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NewsLondon mayor retracts opposition to three London towers
Boris Johnson u-turns over £1bn Waterloo development that includes 33-storey tower
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NewsBonus bonanza for Wolseley bosses
Profit plunge and 10,000 job losses fail to dent executives' pay
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CommentVigilance at all times: When to give notice to the insurer
Insuring your building against design risks is one thing, but as the Kajima case shows, deciding when to give notice to the insurer – and what to claim – is quite another
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NewsHousing stats: New-build sales and completions in September 2008
While private starts are at just one-third of their 2007 figure, public housing is relatively stable
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Mergers and acquisitions market hits zero
Mergers and acquisitions in the UK construction market have effectively ground to a halt in the wake of the credit crunch
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Bankruptcies and job cuts to hit building control sector
Councils and private inspectors face further cutbacks, as Butler & Young closes four offices
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Crossrail in talks over major projects agreement…
£16bn infrastructure scheme could use lucrative pay deal pioneered at Heathrow Terminal 5
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NewsJCB staff choose paycut to save jobs
Over 4,000 employees will work a four day week in bid to stave off redundancies
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Self-defence for directors: Risks to directors when a company goes under
In the second article in our series on the legal implications of the economic downturn, we look at the risk to directors if their company goes under
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NewsCitywatch: The uncomfortable silence at Taylor Wimpey
The information vacuum at Taylor Wimpey over the progress of rescue talks with its lenders was making analysts particularly twitchy this week.
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NewsMurray Coleman leaves Bovis Lend Lease UK
UK chief executive transfers to Australia; chief operating officer Nick Pollard set to replace him
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NewsUAE trials £1.5bn PPP scheme
Abu Dhabi is trialling its first PPP deal on a £1.5bn project to upgrade a “dangerous” highway
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NewsFoster + Partners picked for New York super-library
New Central Library will become the world's largest public library
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Laing O’Rourke deal rescues 450 Bison jobs
Laing O’Rourke has struck a last-minute deal to buy parts of failed concrete specialist Bison saving 450 jobs at the struggling Staffordshire firm, writes Stuart Macdonald.
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Civil engineers urge help for small firms
Banks criticised for failing to ease lending restrictions as firms hit by falling workload
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CPA raises doubts over government’s 2009 spending pledge
Industry experts have called on the government to provide clearer details of its pledge to bring forward public spending on construction projects to combat the recession, amid fears that is recycling old commitments.
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Eight accused in boycotting inquiry
The Office of Fair Trading has formally accused eight construction recruitment firms of price fixing and anti-competitive behaviour.
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NewsShortlist revealed for World Building of the Year
But conflict of interest forces Norman Foster to stand down from jury
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Chris Rickard into the breach
Taylor Wimpey is keeping new finance director Chris Rickard firmly under wraps at the moment. It's probably a wise move; he has better things to do than meet the City or talk to the press.Like steer the housebuilder towards the safe haven of a refinancing deal.He comes with a healthy ...
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Bit of banter between Pidgley and Ronson
At a recent property event, heavyweights Tony Pidgley and Gerald Ronson shared a stage.It didn't take long before the thorny subject of planning came up. Berkeley Homes boss Pidgley bemoaned a process he said overlooked the fact real human beings were involved.He continued: "I was in Disneyland with my three-year ...