All articles by Building news desk – Page 6
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NewsGovernment reshuffle: Hancock takes construction role
Michael Gove exits education; Matt Hancock takes construction brief; Brandon Lewis becomes housing and planning minister
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FeaturesThis is why they’re supporting Building’s Agenda 15 ...
At the start of the year Building launched its Agenda 15 campaign - an attempt to pull together a manifesto for construction in advance of the next election. In reaction, the industry’s largest organisations have sent us messages of support, highlighting important issues for the political parties to address
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NewsBuilding journalists honoured at IBP Awards
Writers win Feature Writer of the Year and Young Journalist of the Year
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NewsRICS investigates 'inappropriate' behaviour among staff
Two employees exit the Institution’s dispute resolution department
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NewsConnaught's debts could reach £100m
Administrators find 50,000 missing invoices from suppliers and say there’s only £600,000 to pay unsecured creditors
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NewsOsborne’s axe fells schools and housing
Education capital funding to fall 60% and housing 70% as chancellor takes hatchet to public sector
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NewsTransport cuts: funding down 11%
Department gets off relatively lightly with spend reduced to £7.5bn by 2014-15
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NewsSpending Review: List of major projects given the green light
List of projects across the country given the go-ahead in the Spending Review document
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NewsChancellor slashes capital budgets
Capital budgets across government departments have been fallen by up to 74%
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News2010 Budget as it happened
Live coverage of the chancellor's pre-election Budget and what it means for construction
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NewsBudget fails to lift gloom over growth of national debt
Industry welcomes measures to soften impact of downturn but fears dramatic cuts in the future
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NewsHousing gloom after US bank crashes
Housebuilders prepare for tough market conditions as lenders tighten mortgage criteria
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NewsTaylor Wimpey: the deal of the decade
It is the merger that has been tipped, on and off, for the best part of a decade, but few would have thought that a £5bn deal between Taylor Woodrow and Wimpey to create the UK’s largest housebuilder would finally be hatched in a “dingy roadside cafe on the M40”.