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Contractors tighten overheads
Contractors will tighten their overheads in 2008 as a result of the credit crunch, consultant Davis Langdon has predicted.
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Pochins profit slide
Cheshire-based contractor Pochin has revealed a 52% drop in pre-tax profit to £4.4m in the six months to 30 November 2007.
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Halstead confident
Commercial flooring maker James Halstead has reported that its turnover growth in the first half of 2008 will be at least 13%.
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Busy year for McAslan
Architect John McAslan + Partners has reported a 30% jump in turnover to £8m for the year ended 31 October 2007.
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Caterpillar’s progress
Equipment maker Caterpillar has reported an 8% rise in turnover to $45bn (£22.6bn) for 2007.
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McInerney output
Irish developer McInerney Holdings has announced a significant increase in output in the UK in 2007.
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Bullish Frank
Sunderland-based housebuilder and refurbishment contractor Frank Haslam Milan has said it expects to see turnover grow by £25m to £85m within a year.
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NewsThe communities department is inviting entries to the 60th annual Housing Design awards.
Since they were launched in 1948, they have celebrated innovation in housing, from Frederick Gibberd’s The Lawns in Harlow – the UK’s first residential tower, completed in 1951 – to last year’s Sinclair building in Sheffield by Project Orange.
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Salford link
English Partnerships has agreed to an £8.5m funding package for an urban development linking Manchester and Salford.
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Prices fall again
Hometrack has reported falling house prices for the fourth consecutive month.
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More first-time woes
Mortgage costs for first-time buyers have overtaken figures from the early nineties.
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News‘A damaging merry-go-round of ministers’
That was how former construction minister Nick Raynsford described the latest ministerial reshuffle to affect the industry, in a letter to Gordon Brown this week. Caroline Flint, a former minister at the Department for Work and Pensions, takes on the Cabinet-level role of minister for housing, replacing Yvette Cooper.
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Launch of housing superagency may be brought forward
Plans to bring forward the launch of the housing and regeneration superagency that will replace the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships are being examined by its chief executive.
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Rebuff for church
A £70m church in east London by Sheppard Robson has been rejected by Havering council because of a lack of transport links.
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Cutty Sark boost
The fire-damaged Cutty Sark received £11m towards restoration from the Heritage Lottery. Wilkinson Eyre and Pringle Brandon’s Mary Rose Museum won a £21m grant.
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261m order book
Renew says it has a £261m order book and is confident of reporting full-year results in line with expectations.
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Wilson James deal
Wilson James has been awarded a £900,000 contract by Bovis Lend Lease to provide logistical support at the Chiswick Park Building 9 project in west London.
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Tradeswomen wanted
The government plans a National Apprenticeship Service to oversee the qualification of, and encourage female apprentices “to look at trades concerned with construction”.