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Ujima: your views
Figures from around the housing world tell us what they made of the report into the Corporation's handling of Ujima's collapse
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NewsAudio: Housing Corporation 'over-cautious' in Ujima collapse
Listen to the press conference to launch a report into the Corporation's handling of the first housing association insolvency
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NewsTender prices fall 2.4%
RICS survey shows price of construction work has dropped despite rising costs to the industry
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NewsGovernment should guarantee mortgage market, says FSA
Report says government should guarantee billions of pounds of mortgage market bonds to revive market
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NewsHousing Corporation 'over-cautious' in Ujima collapse
Regulation was 'not fit for purpose', says report into first housing association insolvency
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Boris Johnson merges Design for London
London mayor absorbs DFL into London Development Agency in bid to streamline operations
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Council managers are friendly types, reveals study
Think tank finds "unfeeling" stereotype inaccurate as council managers are more extrovert than most
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NewsWeston pier owners to rebuild after fire destroys their work
Michael siblings vow to start again after their recent £1m renovation is undone within hours
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NewsLimitless to name contractor for Dubai canal scheme
Winning bidder from 10 competing for earthworks on £5.5bn Dubai scheme to be named by August
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Chinese stadium damaged by fire
Firefighters took almost five hours to control blaze at construction site in Shandong
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NewsSheffield firms fined £140k for site death
Court fines two companies after one man was killed and three injured when using an access cradle
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NewsLovell wins £53m Hounslow affordable housing contract
Morgan Sindall subsidiary named as council development partner on five-year housing programme
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Ridge snaps up QS firm Walfords
Consultant says it take on 30 new staff members as part of acquisition
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NewsSlide show: Hammarby Sjostad
Our reporter went on one of the popular 'decision-maker' tours of the Swedish eco-development led by David Birkbeck of Design for Homes. These are the shots that he got.
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NewsWill the Construction Act reforms work?
Legal experts Rudi Klein and Rupert Choat debate the pros and cons of the government’s proposed legislative changes
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NewsGreen gauge - best of the blogs
We round up some of the chatter that's sparking discussion and debate amongst sustainable commentators
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NewsPersimmon suppliers told to cut price by 15% or lose work
Subcontractors may have their contracts retendered if they refuse to cut agreed contracts
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New proposals but same old story for eco-towns
Sensible new proposals for underpinning the environmental credentials of eco-towns risk getting swamped in the torrent of negative news.
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NewsWelsh wall collapse kills three-year-old girl
HSE and police to investigate collapse of breeze-block wall thought to be associated with construction site
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NewsXtreme self-build: Scrap Heap Challenge meets Grand Designs
Making a shed-cum-spare room from reclaimed items: get together a team of mates, pop to a woodland to find a few unloved trees, nose around some skips or a disused railway. Bit of edible paint, bit of copper guttering. What could be easier? An intrepid Finsbury Park couple found out ...