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    Fears over costs derail affordable housing model

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    HCA plans to sell half of Gloucestershire site after deeming mutual-ownership scheme too expensive

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    An eco-town down

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    The developer behind the Marston Vale eco-town has pulled out of the competition

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    Funding black leaders

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Social housing regulator the Tenant Services Authority is funding five places on a leadership programme for black housing staff

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    £2m of contracts

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    A2Dominion Group, south-east housing association has given £2m of estate management contracts to Esskay Cleaning Services, New Green Services, Just Ask and Rose Property Services.

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    FSA clampdown

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Firms that buy homes and rent them back to their owners will be regulated by the Financial Services Authority

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    Move for EP director

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    David Hughes, former regional director of English Partnerships, will now lead the Leicester and Leicestershire Economic Development Company.

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    Southern appointment

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Southern Housing Group has appointed a new director for London

  • Danish firm BIG Architects has unveiled proposals for a 1 million m2 eco-island off the coast of Azerbaijan
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    Green land

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Danish firm BIG Architects has unveiled proposals for a 1 million m2 eco-island off the coast of Azerbaijan

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    Contractors to cover costs of environmental makeovers

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    The government is considering allowing homeowners to carry out an environmental makeover of their homes that would be free at the point of delivery

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    Crossrail delays naming partner

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Crossrail has delayed announcing its programme partner for the £15.9bn project from mid-February until next month

  • The design for the £142m Danat Al Emarat hospital in Abu Dhabi by HKS
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    Danat Al Emarat hospital: No ill effects

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    This is the design for the £142m Danat Al Emarat hospital in Abu Dhabi by HKS

  • Murray Coleman
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    Murray Coleman named Bovis Lend Lease global boss

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Murray Coleman, the former UK chief executive of Bovis Lend Lease, is to oversee the business on behalf of its parent company in Australia as part of a senior reshuffle

  • Money made through the Olympic park’s use after 2012 will help subsidise the running costs of the stadium, Olympic bosses admitted this week
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    Legacy to fund 2012 stadium

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Money made through the Olympic park’s use after 2012 will help subsidise the running costs of the stadium, Olympic bosses admitted this week

  • Joe Martin
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    Clients, tread carefully

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Advice for a falling market

  • Cement
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    Cement makers suffer as another UK plant closes

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    The downturn has been felt across the supply chain, but nowhere more than the cement sector

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    Fast-track bids are 'not feasible'

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    A change to the government’s procurement rules is putting firms off tendering for public sector work because they do not have enough time to bid

  • Industry leaders gathered on Tuesday
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    Grand coalition aims to get Britain building

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Construction’s largest ever coalition of industry forces met at Westminster this week to demand that the government intervene to prevent the predicted 300,000 job losses in the sector in 2009

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    More woe for Heatherwick in Shanghai

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Thomas Heatherwick is facing further humiliation over his designs for the British pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo after it emerged that part of the structural design may be ditched over safety concerns

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    Latest construction appointments - 13 February 2009

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Balfour Beatty subsidiary Balfour Kilpatrick has named Karen Murdoch director responsible for safety, health, environment and quality

  • A ballet school designed by Allies and Morrison has been given the green light by the London Borough of Southwark
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    Lords of the dance

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    A ballet school designed by Allies and Morrison has been given the green light by the London Borough of Southwark