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FeaturesCountry focus: Hong Kong
Despite government investment in public sector projects, the construction industry has been badly damaged by the slowdown in China and Macau
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FeaturesUttlesford: the council trialling consequential improvements
L is for … The government has twice shied away from including consequential improvements in reforms to Part L. Now one small council in Essex has shown that not only can it be done, but it can even be popular. In the second in our series on the Part L ...
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NewsTop of the shops
David Chipperfield’s Kaufhaus Tyrol department store in Innsbruck, Austria, has been topped out. The €155m (£133m) building, for client Signa, is being built on the Maria-Theresien-Strasse in the historic town centre
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Five UK firms vie for Masdar standards job
Masdar, the £13bn UAE project to create the greenest city on earth, has invited five UK organisations to tender for the contract to design its sustainability standard
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NewsThe new Vic
Revised plans by architect Carey Jones for New Victoria Place in Bradford have been submitted for planning consent
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OFT bid-rigging probe on track
The Office of Fair Trading is on course to announce the outcome of its five-year bid-rigging enquiry at the end of September, following last week’s High Court decision in its legal battle with housebuilder Crest Nicholson
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NewsAcademic honours
Willmott Dixon has been selected to build two academies in Bexley, designed by Hunter Architects and worth £55m in total
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NewsLatest construction appointments - 31 July 2009
Plumbing and M&E contractor Skerritt has appointed David Jones to expand its property care business into Yorkshire
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Housing stats: New build sales and completions in June 2009
This month’s data shows that applications to build new homes have hit an 11-month high
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Leadbitter enjoys 9% profit rise and 22% boost in turnover
Leadbitter has boosted pre-tax profit by 9% from £9.2m to £10m in the year to 31 December 2008
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Citywatch: A question of honour
Chris Cole, chief executive of WSP, was careful not to be drawn on the thorny subject of bad debt in the Middle East, as he announced the engineer’s half-year results this week
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Skanska UK returns to black
Skanska UK has returned to the black a year after making a loss of £41.5m and parting ways with former chief executive David Fison
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Wolseley profit falls 60% – and there’s worse to come
Pre-tax profit at building materials giant Wolseley has plummeted 60% to £233m over the past year and it warned that its markets will “continue to deteriorate”
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NewsBalfour Beatty boss is industry’s best bargain
Ian Tyler, chief executive of Balfour Beatty, has topped a value-for-money table for construction bosses
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CommentDiversity in construction: Small steps
Ensuring the workforce reflects society (and therefore its clients) is a complex long-term project that needs to be tackled at all levels
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FeaturesGreen cement: reforming the carbon criminals
Examining the latest attempts to find greener formulas for one of the world’s biggest carbon criminals – cement
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FeaturesTimber panellised system
Framework BSL, the manufacturer of pre-engineered panellised building systems, has supplied a timber panellised system for the construction of an art centre at King Charles I School, Worcestershire
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Sealing foam for timber frames
Foam tapes manufacturer Iso-Chemie has introduced a sealing tape aimed at the timber-frame housing market