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NewsStalled colleges to get extra £200m of government cash
25 colleges to benefit from funding top-up – but must slash project costs by up to a quarter
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NewsHSE to prosecute Sellafield for nuclear contamination
Criminal proceedings follow investigation into 2007 incident when contractors were exposed to contamination
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NewsInterserve seals £270m Enniskillen hospital PFI
A constortium headed by Interserve will build the acute hospital and provide facilities management for 30 years
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NewsTurner & Townsend axes 90 jobs in UK
Consultant cuts jobs this week following months of resisting redundancies
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NewsResidents plan legal action over Rogers' Chelsea scheme
Group threatens Westminster council with judicial review on heels of Prince Charles’ intervention
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NewsCombined daylight and ventilation
Glidevale has launched a combined unit for delivering natural ventilation and daylight into commercial and domestic buildings
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NewsMechanical ventilation
Vortice has launched a mechanical extract ventilation unit to help designers meet Code for Sustainable Homes criteria
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NewsCrest turnover to fall by one-third in 2009
Stephen Stone, chief executive of Crest Nicholson, has said the recession will slash turnover by a third in 2009
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UK attacks EU plan to force on-site energy generation
Associations lobby against directive that would force buildings to create their own energy by 2019
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BDP fights back over £4.6m Wimbledon claim
Building Design Partnership is contesting a £4.6m claim by the All England Lawn Tennis Club that it was responsible for design flaws on the media and broadcast centre at Wimbledon
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NewsRegulation trends: Hard cash and plenty of change
The regulatory landscape is shifting in all directions, but some patterns can be picked out. Nick Jones identifies the major landmarks from our regulations round-up... and wonders how we’re going to pay for it all
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Back to the future
Basildon firm wins contract to build T5 driverless personal transport pod prototype
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NewsProcurement: the price is tight
Developers should think twice before putting the squeeze on contractors
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Comment
Latest GDP figures confirm plunging construction workload
The update on the preliminary GDP figures for the UK's economic growth confirm construction activity was down in the first quarter by 8.6% compared with a year earlier. This puts industry workload on a level with that last seen in the summer of 2003.The figures have remained unchanged since the ...
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NewsBCO specification: the incredible shrinking office
The latest British Council for Offices specification is the leanest and greenest yet
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Homes sales continued to perk up in April, but it's too early to call it a recovery
The official figures for property transactions will make comforting reading in April for those selling homes.They seem consistent with the prevailing view that the housing market, in terms of sales and not prices, is showing some signs of bouncing back up from the floor reached at the turn of the ...
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