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FeaturesAmazing ONS Specs! Makes the economy look much better than it is!
According to the Office for National Statistics, 2010 was the year that construction became a powerhouse of national growth and regained all the ground it lost last year. Oh yeah? Building checks out its story, with the help of a few economists …
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NewsRoyal coup
Foster + Partners is to design its first project in Luxembourg after winning an international competition in the grand duchy
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CommentSnakes and ladders
Our sustainability targets are well within our reach. The only problem is working out which technologies will give us a leg up, and which will send us sliding back to square one
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CommentInbox special advisers
Tony Pidgley, Caroline Buckingham and John Bale take the government aside for a bit of a chat
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FeaturesQatar's zero carbon stadium: 96 degrees in the shade
Qatar wants to host the 2022 World Cup. But first it has to convince FIFA that the game can even be played in a Qatari summer. So it got Arup Associates to create a micro-climate inside a 500-seat test stadium. Cool.
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CommentExtreme mowing
Nick Rhodes, of Oxfordshire housing association Sovereign Vale, sent in this photograph taken by one of his tenants. “This is a novel way to cut the top of a hedge,” he says.Email your “favourite” health and safety pictures to building@ubm.com or upload them to the Building Network at network.building.co.uk. The ...
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CommentThe home front
Nick Raynsford If public indignation at the coalition’s housing policies were not enough to demonstrate their unpopularity, the doubts of backbenchers within the ruling parties should be
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CommentWonders & blunders with Sarah Beeny
Property guru Sarah Beeny was transported to childhood by a treehouse, but yanked back into the present by the demolition of a cherished structure
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NewsMears salvages £100m from Connaught debris
Social housing firm Mears expects to expand its revenue and workforce by 10% over the next year after picking up more than £100m of contracts from collapsed rival Connaught, writes David Matthews.
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Places for People boss takes pay cut as staff and revenue fall
The salary of the chief executive of Places for People, the UK’s largest housing association, fell 5% over the past year, according to the company’s accounts.
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Styles predicts sales fall
Styles & Wood has said it expects to see a sharp decline in its revenue when it releases its annual results at the end of the year.
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Speedy sets up new division to ease move out of plant hire
Tool hire firm Speedy has created a consultancy division to advise on site waste management, sustainability and health and safety, which will grow to “several hundred” over the next few years.
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NewsMouchel pays heavily for public sector involvement
Analysts predict two more years of suppressed profit as cuts to road schemes bite
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NewsCity watch: Here comes the cavalry
Mouchel was not the only company that wavered on the market this week - Serco suffered a blip after it tried to pass on a government price squeeze to suppliers and was humiliatingly forced to apologise for it after pressure from Francis Maude
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FeaturesCost model update: small projects
The recent changes to Part L could add up to 8% to the capital cost of building, says David Holmes of Davis Langdon. This is what that will mean for primary schools, social housing and small industrial units
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NewsRas Al Khaimah Gateway
This £1bn mixed-use building has been completed by Buro Happold in the UAE
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Government to take ‘obstructions’ out of developers’ path
Construction minister Mark Prisk has said the government will reduce the number of hoops that developers must jump through before beginning construction
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FeaturesWhat next for Laing O'Rourke? Britain's most secretive contractor
It’s been 10 years since Ray O’Rourke bought Laing, the grand old man of UK construction. The intensely private boss won’t talk about it, but Laing O’Rourke is regrouping after the downturn: eyeing new sectors and infrastructure mega-schemes
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NewsFinancial regulation has gone too far, says Redrow boss
Redrow chairman Steve Morgan says there is a desperate lack of affordable motgages
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NewsBoris appoints housing task force
Peter Rogers will head up task force examing social housing in the capital