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NewsYorkon offers green design options for modular buildings
Off-site manufacturing outfit unveils add-ons to make modular buildings more eco-friendly
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NewsThe construction tycoons who made the Rich List
Find out which construction millionaires have made it onto the 2008 Sunday Times Rich List
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NewsHouse prices fall 0.9% over last year
Prices in April are down 0.9% on the same month last year according to Hometrack
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NewsBritain’s richest housebuilder feels the pinch as fortune dips to £730m
Sunday Times Rich List reveals an £80m fall in the fortune of Keith Miller and his family
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NewsStrategic Forum wants public information register for tower cranes
Safety group echoes MPs in support of Building’s Safer Skyline proposal
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NewsClients told to watch out for anti-competitive behaviour
OFT investigation prompts Construction Clients' Group to issue warning about bidders
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NewsIndustry marks International Workers Memorial Day
Sixty-nine black baloons released to commerorate construction workers killed in 2007/8
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Barclays bank launches project bank account
Second high street bank to offer construction industry a central payment system
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Barratt hires ex-tobacco man as non-exec director
Mark Rolfe, former finance director at Gallaher, will join the firm this week
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Two-year sewerage upgrade holds up Welsh waterfront scheme
Construction can continue at the £200m Llanelli Waterside regeneration scheme but occupation must await remedial sewerage work
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Chelsea football boss to build Britain's priciest home
Russian billionaire and football club owner Roman Abramovich submits plans for opulent £150m Knightsbridge home
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NewsDavid Strong on building ‘brand zero’
Chief executive of Inbuilt and founder of the UK Green Building Council asks how feasible is a zero-carbon built environment
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NewsFormer rugby star races at Think 08
Jason Leonard will race against teams from Gardiner & Theobald and South Bank University as part of Think Regatta
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Oxford University announces masters in programme management
BT Centre at Saïd Business School launches MSc in Major Programme Management
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NewsBuilding launches campaign to restore faith in contracting
Rebuilding Trust aims to reassure clients of construction’s ethics in wake of OFT revelations
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Opening salvo
The last year has seen something of a surge (to use the current military terminology) in the battle for a greener built environment. A year ago housebuilders were just beginning to contemplate the implications of the Code for Sustainable Homes; now they have gone some way towards actually trying to ...
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NewsA comforting vision of L: KPMG in Canary Wharf
KPMG’s new building in Canary Wharf shows that comfortable, glass-clad offices and the CO2 emissions targets expected in the 2010 revision of Part L are not mutually exclusive.
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NewsWaste and how to tame it
Site waste has never been the most glamorous end of the sustainability agenda. But, with a stringent regulation and a sharp rise in landfill tax being introduced this month, you ignore it at your peril. Dr David Moon of WRAP and Adam Mactavish of Cyril Sweett offer advice on how ...
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NewsThe UK's first code level five homes
The new flats in Mid Street in the sleepy village of South Nutfield might not look like anything to scare the horses, but in fact they are quietly revolutionary. Alex Smith takes a trip to the country to see the UK’s first code-level-five sustainable homes
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FeaturesReducing heat loads: Testing the water at the University of Cambridge
Sustainability and innovation - When the architectural department at the University of Cambridge demanded a sustainable, lightweight building for its students, the designers had to overcome the problem of overheating