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NewsWates cracks £1bn but warns of tough year ahead
Contractor hits turnover target a year ahead of schedule but says margins will be squeezed in 2009
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NewsCitywatch: Novel comparisons
This was the week that Tony Pidgley said the bottom of the market was fast approaching – well, the new-build London market, anyway. Cue the predictable flurry of speculation as to what he said, why he said it and what he meant to say
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NewsPidgley's upturn optimism 'only applies to London'
Housebuilders and analysts advise caution over reading too much into words of Berkeley boss
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Miller Group denies HBOS pull-out rumours
Phil Miller, director of Miller Group, has said there is no sign that minority investor HBOS wants to pull out of the company
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Rok boss predicts turnover will drop back below £1bn in 2009
The chief executive of Rok has said turnover will fall back below £1bn in 2009
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Persimmon secures bank deal
Persimmon Homes has completed the refinancing deal it announced at the beginning of the month
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Roofing and insulation firm SIG ponders cut-price rights issue
SIG, the roofing and insulation specialist, is considering a heavily discounted rights issue to shore up its balance sheet
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NewsEx-Hammerson man woos UK firms for £1bn Gulf job
The man that Dubai developer Majid Al Futtaim poached from Hammerson is tapping UK expertise to get a £1bn-plus Middle East shopping centre programme off the ground
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NewsArch rivals: Hopkins Architects’ winning design for Brent civic centre
This is the first image of Hopkins Architects’ winning design for a £60m civic centre in Brent, west London
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Watts makes 10% pay cut
Watts, the international property and construction consultant, has asked its staff to take a 10% pay cut because it expects this year’s turnover to be down 14% on the £27m recorded last year
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Crossrail delivery partner hopefuls must wait for weeks
Bidders for the role of Crossrail’s project delivery partner have been told that they will have to wait to find out who will take the £400m job
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NewsNew school
This is the latest design for Sheppard Robson’s Litherland High School in Liverpool, a One School Pathfinder project for Sefton council
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Bovis Lend Lease announces plans to conquer Latin America
Bovis Lend Lease is planning to expand across Latin America over the next three years
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NewsWrekin creditors face ruin – as African ruby mystery deepens
The collapse of Shropshire builder Wrekin is likely to put many of its subcontractors out of business, a lawyer representing creditors has warned
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MPs push for immediate legislation against blacklists
Nearly 80 MPs including ministers and members of select committees have signed an early day motion to ban the use of blacklists
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Part L: The animated edition
Building Regulations could include pictures and diagrams to help foreign builders, architects and householders interpret them, if suggestions by government advisers are followed through
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Major firms face fines for electricity use
Legislation designed to force corporations to cut their electricity bills will affect four times as many construction firms as previously thought
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NewsMédiacité building in Liège: Belgian big top
A 60m link section of a 350m steel lattice roof designed by Ron Arad Associates and Buro Happold has been installed on the Médiacité building in Liège, Belgium