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'Grim prospects' force closure of Hips provider
HIP Facilities Group and subsidiary HIP Payment Services are closing down due to uncertain political outlook and housing slump
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Minister guarantees flood insurance for homeowners
Mortage lenders welcome agreement between insurers and floods minister Phil Woolas
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Project bank accounts: Up close and personal
Ignore the critics: project bank accounts foster trust and collaboration and, in doing so, save everybody a great deal of hassle
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KPMG finds Eastern Europe set for transport boom …
Bulgaria, Romania, Iceland and the Baltic States to grow transport market by 7% for five years
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‘Another successful year’ for Richardson after Rok buy
Richardson Projects, the north of England social housing contractor, boosted pre-tax profit by 44% last year from £3m to £4.3m.
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Construction worker crushed by steel girder
Seriously injured subcontractor was working on £350m Marchwood power station project for Siemens
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Green refurb rules could be worth £6.5bn to industry
FMB says legislation to improve energy efficiency of existing houses could be worth ‘billions a year’
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Styles & Wood cuts 45 jobs and restructures board
New boss believes redundancies and bolstered management board will ‘keep business healthy’
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Architects step into BAA breach
Architects have been parachuted in to review rivals’ work on BAA schemes as employees with construction expertise continue to leave the embattled airport operator.
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Balfour Beatty scores Wembley win
Balfour Beatty has won a £250m deal to build the next phase in Quintain’s regeneration of Wembley.
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Global construction inflation hits 30%
EC Harris reports strong cost rise in eastern Europe over the past year
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Futures market puts house prices in cash terms down by a third by 2011
Punters in the residential derivatives game are putting a very bleak gloss on the direction of house prices.The Tradition Future HPI, which measures future prices against the Halifax (HBOS) non-seasonally adjusted average, puts a value of £137,233 on an average house in June 2011. Given that prices peaked at £201,081 ...
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Jones Lang LaSalle acquires ECD
Real estate firm buys Canadian firm ECD, the original developer of the Green Globes rating system
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Three years of construction recession forecast - is that possible?
My good friend Martin Hewes provided me with a sneak preview of his latest three-year forecast for construction output. It's not a bedtime read for the faint hearted, that's for sure.The Hewes & Associates numbers show a recession in construction stretching out for the three years of the forecast period, ...
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About to fall on slough...
Thanks to Karl Greenfield of the Access Group for this poignant example of the struggle for meaningful human existence in John Betjeman’s “favourite” dormitory town
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Winning combinations – Housing Design Awards winners from the past 60 years
To commemorate its Diamond Jubilee, the Housing Design Awards revisited award-winning developments of the past 60 years, looking for those that, in particular, excelled as sustainable buildings. Martin Spring brings you the six winners. Photographs by Tim Crocker
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The line of duty – Tim Laurence, Defence Estates
Tim Laurence has commanded warships, sailed the world and held top positions in the government. But taking the helm at Defence Estates is perhaps his greatest challenge.
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We did it our way - Charettes
Charrettes are the new face of collaborative planning, bringing together artists, architects and town planners to thrash out a development plan for an area. But do they work?
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Keeping it in the family – Construction dynasties
When family-run businesses are handed down from one generation to another, all manner of issues come into play, not least of which is ownership. Roxane McMeeken looks at how to keep a construction dynasty going