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News£250m released for 3,400 affordable homes
Housing minister also gives green light to biggest council housing programme for two decades
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NewsMake's £7.5m brass building completes
Scheme included refurbishment of existing building and addition of 12 apartments
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NewsInternational anti-corruption initiative to be launched
UK will be among seven countries involved in a pilot scheme to improve transparency in public sector construction
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NewsHouse prices to fall in 2010, says Jones Lang LaSalle
Firm predicts average drop of 7% next year, as unemployment rises and mortgage lending remains weak
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NewsJewish Community Centre to get new north London venue
Designs by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands include three-storey pavilion, landscaped piazza and apartments
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NewsNew government green adviser blames public for blocking energy measures
David MacKay says UK faces blackouts by 2016 if people continue to object to power generation facilities
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NewsGammon wins £150m Hong Kong campus contract
Balfour Beatty has 50% stake in Gammon which starts work on Centennial Campus this month
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NewsPower station strikes staved off by engineering pay deal
Unions say dispute ‘can now be settled’, but employers warn pay rises in downturn may lead to job cuts
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NewsJibbing and tacking with Captain Jack
'Stripped-down finely honed racing machine, built for power and speed': Joey Gardiner joins Jack Pringle on his yacht at Little Britain
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NewsSkanska appoints new UK boss
Former executive vice president of civil engineering and building Mike Putman will take over on 1 October
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NewsLDA to scrap £100m of work to make up for accounting failure
London Development Agency forced to make cuts after it did not properly account for costs of relocating landowners of Olympic park
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NewsArchitect pleads for political asylum … from Italy
Mario Cucinella writes to G8 leaders for help to ‘escape’ homeland’s stifling bureaucracy
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NewsMiller optimistic despite losing £34m in six months
Scottish housebuilder also reported 9% fall in turnover, but chief executive says worst of crisis is over
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Comment
Jibbing and tacking with Captain Jack
Standing on the Cowes quayside at 7.30 am, trying to force a bacon sandwich down into a queasy stomach less than six hours after you had your last rum and coke, is, I am learning, a quintessential Little Britain experience. As is not knowing whether the gentle rocking motion you're ...
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NewsHe’s the king of the castle
Kevin Power snapped this steely-nerved handyman, from his home office in Youghal, Co Cork. Perhaps the man is some sort of lookout for the building
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CommentSize does matter
After helpful research by Cabe found that new homes were too small, we may finally be able to re-address the poor design that has been carried out across the UK – and yes, by all of us
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Comment
An unprovoked attack
Rudi Klein’s ungracious and misplaced attack on the JCT contract forms (24 July, page 45) merits a reply
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Comment
Parry and riposte
I don’t know if Graham de Roy (7 August, page 29) is spoiling for a fight, but he seems to have taken a highly selective view of my article (24 July, page 48) on latent defects insurance (LDI)
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Comment
Weighty matter
JT Emanuel (28 August, page 28) has only part of the story when he suggests the consultation over parts L and F of the Building Regulations is 800 pages