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Calas losses improve
Scottish housebuilder Cala Homes this week reported a pre-tax loss of £33.9m on turnover of £168.9m for the year ending 30 June 2009
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Crosby Homes sales rise
Lend Lease housebuilding subsidiary Crosby Homes has reported improved sales in the first half of its financial year from July 2009
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NewsUK explores German refurb funding model
The government has been in talks with German infrastructure bank KfW as it looks for ways to fund the annual cost of greening the UK’s housing stock. That has been estimated at £2bn a year by the government and up to £15bn a year by the UK Green Building Council
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NewsSign the Charter 284 petition to protect construction
Petition the government to support construction investment by adding your name to the Number 10 website
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NewsThe school's in aisle 46
Tesco is reworking plans for a district centre in Bromley-by-Bow, east London, after Cabe criticised them
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Guernsey pulls the plug on Vinci’s £80m waste power plant
Vinci has lost an £80m contract to build an energy-from-waste plant in Guernsey after the island’s council pulled the plug because of its high cost
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HSE to crack down on refurb deaths
The proportion of fatal accidents on repair and maintenance projects soared by a third between April and September last year compared with the whole of 2008
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NewsGreen park
The Beechwood Business Park office scheme in Dover is believed to be the first office built to Passivhaus standards.
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Latest construction appointments - 12 March 2010
New East Manchester has appointed Ian Slater deputy chief executive for its regeneration arm
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NewsPark your Tardis here: BBC's Cardiff Bay studio
Igloo Regeneration has lined up four contractors to bid for the construction of a £25m BBC studio in Wales
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Legal & General backs away from private rental initiative
Insurer will not invest hundreds of millions in £5bn scheme after Treasury fails to guarantee returns
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Barratt told recession no defence for mothballing scheme
Barratt could be forced to pay £9.5m after losing a landmark lawsuit over a development it shelved during the downturn
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CommentSomething to shout about
One of the best bits of news we’ve heard in a long time was delivered by Ed Miliband last week
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Amec sues Thames Water for unpaid bill
Amec Group is suing Thames Water Utilities for £1.1m, after the water company refused to pay it for construction and maintenance work
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Tony Douglas finds role at demolition firm Keltbray
Tony Douglas, the former chief operating officer of Laing O’Rourke, has been appointed a non-executive director of demolition contractor Keltbray
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FeaturesNo more repeats: Episode two of BBC Broadcasting House
With a very public dressing down still ringing in its ears, Britain’s most venerable broadcaster has a point to prove on phase two of the £1bn redevelopment of Broadcasting House
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FeaturesCountdown to 2012: Our year on the Olympics
Catching up on the past 12 months in the life of Building's young 2012 team
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FeaturesDeregulation: Fixing New Zealand’s £5bn leak
Cutting red tape is one thing. But total deregulation is about as sensible as turning on your bathtaps and going on holiday – as thousands of soggy Kiwis now know
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CommentInsurance: Are you prepared to take the risk?
Insurers say they are suffering disproportionate losses from buildings built using modern construction methods. Unless the industry acts, says Thomas Lane, they may pull cover
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FeaturesCordon sanitaire: MAAP’s mental health facility
How do you make a mental health facility secure without it feeling like a prison? The answer MAAP Architects proposes is to turn the buildings themselves into a perimeter fence