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US house prices down 18% from the peak
What happens in the US housing market is becoming increasingly of interest this side of the Atlantic, as confused pundits scratch around for any clues as to what might be in store for the UK.No longer is there a broad sense of confidence that we are immune to what was ...
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NewsScaffolding boss receives prison sentence
Rotherham scaffolder sentenced to three months after 6m fall seriously injures untrained employee
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NewsStyles & Wood issues second profit warning
Retail fit-out firm says it has been hit by 'significant project deferrals'
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NewsDemolition video: Geordies lose their bottle as brewery makes way for students
Newcastle Brown Ale bottling plant is demolished by Sir Bobby Robson to make way for Downing college development
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Steel prices set to rocket
Forecast 40% rise in steel price this year on the back of iron ore inflation will hit construction costs hard
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NewsConstruction fails to match Egan's vision
Survey shows that not enough progress has been made to meet targets set by Sir John Egan 10 years ago
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NewsMay house sales down 37% as lending falls 56%
UK house sales collapse as credit crunch drives down mortgage lending
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NewsGovernment faces legal challenge over Hertfordshire housing targets
Hertfordshire council is challenging East of England Plan to build over 80,000 homes in the county
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NewsNew benchmark rewards genuine carbon cuts
Carbon Trust standard will encourage firms to make genuine improvements rather than use carbon offsetting
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NewsImages: Construction of Make's sculpture in Nottingham
Ken Shuttleworth attends the completion of UK's tallest freestanding piece of public art
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Capita Symonds to control noise at Glastonbury
Firm to monitor noise levels at music festival to comply with new regulations
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School project in TV makeover show
Construction firms team up to transform three classrooms for BBC Breakfast TV inside a week
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"There is no housing market"
It is always a worthwhile experience chatting to Hometrack's Richard Donnell, there are always ideas and sparks of ideas.Having tracked him down this morning we talked, unsurprisingly, about the weirdness of the housing market. He made one particular comment that caught my ear."There is no housing market," he threw in ...
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NewsMcBains Cooper gets green light on £20m green scheme
Consultant is architect on doctors' and nurses' accomodation in Cambridge featuring photovoltaic cells and green and brown roofs
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NewsRobinson Low Francis acquires Trett Manly's PM team
Consultant boosts its project management service and global ambitions with acquisition
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NewsRider Levett Bucknall QS on oldest English Gin distillery
Firm consultant for Bombay Sapphire Gin distillery G&J Greenall's new 4.1m distillery in Risley
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NewsGovernment speeds up school rebuilding programme
School projects worth £625m to be accelerated by at least six months to tackle delays to BSF programme
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NewsFestival vox pops: "We actually came here for the music"
It seems not everyone is going to LFA events for the architecture, but they're enjoying themselves nonetheless
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NewsWind and biomass revolution proposed
Government set to reveal renewable energy strategy later this week
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CommentFirst impressions: Projects by Foster + Partners and Hadid
Another First Impression panellist, this time James Procter from the School of Architecture at Westminster University, comments on new projects on the Building website