All articles by Tom Broughton 鈥� Page 24
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Warranty row mars launch of anti-cowboy scheme
Builders claim customer guarantee requirement will discourage builders from signing up to quality mark.
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Constructionline to launch advertising push
Public sector clients and contractors to be targeted in drive to create single comprehensive register for UK.
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Government set to insist on training quotas
Transport minister considering quotas to head off labour problems experienced on the Jubilee Line.
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MCG to publish safety details
The Major Contractors Group is set to publish reports into its members' safety performance within the next two weeks.
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Treasury looks to stamp out lowest price tendering
Government to examine claims by subcontractors that public-sector clients still look for cheapest quote.
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NFB calls on members to lead safety reforms
New chairman's call comes as Quarry Products Association prepares to launch "safety passport" initiative.
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West can build homes in Third World, RICS tells UN
Institution calls on governments to provide housebuilders with tax breaks to help world housing crisis.
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Bovis Lend Lease sues for 拢38m over Braehead
Contractor issues writ against client for Scotland's largest shopping centre over claim for variation expenses.
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CITB sets tough new targets
women and ethnic minorities will make up half of all recruits into the building industry by 2005 the Construction Industry Training Board pledged this week.
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Steel group plans safety checklist
main Contractors will soon be forced to complete a safety checklist before handing over a site to steel contractors.
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New league table puts contractors in dock again
Totty Construction comes bottom in list ranking firms on partnering with specialist contractors.
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Dixon Jones told to 'totally redesign' Oxford project
City planners object to mixed-use development overshadowing 11th-century castle mound.
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Scottish body calls for cowboy horror stories
Trade body Scottish 精东影视 has stepped up its campaign against cowboy builders by calling on 20 local associations to provide evidence of bad practice.
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Can Labour tackle the skills shortage?
The New Deal for young unemployed people was one of New Labour's big ideas. Three years later, and with an argument still raging about its success, the party plans to revamp it to solve construction's recruitment crisis.
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Row erupts over failed Luton lottery project
拢25m-turnover local contractor threatens council with judicial review over 拢4m arts centre.
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Wembley design team suspended by WNSL
Funding crisis and government rethink on project leaves design team and contractor Multiplex in limbo.
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Labour to target New Deal at construction skills crisis
Construction is one of five sectors singled out for training overhaul to raise output of workers.
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To Hull and back
Two years after John Prescott took Lord Rogers on a tour of a run-down estate in Hull, Tom Broughton visited the city to find out if things had changed. He found an urban renaissance barely able to keep pace with the disillusionment of residents.
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Holyrood to break 拢195m cap
The Scottish parliament is set to admit that the cost of the Holyrood parliament building will break the 拢195m cap set in April last year.
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Priestley to run NHS sell-off
NHS Estates chief executive Kate Priestley has stepped down so that she can oversee the 拢650m sell-off of its property portfolio.