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FeaturesWhat to specify: Off-site
This week Tonbridge Grammar School gets a new sixth form study area, Essex County Cricket Club gets 36 balconies and a dementia care home with a clover leaf layout is given a new exterior finish
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CommentWhy is there such cost variation in social housing?
An HCA report signals a change in how it scrutinises value for money achieved by housing associations
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NewsHS2 to go ahead says transport minister
Chris Grayling said he has “no plans to back away” from HS2
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NewsBritish Land expects 'cautious' investors post-referendum
The developer reported that its current portfolio only contains 4% of speculative development
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NewsHousing and construction strategy ministers appointed
Gavin Barwell and Ben Gummer take key junior minister roles
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NewsHousing target should be 300,000 a year, say peers
House of Lords report delivers stinging rebuke of government housing policy
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CommentBuilding cost managers need to keep up
In an age of smart tech, the role of the building services cost manager is changing fast
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NewsBalfour Beatty confirmed on £1bn One Nine Elms
The Chinese developer has also secured the bulk of the financing for the project
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NewsGatwick plans £200m upgrade as Khan backs it over Heathrow
Sadiq Khan announces the investment and renews support for second runway
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NewsSellar lops 58 storeys off Paddington Pole
The new £775m plans have turned the pole into a cube
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NewsConstruction 'riding high in April, shot down in May'
Industry output falls 2.1% month-on-month
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NewsCrossrail approaching 75% complete
Major milestone at Liverpool Street station as platforms are pieced together
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QPR wins planning for £175m Old Oak scheme
Genesis Housing and QPR football club have won approval for 605 new homes in the West London regeneration area
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CommentWellbeing: Going mainstream
It’s time for all of us to talk the language of health and wellbeing
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CommentHansom: Going up in the world
Despite crashing markets, many things are on the rise, from the social climbers at The Ivy, to house prices for Europhiles, the appeal of upping sticks for New Zealand, and a really massive pile of cous cous
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CommentReading the signals from our new PM
Theresa May’s abrupt arrival in Britain’s top job should, at the very least, restore some sense of stability to the country’s leadership
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FeaturesInterview: Tony Giddings
Few people have done more to change the face of the UK’s cities than Tony Giddings, who stood down as partner at Argent at the end of last year
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NewsGiddings is adviser on £1.3bn ‘super prisons’
The first of the new super prisons is already being built in Wrexham
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FeaturesImage of the week: Leaving through the back door
A removal van drives to the back of 10 Downing Street
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Gibraltar
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Alex Chan, associate at The Manser Practice