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    Analysis: the rise of the mid-rise

    2018-02-15T06:30:00Z

    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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    ‘This was a house of cards that could fall down at any moment’

    2018-02-08T06:30:00Z

    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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    Carillion: Questions to be answered

    2018-01-31T06:30:00Z

    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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    Analysis: Housing benefits

    2018-01-26T06:30:00Z

    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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    Carillion: counting the cost

    2018-01-24T06:30:00Z

    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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    Carillion Analysis: The fall of a titan

    2018-01-18T06:00:00Z

    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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    Hackitt Review: 'We can't carry on as before'

    2018-01-11T07:00:00Z

    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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    Analysis: Opinion split over Hackitt's Grenfell review

    2018-01-05T07:00:00Z

    Head of review of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Regulations and fire safety defends lack of detailed recommendations and says industry must take more responsibility

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    CITB: Getting training into shape

    2017-11-30T07:00:00Z

    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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    Cladding sector: Think you've got it covered?

    2017-11-24T07:00:00Z

    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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    Contractors' Salary Survey 2017: Taking a rain check

    2017-11-17T05:00:00Z

    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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    Budget 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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    Interserve counting the cost of energy-from-waste exit: where did it go wrong?

    2017-11-03T06:00:00Z

    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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    Housebuilders' Salary Survey 2017: On the up and up

    2017-10-26T05:00:00Z

    With fears of a housebuilding downturn in abeyance, skills shortages are helping drive up salaries, especially outside London

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    Carillion: back to black?

    2017-10-19T05:00:00Z

    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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    Farmer Review one year on - how has the industry responded?

    2017-10-13T00:16:00Z

    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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    Party conferences 2017 round-up: home truths

    2017-10-12T06:00:00Z

    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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    Housing: the backlash begins

    2017-10-06T00:01:00Z

    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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    Palace of Westminster: stopping the rot

    2017-09-28T07:01:00Z

    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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    Lessons from Grenfell

    2017-09-19T15:41:00Z

    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