All articles by Sarah Richardson – Page 8
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Capita and DTZ sign up for free schools programme
Consultants join law firm Dickinson Dees in taking roles on first wave of controversial scheme
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Education department to offer up its buildings to free schools
Government’s Education White Paper acknowledges difficulty over securing premises for flagship programme
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Contractors wrestle for Rok
Source close to sale says 10-15 firms are in talks; Collapse leaves £100m owing to supply chain
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Construction firms spared squeeze on government jobs
Cabinet Office will demand efficiency savings not price cuts from building contractors
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Insurance giants left in the lurch by Rok collapse
Axa, Tesco and Aegas eye alternative suppliers; Sale of social housing division speeded up
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FM contractors demand rebates from suppliers
Carillion and Norland among facilities management firms asking supply chain for money back
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Industry ‘asked to leave’ government client group
Two leading industry figures go as part of Paul Morrell’s shake up at the Public Sector Construction Clients forum
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Schools urged to be ‘realistic’ after 40% cuts
Contractors have urged local authorities to be “realistic” about the scope of current schools projects after the government asked supply chains to slash 40% off the cost of schemes
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Athletes’ village delivery director leaves Bovis
Bovis Lend Lease’s delivery director for the 2012 athletes’ village has become the latest high-profile figure to leave the company
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Education cuts: Capital spending on schools to fall 60%
The spending review was worse for education than many expected
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Make schools not war
The escalating battle between Michael Gove and councils taking legal action over BSF threatens to become a drawn out conflict – the perfect excuse to delay school building further
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First free school pupils face prefab classrooms
Flagship school policy struggles with first test as projects deemed too complex for 2011 completion
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Interview with WSP's Paul Dollin: Cheer leader
Paul Dollin, WSP’s enthusiastic new UK boss, has no intention of ’waking up American’. So the former Atkins man intends to grow the UK business by pushing even harder into infrastructure, particularly rail and nuclear. Just don’t expect to see any more Shards going up
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Fourth council launches legal action against BSF cancellation
Sandwell joins Nottingham, Luton and Waltham Forest in seeking judicial review of government decision to axe £55bn scheme
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Wates and McAlpine compete for first fast-track school
Contractors shortlisted for £10.5m Campsmount project in Doncaster
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Higgins defends decision to leave ODA
David Higgins, the Olympic boss who has been appointed chief executive of Network Rail, has said it was the “complexity of the organisation and its projects” that lured him to the role
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Question time for Cameron
The Tory conference is going to be subjected to minute scrutiny in the hope that ministers will fill in some of the many blanks in policy. Sarah Richardson and Roxane McMeeken list the most important
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Fast-track schools trial to use academies framework
Fifteen qualified contractors hope list will be preferred route for future government spending
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Kicking out the jams: Academies framework
If contractors were peeved at not being on the academies framework before, they’ll be shedding some tears after the latest piece of news…
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Fast-track schools trial to use academies framework
Fifteen qualified contractors hope list will be preferred route for future government spending