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Row erupts as rival slams ‘toxic’ RIBA contract
Institute hits back saying ACA’s alternative standard contract is confusing the market
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FeaturesThe delivery man: Robert Napier, new chair of the Homes and Communities Agency
Can Robert Napier build 240,000 homes a year and run the new government agency in the toughest housing market since the seventies?
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What it costs: Garage doors
Residential garage doors come in a variety of shapes, sizes, finishes and styles. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans considers their maintenance issues and lifecycle costs
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Affordable homes target at risk despite rescue package
Industry observer says government’s £1bn of housing measures will have ‘bugger all impact’
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NewsMorgan Ashurst to build £6.8m school on stilts in Manchester
St Thomas primary's new building will be raised on stilts to counter flood risk
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Contractors seek advice as redundancies rocket
Calls to NFB’s employment helpline double, compared with first seven months of 2007
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Insurers warn of fire risk from green roofs
Developers putting green roofs on their buildings may have to think again after one of the world’s largest insurers declared they were a fire risk.
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NewsSliding doors
Portman Pocket Doors is launching a sliding door system that can save space and provide flexibility, particularly in applications such as kitchens and bathrooms.
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Row erupts as rival slams ‘toxic’ RIBA contract
Institute hits back saying ACA’s alternative standard contract is confusing the market
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NewsODA checks suppliers credit
The chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority has revealed the body is carrying out credit checks on its suppliers in the wake of the deepening financial crisis.
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Contractors seek advice as redundancies rocket
Calls to NFB’s employment helpline double, compared with first seven months of 2007
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News2012's environmental legacy 'under threat', Green Party
Jenny Jones hits out at premier league plans for HOK Sport's £525m stadium
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Prospects for commercial property market dive in third quarter
The latest consensus forecast from the Investment Property Forum paints a bleak picture of prospects in the commercial sector.This will add to worries that the downward dip in the private commercial construction output figures is increasingly likely to turn into a downward slide.The Forum said the figures for the third ...
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Construction output falls 0.5% - but the drop is probably worse than it looks
So the construction output figures post a fall of 0.5% in the second quarter and recession in construction now looks more of a forgone conclusion than a fear.The first point to note is that was not just the private housing sector that pulled the figures down.But more worrying to me ...
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NewsSumeray quits Green Building Council
Sustainability guru to spend more time with his business interests
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Average house will be worth £30,000 less in three years time, say investors
Investors in housing futures are still putting their money on a peak to trough fall in house prices of more than 30%, despite the Government's attempts to buoy the market.The Tradition "Futures HPI", which takes it figures from the prevailing prices in the residential property derivatives market and pegs itself ...
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FeaturesEscape to victory: how SMEs can work abroad
While many of the big consultants dodge the downturn by picking up business overseas, their smaller rivals may be feeling a little imprisoned in the UK. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Thom Gibbs unearths some escape routes that work, and some that don’t
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CommentA matter of some interest: Ruttle vs secretary of state for the environment
It can be difficult to judge when interest on money owed starts to run. But firms will get short shrift from the courts if they claim without having issued an invoice first
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CommentBy personal appointment: Makers v Camden
When a company in a dispute suggested a particular adjudicator be appointed to its case, the other party was incensed. Here’s what happened …