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NewsHazardous sculpture costs Heatherwick £1.7m
Designer agrees out-of-court settlement after Manchester council sues over B of the Bang
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NewsBig names vie for Sustainability Awards
The shortlists for tonights’ awards feature the biggest names in the built environment
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NewsAll-party MPs to champion infrastructure
New parliamentary group will promote transport and other infrastructure development to boost economy
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NewsMake and KSS to design Spurs stadium
Make is appointed to masterplan site leaving KSS to work on stadium
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NewsBoris presses for Crossrail start
Transport investment among measures proposed at joint taskforce to help London through the downturn
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NewsBarratt warns of more writedowns to come
Housebuilder reports sales in line with expectations over past quarter but prices continue to slide
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NewsJapan officially enters recession
National economy has shrunk for second quarter in a row, reveals Japanese government
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Axe hangs over Dev Secs' Slough scheme
Withdrawal of council support could kill regeneration scheme that already lost a housebuilder
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NewsBalfour Beatty promotes McNaughton to chief operating officer
Former MD moves up from 1 January, reporting to chief executive Ian Tyler
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Urban Splash confirms 60 jobs cut
Developer admits it has laid of 21% of its staff and put two Liverpool schemes on hold
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Barratt chairman puts his money where his mouth is
At Barratt's trading update this morning one analyst questioned whether FD Mark Pain or chief exec Mark Clare would be buying shares in the company any time soon."It's a good mark of confidence from the directors in the company's fortunes," he pointed out.Pain was cagey and joked that his wife ...
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How bad will deflation be for UK construction?
The talk now is not of inflation but deflation.The latest inflation figures showed a fall for the first time in 15 months and the Prime Minister chided the opposition with the line that if this year was about inflation next year is about deflation.But what would it mean for construction?Well ...
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NHBC latest figures show deepening pain for house building in 2009
The NHBC figures for October show private sector house building plumbing new depths.The number of new registrations for the month dropped to just 3,454, compared with 14,698 last year. Taking the three months to the end of October registrations were down by 73%.While private sector completions were a shade perkier ...
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Are plunging rents a prelude to a mass buy-to-let sell off?
Here are the figures that the buy-to-let critics and cynics have been waiting for. Rents are plunging.Okay, this is only one month's figures from the surveyors' body RICS, but the many buy-to-let critics will see these as heralding a transformation of buy-to-let bulls into buy-to-let rats ready to flee the ...
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NewsMcBains Cooper appoints directors for new Leeds and Glasgow offices
Consultant plans to expand in northern and Scottish markets with new regional offices
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NewsCBI predicts 'deeper and longer' recession
Revised forecast shows 9% out of work and interest rates slashed to 1.5%
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NewsNakheel to scale back projects
Palm Islands developer says it will re-examine scale of developments in light of downturn
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NewsPrivate equity firms circle Taylor Wimpey
Oaktree, Apax, 3i and Permira mulling bids for housebuilder
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NewsWSP wins work on £300m Network Rail scheme
Consultant will scrutinise environmental performance on rail link in central Scotland
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John Doyle to close St Albans office
Concrete contractor will close office despite 19% boost in turnover