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64% of properties still flouting EPC rules
But survey revealed a rise in buildings with energy performance certificates from 25% to 36% between October and January
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£120m Manchester scheme gets green light
Glenn Howells' One St Peter's Square will be a 270,000ft2 mixed-use retail and leisure complex
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£7m invested in fuel cell development
Technology Strategy Board to fund 15 demonstration projects for both transport and stationary applications
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Images: British Grand Prix to hit new Silverstone circuit
Architect Populous says ‘super-fast’ circuit was designed to help racing fans get closer to the action
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Redrow boss slams Tory localization plans
Steve Morgan claims scrapping regional planning targets is like 'putting mice in charge of the cheese cupboard'
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Two Cornwall firms cease trading
Darren Healey Building Contractors and Highgrove Homes (South West) had bad debt of £800,000
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Jarvis hires former Laing O'Rourke director
Phillips Price to become managing director of rail and plant divisions
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Features
Acoustic lighting rafts
More than 1,700m of SAS International System 600 acoustic lighting rafts, incorporating HCP radiant heating panels, have been installed at the Trent Valley Academy in Lincolnshire
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Four eco-towns to share £60m for show homes
Government grants funds for 600 homes, but fears persist over feasibility of programme
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Construction marks seventh quarter of contraction
Industry blames pre-election nerves and rising costs for winter dip in workload and profits
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Dual shower
Rada has added to its Sense range of digital water control systems with the introduction of the Sense Dual Shower T3
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Happy new year for Balfour as it dominates in January
Barometer: Blackburn schools win takes firm to top of construction list for first time in eight months
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Seamless lighting
Whitegoods has supplied integrated lighting for this modern cricket pavilion designed by architect John Pawson, for St Edward’s School in Oxford
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Legal challenge stalls £200m LSC payment
The Learning and Skills Council is delaying allocating £200m of funding for stalled college projects because of a legal challenge over its handling of the building programme, writes Sarah Richardson
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Comment
RICS sees workload slump deeper in late 2009 - providing more fare for the double-dippers
It’s tempting to see the latest construction market survey by the surveyors’ body RICS as yet more evidence of a likely double dip in construction – however you want to define that.And I’m not going to sit here and argue against that possibility.But there is a case for some cautious ...
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‘It’s good to slow down’: Aldar at Al Raha Beach
Abu Dhabi developer Aldar is toning down the extravagance at Al Raha Beach, its 11km-long waterfront paradise. Patrick Bell, its head of pre-construction, tells Thomas Lane why that’s no bad thing
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Comment
Help us out
I found Building’s report from the Construction Skills Network a depressing read (“Construction will be ‘in recession till 2011,’” 27 January, building.co.uk)
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Top security
I have read with interest the response in these pages to the fires at the Green Acre Homes’ Peckham and Camberwell building sites, and how many people seem to believe that the security issues surrounding these fires can be addressed with a generic solution
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