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NewsWilmott Dixon wins £25m Middlesbrough school contract
Oakfields Community College in Acklam is among £47m of recent schools contracts won by contractotr
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Housing stats in October: Residential projects and approvals
A £400m project took Tottenham Hotspur to the top of at least one league this month
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NewsImages of the Olympic beach volleyball venue
Designers release images of how the temporary stadium will appear in 2012
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NewsMoD may restart £12bn job
Government considers new proposals for St Athan training facility in Wales
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NewsBeattie leaves HCA as new chief executive takes over
Trevor Beattie leaves quango after losing out on the chief executive’s job
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CommentHansom: For one week only!
Roll up, roll up … see the strong man lift the BSF bid document using only two transit vans! See Mr Memory forget his own policies! And, of course, we have beautiful buildings … totally nude!
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FeaturesDave Sheridan: His friends in the north
A year ago Dave Sheridan suddenly found himself thrust to the top of property services group, Apollo. Once he’d got over the shock he set out on a high-risk strategy of shifting the business away from London to the northern regions
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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