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NewsSwedish sustainable housing
Sweden has become something of a world laboratory for sustainable housing. So what can we learn from their experiments – apart from the fact that they’re light years ahead of ours?
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Tests and Trials
Jackie Sadek might find our pronouncements on the grocery retail sector a little less Kafkaesque if she read them properly (6 June, page 56).
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CommentFlash of inspiration
The recent flooding in the West Country brought the UK’s unpredictable weather onto the front pages again
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Griping back
In response to your article (Generation Gripe, 13 June, page 67), how disappointing that staying late at work is still viewed by some as the only sign of commitment.
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North of the border
Caroline Flint says England is a world leader in green building (13 June, page 62).
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Atkins cheers the engineering sector with 24% profit growth
Atkins has posted results for 2008 at the top end of City forecasts, thanks to rapid growth in the Middle East.
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Sharewatch - Let gloom be unconfined
As Tony Pidgley predicted last week, housebuilding shares have “bumped along at the bottom” over the past seven days. And who would doubt the clairvoyant powers of the Berkeley boss?
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Meeting homes targets will not solve affordability problems
The government’s own advisers have warned that even if it meets its increasingly ambitious target of building 2 million homes by 2016, housing affordability will continue to worsen.
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NewsStoring up trouble for the future
Kevin Williamson on the long-term prospects for the UK housing market
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NewsGood health!
The industry celebrated its excellent record in workplace wellbeing and looked to building on it in the future at the 2008 Health and Safety Awards
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NewsZenith music hall, Strasbourg: Light entertainment
The £38m Zenith music hall in Strasbourg has been completed.
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Lenders hit new housing hard
UK mortgage lenders are penalising buyers of new-build housing by offering much poorer terms than for second-house houses.
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Gleeson will make loss
MJ Gleeson has warned it will incur a material pre-tax loss for the full year owing to a likely shortfall of income from house and land sales.
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NewsDublin's docklands: A public display
A public consultation has been launched into the €4.5bn (£3.55bn) regeneration of Dublin’s docklands.
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Rebuilding Trust campaign to be presented to the OFT
A list of 70 companies that have pledged support for Building’s Rebuilding Trust campaign in the nine weeks since the Office of Fair Trading’s statement of objection was published will be presented to the body on Monday.
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20 years after Canary Wharf, Cesar Pelli returns to Docklands
Cesar Pelli is to design a tower in London’s Docklands 20 years after his landmark building at Canary Wharf broke ground.
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Boris’ pledge on house sizes
Boris Johnson has announced he will make Parker Morris space standards compulsory under the terms of the new London Plan.