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NewsGrainger inks deal for private rented development push
Listed landlord signs deal with regeneration specialist Sigma to pursue private rented development opportunities
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NewsSpecialist contractors' enquiry levels hit record high
But latest NSCC state of trade survey finds sector is finding it increasingly hard to souce skilled labour
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NewsHighways Agency awards £5bn framework
Contractors and professional design firms win places on five-year framework
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NewsConstruction grows for sixth straight quarter
Growth across commercial and industrial sectors makes up for slowdown in private housing, according to latest CPA survey
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NewsQataris 'preparing to up offer' for Canary Wharf
Qatar Investment Authority and Brookfield plan to raise offer after initial approach rejected, according to report
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NewsConsultants 'exasperated' after £750m framework scrapped
Bidders on UK SBS framework consider legal action to recoup their costs
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NewsUK SBS cancels £750m public sector consultants framework
Decision taken following resolution of legal challenge by T T last month
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NewsBovis Homes forecasts profit and price rises
Housebuilder expects increase in sales of around 30% in 2014
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NewsBerkeley launches London JV with National Grid
Housebuilder and electricity infrastructure giant form St William Homes to develop brownfield sites
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NewsGalliford's Miller integration costs fall
Contractor reports that it will spend less than £4m integrating Miller, which it acquired in July
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NewsCanary Wharf owners reject takeover offer
Qatar Investment Authority and Brookfield Property Partners rebuffed for “significantly undervaluing” the firm
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CommentHansom: Every breath you take
London’s Battersea Power Station development gets its first celebrity tenant, a huge game of Monopoly raises a shedload of (real) cash and polystyrene goes the way of Opal Fruits and Marathon bars with a rebrand
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FeaturesContractors: The tipping point
After years of clients worrying about subcontractors’ health, suddenly it’s main contractors that seem to be in trouble, caught out by rising costs on fixed price jobs. Building reports on a nervous time of profit warnings and senior management departures
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NewsCH2M Hill to slash 100 UK jobs in global restructure
Exclusive: Engineer to axe jobs in UK buildings and urban programmes divisions while closing Edinburgh office
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NewsCoalition row slows zero-carbon exemption plans
Ministers fail to agree over size of ‘small’ housing developments that will be exempt from zero-carbon homes standard
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NewsBenoy to design major Chengdu development
Architect wins design competition for mixed use development in Sichuan province
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NewsLipton Rogers closes in on deal to revive stalled Pinnacle tower
Exclusive: Sir Stuart Lipton-led design team close to taking over mothballed tower, with “helter skelter” design to be scrapped
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CommentSteering through to the silver linings
Profit warnings, management team restructuring and problem jobs may be making the headlines. But there are still positives to take from the industry’s current standing
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FeaturesSketch of the week: One Church Square
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by architects and urban designers Paul Davis + Partners.
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FeaturesThis week in 1850
The restructuring of the Palace of Westminster is hit by delays, cost overruns and controversy