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1,000 new homes join £1bn RSL backlog each month
Housing associations fear low sales could seriously impair ability to build homes for affordable rent
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NewsMetropolitan Workshop triumphs with Libyan conflict museum design
UK architect beats off the competition for Tripoli museum with design inspired by Bedouin tent
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NewsStrategic Forum launches new safety initiatives
Communications group aims to improve industry awareness while new plant group will expand crane work
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E.ON prepares to build nuclear reactor in Gloucestershire
German energy firm understood to be considering £4bn plant for site, which is just one of a number of potential acquisition targets
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Comment
Stamp duty down £500 million a month
The latest figures for tax receipts suggest that the Government is down about £500 million a month in stamp duty revenue.Taking the three months to October the revenue trawled in £2,162 million in stamp duty. This compares with £3,926 million over the same period a year earlier.The bulk of the ...
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Comment
Housing figures underline the haemorrhaging of construction workload
The latest starts figures appear to support the view that house building will drop by about a half next year as current projects completed and few if any new sites are opened.That would mean a loss of about £10 billion in construction workload.Put another way that is about half the ...
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Is the frozen housing market beginning to thaw?
Looking at the most recently released housing market data for October it is tempting to interpret it as showing signs of a thaw in a market that has almost frozen solid.On the month transactions rose according to the revenue figures, lending was up according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders ...
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FeaturesGuide to winning work in… education
With a new primary school investment programme joining Building Schools for the Future and the academies scheme, education is still a rich source of work
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CommentMy digital life: David Eastgate
Not your average chief executive, this ex-punk band member spends his online time surrounded by drums and drumming paraphernalia. Unless he’s on holiday, when you’ll find him talking to Building
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CommentComedy of errors
This week, causes for confusion include a mysterious marketing campaign, a dubious safety claim, a phantom contract and a rather naughty search term – plus, the RIBA’s clever job creation scheme
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CommentYou’ve made one tiny mistake: Absolute obligations
Even if a brief seems straightforward, beware of taking it on as an absolute obligation. After all, you never know what might happen
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CommentAll over bar the shooting: Frameworks
What better way to work, you say, than a lovely, co-operative framework deal? Fine. Just don’t expect it to be bloodless, painless, dispute-less or litigation-free
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Not lost in translation: Using NEC3 contracts abroad
There’s no reason why civil engineers and others shouldn’t use the NEC3 contract abroad – but bear the following points in mind …
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FeaturesProcurement: Single-stage tendering
Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon sets out the pros and cons of the single-stage strategy and offers some guidance on how clients and contractors can use it successfully
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FeaturesGulf State Building awards 2008
The first Gulf States Building Awards were held last week at a glittering evening ceremony in Dubai’s Madinat Jumeirah hotel, where the award-winners hobnobbed with top English rugby players
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FeaturesFalling idol: Is there a downturn in Dubai?
If you thought the golden city of Dubai would be the saviour of the construction industry, think again
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FeaturesOf a different stripe: Nottingham's new science park
The sub-industrial grey box we normally associate with science parks is nowhere to be seen in HawkinsBrown and Studio Egret West’s park, camouflaged as it is by floating bulrushes and giant timber lily pads.
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Blueprint for leadership
While I admire the quality of the work architects produce, I cannot help but disagree with Keith Mason’s Open Mike (24 October). There is only room for one leader, but that isn’t necessarily the architect.
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Negative energy
It is surprising that some people still believe electricity to be 100% efficient (and clean).