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FeaturesThe commercial sector: Ready, steady …
Optimism that the private commercial sector is bouncing back is growing - all we need now are some projects
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NewsKeepmoat takes private residential arm into the South
Firm expands into the South of England to take advantage of rising market
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CommentSave as You Pay - or not?
We need to develop a precise science of ‘energy auditing’ to take retrofit programmes to next level
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NewsBam's Co-Op HQ wins top RICS award
Judges impressed with sustainable design of One Angel Square
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NewsMortgage lending at highest level for five years
Quarterly figures from the CML show lending up by a third on 2012
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NewsNew deal on Bristol Temple Meads station revamp
Mayor George Ferguson hails 25-year development agreement by Network Rail and others
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NewsMCC members back £200m Lord's plan
Populous-designed scheme set to go ahead after internal challenge is defeated
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NewsBenoy's £200m Telford scheme wins planning
Project for developer Sovereign Land expected to generate 1,000 construction jobs
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CommentThe benefit of experience
Age may not lead to wisdom, but looking back at her days as a junior solicitor Ann Minogue finds that she now has some of the answers to the things she did not understand back then
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CommentWonders and Blunders with Richard Shennan
Richard Shennan is restored by the sight of the Royal College of Physicians building in Regent’s Park, but Calatrava’s Valencia opera house gives a poor performance in the long term
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CommentMy digital life … Professor David Philp
Mace’s head of BIM likes to send out culinary tweets, wishes he had a ‘Hackintosh’ and stays away from Facebook
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NewsLabour inspectors barred at Vinci’s Qatar site
International inspectors gathering evidence on conditions of Qatar construction workers turned away by officials
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CommentGlobal measurement standards are key to recovery
By creating a level playing field for the way property is measured, valued and reported in financial statements we’re likely to see a more stable global market
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NewsMajority of individuals on blacklist still need to be identified
Over four-fifths of people on construction blacklist remain unidentified almost five years after its discovery
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CommentChoose your weapon
A contractor used a procedural trap to try to torpedo an adjudicator’s decision against it. Unfortunately for the contractor, it blew up in its face
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CommentThorns in the green shoots
Contractors are still using some of the dirty tricks they learned in the depths of recession to squeeze supply chains. But they may not get away with it for much longer
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CommentUnchartered territory
There’s plenty of enthusiasm among sustainability professionals, but it may take a new professional chartership to make our message heard
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NewsFive firms to compete for Horizon nuclear framework
Exclusive: Firms in running to provide services including site development, planning and waste management on £10bn Wyfla nuclear project
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FeaturesFrom the archive: The Crystal Palace
As London prepares for the Crystal Palace to rise again, we take a look back into our archive at how the project was received first time around
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CommentHS2: Full steam ahead
The case for HS2 is strong, but successful delivery will depend on investing in the right cost and project management skills - not to mention getting cross-party concensus