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Green space, clean air and community lead the wish list for new homes, with the surrounding landscape valued above how buildings look
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Build a happier, productive, and more efficient workforce, ready to deliver at scale
The £6 Billion Question: Why is construction still paying like it’s 1999?
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Home /Blog
Posted 16th August 2018
Flood protection and prevention needs a structural change
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Posted 24th July 2018
Criminally Overlooked: Ex-Offenders in Construction by Andy Gullick, RIFT Social Enterprise
Posted 14th June 2018
dispute through mediation by Niall Lawless Chair of the CIC Adjudicator Nominating Body Management Board
Posted 3rd May 2018
Raising awareness of how architects, planners and designers can help phobia sufferers
Posted 5th April 2018
My name is Cath and I’m an Engineer…a disabled engineer at that
Posted 7th March 2018
by Niall Lawless, Chartered Arbitrator and Engineer, Adjudicator, Mediator
Posted 9th February 2018
Learn more about the new British Standard by Julie Fleck OBE
Posted 17th January 2018
James Hutchinson Partner at Beale & Company provides some background on this matter and sets out guidance in relation…
Posted 9th November 2017
the Relationship
Posted 26th October 2017
aren’t progressing
Posted 21st September 2017
By Andy Dean from BS2B
Posted 18th August 2017
Handing over projects from the project phase to the business as usual environment is often perceived as the end of the…
