doom and gloom
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Review 2017: Speech! - the year’s aptest quotes
From George Osborne to Lord Stunell, some of the quotes from 2017 in construction
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Review 2017: Family rows - legal spats
It’s the season of goodwill, but that’s unlikely to bring an end to the rows that have blighted the construction industry family this year
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Review 2017: A toast to absent friends - in memorium
From Anna Stewart to Sir Michael Latham, the industry has lost some of its greats this year
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Review 2017: The overcooked sprouts - those who felt the economic heat
If there’s a list of big losers from 2017, then there’s not much doubt that £5.2bn-turnover contractor Carillion is at the top of it
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Review 2017: Did you forget the bread sauce again? - unfulfilled expectations
As well as outright failures there were a number of less dramatic setbacks, delays and disappointments on key projects in 2017
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Ðǿմ«Ã½'s review of the year 2017
It wasn’t exactly the year that knocked the stuffing out of construction, but nor was it the grand feast many had hoped for. The Ðǿմ«Ã½ news desk reviews the year in construction
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Review 2017: Dry turkey - a year of disappointments
The big disappointment of the year was, without doubt, the story on the two big-picture issues that define the environment in which our industry works
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Review 2017: A painful topic nobody can avoid
Whatever else might have happened in 2017, the construction industry was never going to be able to look back with pleasure
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Projects of the year: 2017 in review
Source: Riverfilm / Martin Richardson PLP Architecture’s 22 Bishopsgate This year’s striking schemes include AL_A at the V A museum, Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg HQ, and Herzog de Meuron’s triumph over chaos in Hamburg