All articles by Sophie Griffiths
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Features
We can’t turn a blind eye: Child labour
Children as young as six are working 12-hour days in some of India’s sandstone quarries. Yet many UK stone importers just don’t want to know about it. Sophie Griffiths reports on a scandal that is getting harder to ignore
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2012 polyclinic gets green light
Healthcare facility in athletes' village will provide services for community after the Games
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Dubai promises to pay back Dubai World creditors
Five to eight-year timetable set for repayment as government offers to back firm with own money
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Jarvis collapses as administrators move in
Banks pull plug on infrastructure firm despite recent railway contract win
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Greenwich gives go-ahead for Olympic horses on royal park
Park will host equestrian events but gees up opposition
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Scottish universities get 1.2% funding increase
£15.3m rise stands in contrast to budget cuts in England
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Balfour Beatty Hong Kong firm wins £407m rail contract
Gammon Construction to build 2.2km tunnel on West Island Line
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Leicestershire firm fined £10k over safety at height breaches
Cobham Advanced Composites pleades guilty after three employees worked at height without adequate safety measures
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RICS rethinks plans to quit CIC
The RICS has done a u-turn on plans to leave the Construction Industry Council
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StructureTone wins deal to finish troubled Shell Centre
US fit-out contractor bags £10m contract in wake of ISG’s acrimonious departure from £62m project
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OFT firms off the hook as councils ditch legal action
Leeds is first local authority to abandon plans after lawyers advise evidence is too weak for action
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Aukett + Heese to design 464-room Berlin hotel
German arm of Aukett Fitzroy Robinson wins contract for scheme, which is part of wider mixed-use development
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University building projects to be mothballed as funding is slashed
Cuts likely to affect three-quarters of English universities
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Galliford Try wins £28m Thames Water contract
Upgrade of sewage works will help clean up the Thames
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Boris approves Columbus Tower
London mayor approves plan for Tower Hamlets scheme on condition of £4m contribution to Crossrail
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Asda seeks £3.6m compensation over car park
Kier and owners of Castlepoint shopping centre latest to face claims over 'defective' retail developments
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Babcock close to VT takeover decision
Board of defence services firm reported to be meeting this afternoon to decide whether to raise £1.3bn for buyout
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Corus fined £100k over crane injury
Steel contractor found guilty of safety breach after overloaded crane overturned
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Tesco sends design and QS work to India
Fears raised over future of UK supply chain as supermarket giant outsources early project work