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NewsInsulating boards
Kingspan’s products were used on a house in Balham as they were the cheapest, thinnest and best performing for that application
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CommentFoster's flying circus grounded: Thames Estuary airport
Plans for an airport on the Thames Estuary have been around almost since the invention of the airplane. So let’s not get too carried away by the latest reincarnation, says Alastair Stewart
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NewsTerry Farrell plots new course for Battersea Power Station
Big name architect floats more piecemal approach after financial setback for current plan
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NewsCouncil drops Kier from £200m schools programme
Telford and Wrekin council to retender school projects worth £80m through academies framework
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NewsFibre cement material
Marley Eternit has launched Eter-Color, a new range of through coloured architectural fibre cement material
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CommentWe need small engineering companies
Small engineering companies have been pushed to the edge of extinction by the conforming imperatives of big business. But we need their talent and guts for our own survival
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NewsCowboy builder jailed for 16 months
Company director used an employee’s identity to open credit accounts and signed agreements in his name
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NewsConstruction output falls 1.1% in October
October output also down 2.7% on the same period last year
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ECA says members’ actions are ‘damaging’ the industry
Coalition of trade bodies puts pressure on breakaway electrical contractors such as NG Bailey over workers’ pay
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NewsHuhne to be quized on £1bn carbon capture funding
Chair of the Energy Select Committee demands answers on government plans for £1bn of funding
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NewsBerkeley profit up two thirds to over £100m
Housebuilder posts strong half-year results, partly thanks to sale of share in Imperial College London scheme
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NewsMorgan Sindall wins £145m Stockport regeneration scheme
Appointment raises prospect of long-awaited Grand Central Station revamp
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NewsBellway reduces shared equity sales
Housebuilder uses “resilient” market to halve sales via expensive incentive
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NewsAustin-Smith:Lord owes staff £850,000
MottMacDonald, Mouchel, Arup, Buro Happold and Parsons Brinckerhoff among the creditors to financially troubled architect
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FeaturesMy working day: F+G QS Astrid Andersson
The quantity surveyor at consultant F+G in Leeds juggles a busy work schedule with her love for horses
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NewsIndustry clients address Building's CEO summit
Speakers include Urban Splash’s Tom Bloxham and EDF’s Alan Cumming - view the video
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NewsTop architects donate Square Mile artwork for charity
Work of 100 top architects was auctioned at the 10x10 Drawing the City event
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CommentLatest output figures suggest construction is sliding into recession
However, future revisions may well be upward so October’s figure may not be as bad as it seems
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FeaturesMichael Dyke, Lend Lease: 'It's business as usual'
When Lend Lease dropped the Bovis name, it said goodbye to one of UK contracting’s oldest and best-known brands. Building talks to Michael Dyke, the construction arm’s new boss, about where the division will go next. Portrait David Levene