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118 000 a number to remember – 240 000 a number best forgotten
118,000: The number of new homes that were completed in England in 2009, according to the latest official data.240,000: The number of new homes to be created annually in England from 2016, according to the targets set when Yvette Cooper, Minister for Housing and Planning at the time, announced the ...
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NewsRoyal Mint to spend £16.5m on expanding production facilities
Biggest new investment in 40 years planned for Llantrisant site in south Wales
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News‘Era of huge paycheck over’ as Milne boss cuts pay to £1.4m
Salary of former highest paid director slashed by a third last year, while company makes loss of £27m
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NewsA bleak future for construction jobs
The latest figures may show a fall in redundancies, but don't start cheering just yet
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NewsMonkey business on the Euston Road
If they only had that ladder to reach the first level, how did they get up to the top? A leg-up? Or an upward swing in the fashion of an ape?
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NewsBarratt and British Land were set to support Silvertown Quays
LDA rejected revised bid for £1.5bn Docklands housing scheme despite heavyweight backing
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NewsWrekin's ruby sold at knock-down price
Failed housebuilder's 10,700-carat Gem of Tanzania auctioned off at one-thousandth of earlier valuation
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NewsJarvis predicts £5m operating loss
'Considerable' fall in rail and plant work hits trading at infrastructure and support services specialist
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NewsMore than 160,000 construction jobs cut in 2009
Construction job losses declined by 10% in fourth quarter but sector still accounts for one fifth of UK redundancies.
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NewsHCA seeks contractors for development work
Three sites for 500 homes released under Public Land Initiative today
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NewsCrossrail's final tunnel contract is up for grabs
Contractor sought for twin bored tunnels 2.6km in length
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NewsHighway Agency picks quartet for £2bn motorway framework
Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Costain/Serco, BAM Nuttall/Morgan Est to deliver first phase of programme
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Fewer redundancy in construction, but the future remains bleak on jobs
For the optimists in the construction industry there is much hope to be gleaned from the latest employment figures.Equally for the pessimists there is plenty within the numbers to fret about.So what should we make of the latest batch of labour market numbers that, among other things, show that 163,000 ...
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NewsChelsea flower medallist helps design 'living building' for Ecobuild
Capita Lovejoy's ground-breaking structure aims to highlight role of green infrastructure in the built environment
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NewsPassivhaus diary, part 19: Hotting up
The main heating issue at Denby Dale is finding a system that can cope with such a low demand
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NewsDoes slump in work mean a double-dip recession?
RICS' latest construction market survey provides more fare for the double-dippers
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NewsLDA cancels 4,900-home Docklands deal
Agency working on alternative plans for £1.5bn scheme after terminating agreement with Silvertown Quays developer
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NewsNHS trusts 'astonishingly' erratic on prompt payment
Survey reveals one in five trusts pay only 1% of bills within 10-day target period set to help small firms