All articles by Joey Gardiner – Page 37
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Features
Back to school: Summing up the savings
What effect will changes to funding have on the construction and education sectors, and what precedent it could set for the future?
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News
DfE ‘seeks billions to fund school building programme’
Funding bid to Treasury for third phase to £4.4bn PSBP follows £900m cut to school building budgets
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PFI successor funds just six schemes since 2012
Worries grow about disappearance of procurement model that has funded more than 700 projects worth £60bn since the 1990s
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Carillion rivals say staff are ready to leave troubled firm
Contractors report ‘steady stream’ of Carillion workers’ CVs as fears grow that pension deficit will deter investors
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Carillion: A cautionary tale
The UK’s second-biggest contractor has posted some pretty alarming figures recently, from its £695m debt to its £845m writedown. But how did it get into this state, how can it get out again, and what does it mean for the wider industry?
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News
Contractors still struggling to hike margins over the 2% mark
ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s Top 150 contractors and housebuilder surveys reveals margins are up but fall short of firms’ targets
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Retrofitting housing blocks could cost billions of pounds
Each tower could cost £20m to upgrade to required fire safety standards
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Features
In Grenfell’s shadow
After the immediate shock of the Grenfell Tower fire, local authorities and housing associations are trying to work out what it all means for the social housing sector. Joey Gardiner reports
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Features
How Brexit got personal
The focus of Brexit so far has been the possible impact on construction’s growing skills shortage. But how is the UK’s vote to leave affecting the EU nationals themselves and what can employers do to ensure that they stay?
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‘Projects won’t be delivered’
With the industry dependent on EU workers, major restrictions on immigration as part of a ‘hard Brexit’ could be disastrous
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CCS framework: No pain, no gain
The industry has waited a long time for the government’s £2.9bn construction consultancy framework. But doubts remain that all the problems have been ironed out. So will the wait have been worth it for the 32 firms on the scheme?
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Features
Economy watch: Output declines
Output has fallen month on month but levels of investment are continuing to rise
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Comment
Construction’s candidate: David Darkin
The last of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s series of interviews with the construction professionals standing in the general election
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Comment
A week in the election
The Conservatives have dropped Crossrail 2 from their manifesto while the Institue for Fiscal Studies has derided both major parties
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Features
Economy watch: Inflation on the rise
A CBI survey of manufacturers shows that output is up - and it’s not just due to sterling’s fall in value
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Comment
Construction’s candidate: Bernard Hyde
The second of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s series of interviews with the construction professionals standing in the general election
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News
Experts cast doubts on Tory pledge to build council homes
Manifesto commitment to build a new generation of social housing undermined by lack of funding and targets
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Comment
A week in the election
The three major parties’ manifestos are out but campaigning was suspended in the wake of the Manchester attack
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Features
Conservative manifesto: Council housing’s new best friend?
Offering little new for construction by way of infrastructure commitments, the Tory manifesto nevertheless surprised with its brazen parking of tanks on Labour’s lawn
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Features
Housebuilders' ground rent "scandal"
Government has now said it will crack down on ‘doubling’ leasehold ground rents, earlier in the year ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø investigated this controversial industry practice