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Relief on the home front, but are we really on a road to recovery?
The relief among those connected with the house building and selling industries must be enormous at the moment.Following on from a set of more encouraging sales data and a fall in pessimism among estate agents, we had figures from Nationwide at the end of last week saying that house prices ...
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Arup and Atkins scoop first Crossrail station design job
First design contracts let for Crossrail go to Arup/Atkins JV, Mott MacDonald and Capita
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The bridge on the river Tees
Its parents were Eric Fletcher and Margaret Thatcher. Assisting at the birth were 500 midwives. It is now being cared for by the 187,000 people of Stockton-on-Tees
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Thinking caps: Employer's agents
When a QS acts as contract administrator, certifier, project manager and employer’s agent, it all ends up like a game of pass the hat. But some principles always apply
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Capita scoops £3m Crossrail job
Capita Symonds has won a £3m contract to design the tunnel entrance for Crossrail where it goes underground in the Royal Oak area of west London.
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£1bn green power station two years behind schedule
Industry fears carbon capture pilot delay will affect wider coal-fired power station programme
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Latest construction appointments - 29 May 2009
Balfour Kilpatrick names new health and safety and environmental managers
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Keltbray cuts pay and staff in bid to ‘remain competitive’
Demolition contractor follows 90 redundancies with a 10% pay cut after a drop in new work
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James Nisbet dies aged 89
Founder of James Nisbet & Partners developed the elemental cost plan as a QS
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House prices rose 1.2% in May
Annual rate of decline eased from 15% in April to 11.3% in May according to Nationwide
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Tell them a bedtime story: Public sector tendering
If you’re a public authority inviting tenders, you should treat bidders like small children, eager to learn how you will judge them – and for heaven’s sake make sure they do learn
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The general purpose specialist
If we want to make it through the recession with our highly trained staff intact, we have to carry on doing what we do well, and start doing a lot of things that we don’t
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Westfield told to ramp up Olympic security at Stratford
Stratford City developer is urged to install blast-proof glass on shop windows at massive cost
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Capita Lovejoy shines in Jewellery Quarter design competition
Birmingham City Council selects winning design for £1.5m Golden Square
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London faces new-build housing shortage
There is no oversupply of new-built apartments in the capital according to Savills
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Video: Hemp home stars at BRE's Insite
The house of timber, hemp and wool aims to achieve level four of the Code in its basic form
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Burning questions: Waste disposal strategies
Paul Mansouri and Mark Berry As Costain’s £398m waste project in Manchester confirmed, muck and brass are as linked as ever. The link between muck and renewable fuel is more recent
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Eco-ventilation health scare prompts regulation change
Government to issue guidance in Part F as draft BRE study finds widespread failure to maintain filters
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NG Bailey moves into forestry … and finds God
Eco-nunnery is among first clients as M&E firm starts up woodchip business for biomass boilers
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Friendly bus station falls on Slough
Bblur’s exciting new design ensures Berkshire town is on the architecture map