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NewsBuilders hospitalised after lead exposure
HSE investigates suspected lead poisoning during £800k renovation of Perthshire mansion
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NewsNew homes built to fall below 100,000
RICS predicts government housebuilding targets will be massively undershot
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NewsNuclear boost for Atkins with £2.5m MG Bennett buy
Consultant buys Rotherham-based engineer to enhance its nuclear capability
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News$700bn bail out fails to lift US markets
House of Representatives pass rescue deal on second attempt but financial markets remain subdued
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NewsInfinity Tower in Dubai hit by 18-month delay
Cayan's SOM-designed 330m twisting tower will not be finished until December 2011, it emerges
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Overseas growth drives Waterman profit up 37%
Shares in engineering group rise after announcement of increased profit on back of revenue growth abroad
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Structural engineers name new chief exec
Martin Powell moves over from Concrete Society to replace Keith Eaton at Institution of Structural Engineers
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NewsA Muse boost: Green Sky Studio day at Bere Architecture
Michael Willoughby went to visit Bere Architecture's Muse, a proto-PassivHaus in Newington Green, east London, with his camera
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Surveyors smell an ill wind across all construction
The RICS construction survey provides a valuable early indicator of workload trends, so its latest figures showing the slump widening out from house building is cause for concern.You don't see too many charts showing sentiment collapse as fast as it appears to have looking at the charts produced by the ...
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House building in the history books
The surveyors' body RICS seems pretty convinced that annual rate of house building in England will fall below 100,000, unless of course something dramatic happens to pick the market up - what who knows?This had me wondering just how low this puts the house building industry compared to periods in ...
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NewsPressure groups welcome climate change department
Ed Miliband's appointment gains broad support
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NewsHousebuilders' hopes rest with big hitter Beckett
Margaret Beckett must draw on experience to help housebuilders weather the financial storm
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APC Trainer on... Conduct Rules, Ethics and Professional Practice M005 (part 2)
More from Alastair Thompson on conduct rules, ethics and professional practice
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NewsMargaret Beckett appointed housing minister
Former deputy leader of the Labour Party replaces Caroline Flint who moves to the Foreign Office
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NewsMandelson returns to Cabinet as business secretary
Controversial Blair ally replaces John Hutton in shock return to frontbench politics
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FeaturesMy Cityscape: anonymous delegate
The inside track on Cityscape Dubai by a conference veteran who says it will blow away anyone new to the event
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NewsLooney Toon
Iain Kane from Currie & Brown spotted this man out of his 6th-floor office window in Newcastle upon Tyne. As he points out, the balcony the plank rests on is attached to the rotten wood of the dormer window. Let’s hope it holds …
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NewsTaylor Wimpey rescue deal set to survive market unrest
Sources say plans to save housebuilder will continue despite financial problems among its lenders
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Comment£22m later …
As the mood of the times moves smoothly from neurosis to outright hysteria, the return of the Wembley soap opera is strangely reassuring, in a perverse kind of way.