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£3.5m Aylesbury win
Morgan Ashurst has won a £3.5m contract to build a conference centre and council building for Aylesbury Vale council
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Repairs matter most
A survey by the Tenant Service Authority has found 81% of social housing tenants think repairs are the most important thing for a landlord to get right
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Bottom of the market
House prices are likely to bottom out at the start of 2010, a property consultant has said
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NewsDogged determination: Green light for Barking Riverside
The first 3,300 homes at the Barking Riverside site in east London have finally been approved by the Thames Gateway Development Corporation and Barking and Dagenham council
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NewsTake note: Make's Octave tower in Vauxhall
Architect Make has submitted a mixed-use development for planning approval
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NewsPfS plots delivery of £16bn of schools
Partnerships for Schools is considering setting up regional frameworks for the £15.6bn of building work that it is taking over from the Department for Children, Schools and Families
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CPA issues decent homes warning
The Construction Products Association has called on the government to set a timetable for bringing social housing up to the decent homes standard
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A disaster guide
The RICS, the RIBA, the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Royal Town Planning Institute have launched a guide to using construction expertise in disaster zones
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Apollo Group
In last week’s Building we stated that Apollo Group had agreed a refinancing deal with Lloyds Banking Group to prepare for its sale
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NewsGolden boy: Media building, Goldsmiths, University of London
Willmott Dixon has been appointed to build the £20m media and communications building at Goldsmiths, University of London
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NewsMorgan Ashurst cuts back in Scotland
Contractor Morgan Ashurst is preparing to scale back its Scottish business after a large schools project comes to an end next month, fuelling concern about public sector workload in Scotland
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NewsGreen shoots - 19 June 2009
Each week Building will ask an expert to analyse the latest evidence of green shoots, and see if it stands up to scrutiny. This week Simon Rawlinson, partner in Davis Langdon, examines the statistics
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Plan to cut court bills on trial in Birmingham
A scheme to reduce the price of going to court for smaller builders is being tested at Birmingham’s branch of the Technology and Construction Court
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NewsWatch this Space
Penson Group has been appointed by the University of the Arts London to design a public building for Camberwell College of Arts in Peckham Square, London
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RIBA urges architects to pull together to fight fee cuts
Sunand Prasad, the president of the RIBA, has written to the institute’s membership to discourage them from cutting fees to win work
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NewsCorby rides again: Hawkins/Brown Corby Cube
The HawkinsBrown-designed Corby Cube in Northamptonshire was topped out last Friday
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NewsWhen the going gets tough
Rather than relaxing rules to bail out ailing schemes, now is the time to introduce clear design standards, so their cost is factored in when the market recovers
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Planning applications in May 2009
The number of projects at detailed planning stage dropped and Heron topped the clients’ chart
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NewsIt's housebuilding, but not as we know it: how the industry will be changed by the crash
After the blind panic of 2008 and the restrained optimism of 2009, housebuilders have begun to think about the way forward
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FeaturesThe big push: getting materials to the 2012 Olympic site
The Olympic team is using every means possible to get the vast amounts of materials it needs into its hemmed-in east London site: roads, railways, and now the River Thames. Thomas Lane reports on a grand offensive