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NewsEnviros: Failed bidders revealed
Failed bidders for Carillion's environmental consultancy arm include social housing firm Connaught
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Aecom’s five-year plan
Aecom plans to double the size of its UK and Ireland operation – the firm formerly known as Faber Maunsell – within five years, according to Bill Hanway, the company’s new UK chief executive
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Keller buys Singaporean firm
Keller Group, the gound engineering specialist, has bought Singaporean foundation contractor Resource Holdings for £30.6m
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Speedy sales down 30%
Speedy Hire has said its first-half turnover is likely to be 29% down on last year’s figure of £256m despite increased stability in recent months
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News£136m-turnover Lancsville in talks over refinancing deal
South-east contractor says county court judgments, totalling £300,000, are ‘being dealt with’
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NewsCitywatch: Pessimism postponed
Bellway boss John Watson is a glass-half-empty kind of guy and was in “muted recovery” mode at the housebuilder’s full-year results this week
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CommentThe hard way: Gus Alexander on novating an architect
Transferring control of the architect from client to contractor can work fine. It can also make everyone’s life a lot more difficult – particularly the architect’s
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CommentWonders & blunders with Tony Travers
Academic and pundit Tony Travers heaps praise on a pier that lends grace to the Naples of the north, and pours scorn on a pathologically misanthropic medical college
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NewsPersimmon furious over Bellway's social housing plan
Housebuilder of ‘aspirational’ Hartlepool development joins popular protest against partner of 12 years
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NewsTories set to scrap 'ridiculous' apprenticeship rules
Shadow housing minister hints housebuilders would no longer have to use apprentices on publicly funded projects
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Boris' London wheeze
The mayor of London has unveiled his draft plan for the city, as well as his economic development and transport strategies
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HCA seeks helpers
The Homes and Communities Agency has sent 75 invitations to contractors, housebuilders, social landlords and developers to join its developer panel
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House prices rising
The number of RICS surveyors reporting a rising housing market is the highest since May 2007
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NewsCoventry street
Developer Friargate Coventry has submitted an outline planning application to Coventry council for a £1.5bn mixed-use redevelopment of a 15ha site opposite the city’s train station
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CommentAir-con's last gasp: David Strong on a new era for cooling
New guidance on sustainability in offices could mark the beginning of the end for the high-maintenance technology that is air-conditioning – and about time, too
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NewsBlack hole, part I
Ramboll was in charge of engineering design for the latest installation to grace the Turbine Hall in London’s Tate Modern
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NewsBut what does it mean?: Stonehenge visitor centre
Denton Corker Marshall’s designs for the proposed visitor centre at Stonehenge were revealed in a planning application to Wiltshire council
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FeaturesHot this season: are air source heat pumps here to stay?
The government is expecting sales of air source heat pumps to go through the roof. But are they really worth getting excited about or just a passing fad?
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Kier bounces back from OFT verdict with £665m of work
Business barometer Fined contractor still manages to win three times more than second place BAM