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Kier wins 10-year North Tyneside council contract
Agreement to improve, repair and maintain 16,000 council homes could be worth by worth up to £600m
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Cyril Sweett confident of survival after cuts
Consultant says it is 'well positioned' to survive downturn after redundancies and slashing salaries saves it £11m
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A giant leap for Belarus as work starts on second frog tunnel
Underground crossing will provide safe passage for toads and frogs through national park
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Tube Lines appoints Dean Finch as chief executive
Finch will replace Terry Morgan who moves to Crossrail as non-excutive chairman
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Balfour Beatty seals £170m Fife hospital deal
The PPP healthcare project will deliver a new wing to Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy
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£3.1bn prison PFI plan leaves framework firms in lurch
Industry ‘shocked’ as government confirms that five mini-Titans will be procured in open competition
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SME civil engineers hit by falling workloads
Small engineering businesses workloads declined in April despite government spending initiatives
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Ken Yeang to design Shanghai eco-city in the sea
Malaysian sister firm of Llewelyn Davies Yeang picks up megaproject as China maintains green agenda
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Panceltica faces takeover after Qatar housing debacle
Steel contractor may be taken over by developer and sole client after making £40m loss last year
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McCarthy & Stone boss predicts sale or flotation
The chief executive of retirement housebuilder McCarthy & Stone, has said the company will be floated or bought by private equity in the next few years
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Keen Construction fined for worker's fall through roof
Victim who plummeted five and half metres through a single skin roof broke ribs and was unable to work for a year
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Banks invited to bid for slice of £400m housing fund
Barratt and Countryside among housebuilders lining up bids to unlock schemes with Budget cash
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Styles & Wood refinances to clear £17m debt
Refinancing gives RBS a 20% stake in the fit-out specialist, which made a pre-tax loss of £900,000 in 2008
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Indemnity costs: Colour Quest vs Total and Hertfordshire Oil Storage
A Fenwick Elliott expert discusses the aftermath of a fire at an oil storage depot
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What revelations are there in the insolvency figures?
IfPestilence is the diseased financial systemWar is contractual and trade disputesFamine is the lack of ordersThenDeath must be measured by the insolvency figures.And they do look a bit on the pale side.The base figures show a 56% increase in the number of liquidations across all sectors in the first quarter ...
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Mortgage lending a bit better but still pretty much on the floor
The Bank of England's release on mortgage lending does show a futher slight rise for March.The figures show mortgage approvals for house purchases rose to 39,230 in March from 37,716 in February. And this puts the level of approvals reasonably well up from the bottom reached last November of 27,000.But ...
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Gain and pain: the sting in the tail of Darling's Budget
Public spending on construction is about the only thing keeping the industry going, but the Budget made it clear that this will slow down, and another £1.5bn a year will have to be made in ‘efficiency savings’. The question is: how?
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Urban mountaineering
Ian Mills of IGM Associates sent us this daring attempt to conquer the Building Opposite the Department of Housing in Stratford, east London
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Short and tweet
Dispatches from the Twitter social networking site: Liz Male, PR consultant specialising in construction and sustainability