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NewsContractor to billionaires says super-rich have slashed spending
Turnover rose 24% last year but Holloway White Allom warns luxury market will be flat in 2009 before picking up in early 2010
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NewsThames Estuary wind farm gets green light
Government budget boost makes world's largest offshore wind farm London Array financially viable
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NewsSaudi Arabia 'needs 1m new homes in five years'
Demand will be boosted by population growth and new mortgage laws, say Cityscape organisers
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NewsPayment delays drive up debt at Interserve
Maintenance specialist hit by 'lengthening payment cycles' in the Middle East but turnover and profit still on track
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NewsGalliford Try reports steady progress
Contractor says full-year results should be in line with expectations
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NewsMinimum design standards to be set for all public buildings
Government launches new strategy on 'quality of place'
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NewsOne in five building sites fail safety checks
Latest HSE inspections lead to enforcement action on hundreds of refurbishment sites across UK
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NewsFire hits Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou opera house
Chinese opera house blaze comes just months after Rem Koolhaas building destroyed in Beijing
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NewsNew buyer enquiries hit 10-year high
RICS data shows more than four in 10 surveyors saw enquiries rise in April
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NewsUK firms to vie for international innovation prize
Government invites five companies to compete in innovation competition in Hamburg
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NewsImproved cement substitute cuts embodied energy
RockTron develops new process that enables more than 50% substitution by pulverised fuel ash
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NewsPhase One:t Birmingham New Street
Station redevelopment leaders give young construction professionals the lowdown on the £600m scheme
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Redundancies ravage the construction workforce - 141,000 jobs gone in the past 12 months
The numbers made redundant in construction over the past 12 months have mounted to 141,000, according to the latest set of figures released by the official statisticians at ONS.Almost 100,000 of those redundancies were made in the six months from October last year to March this year.These figures will grossly ...
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NewsDubai claims: the new regime
There have been significant changes in the way disputes are handled in the UAE
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Look east to find some shelter from the storm
My good friend Martin Hewes has just past me some details of the latest Hewes & Associates forecast for new work construction output. It will not make for comfortable reading if you happen to be trading heavily in Yorkshire & Humberside.That region is set to be the hardest hit by ...
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Surveyors feel a stronger pulse in the housing market
The latest survey of the housing market by the surveyors' body RICS has provided yet more evidence that the rate of decay in the housing market may be easing, with the average surveyor busier than at time since last November.The uplift in buyer inquiries seems to be driving the strengthening ...
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NewsSustainable legislation: keep it simple
We run the risk of adding unnecessary costs and bureaucracy to the drive to zero carbon buildings under the current legislative framework. Influential green figure and thinker Pooran Desai argues for an approach to green construction that simplifies short term goals and incorporates broader sustainable principles than just C02 used ...
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APC tips: Professional development and lifelong learning
This month’s article addresses these two recently updated items in the APC process
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NewsConstruction blacklists to be outlawed
Government plans to speed through regulations banning compilation and use of blacklists that victimise union members
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NewsBut is it art?
This intriguing and elegant structure is clearly a masterpiece of pinpoint balancing – but it's not really scaffolding, is it?