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Is private house building heading for its worst ever recorded downturn?
The latest Government house building figures appear to add weight to growing fears that unless there is a dramatic turnaround in fortunes the number of private homes built this year could fall by a quarter or more.A fall of this scale would beat the 1974 drop of 24% in homes ...
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NewsThis is the end
Taken on a street outside the construction site for the new Bristol Cardiac Centre, Bristol.
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CommentWeb watch Back to schools
The three guest speakers at our online seminar on Building Schools for the Future attracted a lot of interest and questions. Chloë McCulloch gives a round-up and looks at the results of our viewer polls
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Costain orders up 19%
Costain increased its forward order book by 19% to £1.9bn in the first three months of 2008.
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PRP profit leaps 80%
PRP Architects has posted an 80% jump in pre-tax profit from £246,000 to £443,000 for the year ended 30 September 2007.
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Housebuilding plummets
Housebuilding activity in March fell to its lowest level in 16 years, according to a survey of 800 UK construction firms carried out by Experian Business Strategies.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Abatec
“Building magazine has ruined my sex life,” says Tim mid-way through the evening. On the surface it’s not a ringing endorsement for the publication, but he quickly explains: “I read it in bed because I need to know what’s going on, but the missus gets fed up.” Cue jokes ...
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CommentKeep it vague
Mastering detail isn’t everyone’s strong point, of course, so it’s easy to think you’ve built more homes than you have, forget just when it was your boss left or fail to remember way back in March when T5 opened …
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NewsView from the rooftop
Building’s 99% campaign highlighted the need to drastically improve the energy efficiency of existing stock. Here, Greg Slater of PRP Architects considers what needs to be done to upgrade the nation’s housing
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NewsFive steps to …
… successful refurbishment. Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg offers some advice on bringing old buildings up to modern standards
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Green fund may pay for community power
A body could be set up to promote and develop community power generation infrastructure under plans from the Zero Carbon Task Group.
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New towns, same old story
Like many others, I predict that the 15 eco-town proposals (11 April, page 30) will prove contentious.
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Anglo-Saxon attitude
I am afraid Wayne Hemingway’s argument (9 May, pages 44-46) is very shallow and fails to justify why we need to destroy pretty areas of England to encourage yet more overpopulation.
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Treasury trove
Your leader column (9 May, page 3) reports that the first year for gathering figures for projects completed on time was 2001.
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Bring on the managers
The recent article on the NEC by John Redmond (2 May, page 63) missed a trick.
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Jeremy Hackett
I write to correct two facts included in your recent tribute to my late husband, Jeremy Hackett (25 April, page 14).
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NewsThe magnificent Sevenstone
Hammerson has appointed Sir Robert McAlpine construction adviser on its £600m Sevenstone scheme in Sheffield.