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NewsNew supervisor training standard announced
UK Contractors Group says rules will tighten up health and safety performance
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NewsBack to school: Who is that young man?
In the third part of our nostalgic look at construction figures in their youth, we ask if you can put a name to a face
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NewsBovis Homes raises £60m cash for land with share issue
Housebuilder's share placement opening today provided funds to buy development land
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NewsGalliford Try wins £48.6m of health-sector work
Contractor to build or refurbish healthcare centres and hospitals in Grampian, Newcastle and Liverpool
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NewsStriking Dubai labourers told to work harder to earn more
Al Habtoor Engineering employees returned to work after being informed that any pay increase would depend on productivity
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Comment
A removeable feast: how long will schools funding last?
The education sector is one of the areas to have remained buoyant during the recession. Capital funding has increased fourfold since 1997/98, putting it at just over £4.1bn. Altogether, the education sector is providing £6bn a year for construction through public funding and indirectly through the PFI. These workloads are ...
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Comment
Back to schools: building in a recession
Question one. How can we keep spending billions on school building while struggling with the biggest crisis in our public finances since the war? Not easy, is it? Even a grade A* economics student would struggle with this one.Not many of us are putting our hands up and offering ...
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NewsEric Parry wins planning for £4.5m music facility at Wells Cathedral School
Mendip council approves plan for new music building and sports pavilion
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NewsLAVA's eco-friendly sunflowers to beam on Masdar plaza
Design for plaza of Abu Dhabi's new sustainable city uses flower-like structures that store heat by day for release at night
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NewsDon't break a nail, guys
Putting your hands in your pockets is less effective than a harness at preventing falls but it will save you breaking a fingernail if you do chance to tumble
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NewsDecline in construction activity slows again
Purchasing index for August shows smallest fall for 18 months, although all sub-sectors still in decline
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NewsClimate change activists protest at Laing O'Rourke HQ
Group demonstrates against contractor's bid to build Britain's first coal-fired power plant in 30 years
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NewsAberdeen worker killed in site accident named
Sixty-three-year-old Malcolm Doughty fell as scaffolding on block of flats collapsed at 8am yesterday
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NewsUcatt raises concerns after death on site with 'poor safety history'
Union to call on HSE to confirm that required safety improvements had been made after site was mothballed
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NewsFMB calls for more rural affordable homes
Federation calls for radical overhaul of planning system in response to news that one rural primary school is closing every month
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NewsWorkman dies in Aberdeen scaffold collapse
Police investigating after 63-year-old killed during flat renovation
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NewsCostain seals deal on £230m Bradford schools scheme
Consortium reaches financial close on scheme to deliver eight schools in second phase of city's BSF programme
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Comment
CIPS: construction still the sick man of the UK economy
There is nothing remarkable about the latest CIPS construction survey other than the comments, which are somewhat more guarded than those that accompanied last month's data.It found workload in the industry still falling on its measure which registered 47.7 in August against a no change mark of 50.0. This compares ...
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NewsHealth and safety – time to get real
Let’s stop hiding behind tiresome paperwork and start talking to each other again instead