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Feed-in tariffs are a small step in the right direction
The government's announcement yesterday is welcome, but it's limited to small-scale renewables. To meet UK emissions targets we need to think big...
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Building launches networking site
Connect with construction professionals at Building Network and join the various debates
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Capita Symonds snaps up healthcare consultant Inventures
Acquisation of £7m-turnover firm follows reports that Capita is in talks to buy NB Real Esate
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Mouchel warns of covenant breach
Consultant forced to renegotiate terms with its banks as financial problems mount
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Balfour Beatty buys two Multibuild firms for £1.9m
Contractor acquires Multibuild Hotels and Leisure and Multibuild Interiors
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Building services body demands 'clear policy' on apprenticeships
EAL says a more 'joined up approach' needs to be taken by the government to reduce red tape
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Robots to clean Dubai skyscrapers
Swiss window and facade cleaning specialist to launch two machines this week that clean up to 15 times faster than humans
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House prices up 0.1% in January
Hometrack figures show slight monthly increase but prices are down on this time last year
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Call for firms to help unemployed graduates
The Pledge campaign says construction graduates need companies to offer internships
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Householders could earn £900 in feed-in tariffs
Government announces details of payments to households that use photovoltaics and micro wind turbines to feed in energy to the grid
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Galliford Try reaches financial close on £60m cultural PFI in Worcester
Contractor to build Worcester Library and History Centre to BREEAM rating of 'Excellent'
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Is an inaccurate measure of foreign workers messing up the construction data?
Here’s a couple of graphs for stat-spotters I thought worth placing together.For some while there has been unease about both the workforce jobs figures and the repair, maintenance and improvement (RMI) sector figures in the official construction output statistics.The two sets of data are linked and there's been some concern ...
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A tribute to Alan Cherry
I am very proud to have known Alan, to have called him a friend and to have been associated with one of his finest developments
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Project of the month: Elm Court School, Lambeth
English Heritage and Partnerships for Schools highlight refurbished school in London as exemplar scheme
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Unexplainable homes: Access to flats
David Birkbeck's look at the shock troops of housing design continues with a dramatic reinvention
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Latest construction appointments - 29 January 2010
Architect Populous has appointed Ashley Munday principal in the group’s newly formed masterplanning team
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OFT firms face exclusion from council tender lists
North Yorkshire is latest council to turn up heat on contractors, but lawyers warn more could follow
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The rings of Temenos: Anish Kapoor in Middlesbrough
His design for the Olympic site may be a long way off, but artist Anish Kapoor’s latest project in Middlesbrough is taking shape
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OFT victim Concentra bought out of administration
Owners sign deal to buy back £8m of contracts, but creditors may only recover 10% of £4m debt
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Gleeds to manage Marks and Spencer's India expansion
New stores to open in shopping malls around the country and will be about 20,000ft² in size