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NewsTop five reader comments: 27 May
Richard Rogers' Chelsea Barracks design comes in for more stick while rival Quinlan Terry is hailed the UK's best architect by one supporter
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NewsMicro CHP unit completes testing
Ceres reaches final development stage of 1kW domestic units for British Gas
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NewsSt Modwen slammed for misleading eco-town ad
ASA rules that developers' ad for Middle Quinton made unsupported claims about housing, jobs and infrastructure
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NewsHopes of house price recovery dashed
JLL forecast of 14% price fall this year and further fall next defies recent signs of market improvement
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NewsProfit up 4% at plumbing group BSS
Preliminary results also show 4% rise in turnover at plumbing and mechanical ventilation firm
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NewsWood Wharf submits Pelli's Docklands tower for planning
Developers British Waterways, Ballymore and Canary Wharf Group unveil towers by Pelli and KPF
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Comment
Playing by the regs
This year there are more government consultations on greening the built environment than ever before.For a start, there are the consultations on the traditional Building Regulations - consultations on Parts L and F were imminent as we went to press. These have been joined by higher, policy-level consultations as the ...
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Comment
A glimpse of the future as 56% of surveyors see workload fall
Construction workload is expected to continue to collapse at a rapid pace according to the latest industry survey by the surveyors' body RICS.Surveyors experienced declines in workload across all regions and all sectors illustrating the broad spread of this recession. Across the board, more than half of surveyors saw less ...
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NewsStone Age safety
'I hope the handbrake's on!' remarks the spotter of this latest example of dubious safety practice in the roofing trade
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NewsNuclear sector seeks state aid
EDF's call for funding to help nuclear compete with wind casts doubt on commercial strength of sector
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NewsRogers designs for Chelsea Barracks 'dead in the water'
Developer reported to be set to drop designs in wake of Prince Charles' criticism
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NewsHeidelberg puts £1bn price tag on Hanson UK
German parent is said to be actively seeking bidders for UK materials firm
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NewsVideo: Westminster Academy by AHMM
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris design for this new London academy won Building’s Public Project of the Year award
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NewsProperty experts reject housing optimism
Jones Lang LaSalle says house prices could plunge 14% this year and continue to fall in 2010
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NewsSkanska pledges to investigate blacklist use
Union has accused contractor of spending more than £28,000 on checks
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NewsQatar construction market to grow 17% in 2009
Reinvestment of oil and gas income in infrastructure is driving a building boom in the Middle East nation
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NewsUK GBC examines new funding plan for home improvements
Green group has launched task group to report on practical steps for introduction ‘pay as you save’ mechanism
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NewsShepherd restructure to trigger redundancies
The 800-strong contractor starts redundancy process and reveals plans to appoint new southern managing director
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NewsAmaryllis vs HM Treasury: Public procurement
The factsThis case concerns a framework agreement governed by the Public Contract Regulations 2006 (“2006 regulations”). In November 2007 the defendant, OGC Buying Solutions (“OGC”), part of HM Treasury, posted an advertisement in the Official Journal of the European Union for a framework agreement to supply, deliver and install all ...
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NewsA case of forgery?
Our legal expert discusses a case in which a company director routinely and with permission signed document in lieu of his colleague