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NewsMarketing your way back to growth
Slashing your marketing budget is no way to get through a recession, and will only put you on the back foot when the upturn arrives
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NewsHow quickly can government cut construction spending?
One thing is certain, spending cuts are inevitable - but just where will the axe fall and how much will it hurt construction?
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NewsStarting your own business, part 11: Adding to the team
Work is coming in - too much, in fact - and it's time to face the facts: you need help
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NewsVictoria station firms asked to work for free for a year
TfL has told contractors bidding for £695m upgrade they may have to stump up £20m to win job
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NewsConstruction firm failures down 15%
Insolvencies in the industry drop more than 42% from peak but experts warn that situation could worsen
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NewsBuilders are luckiest people in UK
Construction workers top list of lottery winning professions, with more than £1bn-worth of prize cash
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NewsSkanska keeps steady with £1.5bn turnover
Operating profit of £38.9m and £1bn Essex BSF contract start year off on positive note
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NewsBellway warns of sluggish start to year
Trading update cautions that lack of mortgage affordability will result in a slow first half of 2010
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NewsTories to make ‘presumption in favour of development’
Planning green paper, set to be launched next week, will lay out ‘pro-sustainable building’ policy
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NewsLDA to release land for 12,000 London homes
The London Development Agency is planning to release sites in east London with capacity for up to 12,000 homes as part of a major development strategy to be launched next month
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NewsUN recruits RICS to aid in Haiti rebuild effort
Surveying body will advise on immediate building needs, costs of recovery and long-term plan
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NewsUnion warns of skills time bomb
Unite calls for greater government investment in training for young people in construction and engineering
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NewsIndustry set for £27bn green energy bonanza
Government renewable energy plans announced this week could create a multibillion-pound surge in demand for construction work
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NewsA renewables revolution is coming
The government's announcement on feed-in tariffs is to be welcomed but some details need to be looked at carefully
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NewsTenants move in to Dubai's O14
HH's 22-storey commercial building is one of first to be occupied in Business Bay district
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Comment
Government burglars
As Brian Green points out in his column on drumming up work, the government has pretty much kept the industry in business during the recession. About 40% of construction work undertaken in Britain is bought by the taxpayer, compared with 31% in the days when Northern Rock was just a ...
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Comment
Bulls in the housing futures market turn sheepish
There has been a sharp change of mood among the traders of housing futures who punt large sums on the level of house prices at given years ahead.Traders had turned bullish last autumn and even at the end of the year the Tradition Future HPI was showing a projected ...
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NewsMakes you shiver
Nick Roarty snapped this “pair of clowns” near the Barbican in the City of London in the act of installing signage from a ladder stationed on top of their van
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CommentThe little Ceausescus
When it comes to making changes to listed buildings, planners and conservation authorities are often unhelpful, ill-informed, and obstructive to the point of malice