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Social housing facelift
Carillion Property Services has secured a £20m contract with Aberdeen council to refurbish kitchens and bathrooms in its homes.
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NHS contract
A consortium led by John Laing has won a contract to build the £230m Pembury hospital in Kent.
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Gleeson care homes
Gleeson Building has been appointed design-and-build contractor on a £65m care home deal in Cheshire.
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80m college project
Aberdeen council has appointed quantity surveyor Doig + Smith to turn Marischal College into its headquarters.
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Dyball lands a heap
Dean & Dyball has won a £6m contract from New Earth Solutions to build a composting facility in Kent.
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Childrens Trust deal
Morgan Ashurst has been awarded a £4.8m contract to build a residential home for The Children’s Trust in Surrey.
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NewsSharewatch — Amec’s bull run starts to run down
Amec’s bullish run, during which its share price climbed from 400p in January to a year high of 849.5p earlier this month, has lost some of its steam in recent days.
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Small builders demand VAT cuts on eco refurbishments
Building work that contributes to ecological improvement of homes should be exempt from VAT, the body representing smaller building firms will say when it launches a Building a Greener Britain campaign this month.
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Green policy is ‘lip service’
Anne Power, a former urban taskforce member, has criticised the government’s progress over improving the environmental performance of Britain’s existing housing stock, saying it was barely even paying “lip service” to the problem.
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Porritt slams failure to reward sustainability best practice
Jonathon Porritt, the chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, has accused the government of failing to provide enough incentives to the construction industry over climate change.
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NewsLeit-werk rocks Blackpool
Leit-werk, an architectural practice in north London, has won a competition to redesign the St John’s precinct in the centre of Blackpool.
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House price see-saw
House prices rose in September, in spite of fears that they would fall, according to the latest government house price index.
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Capie for Corporation
Jim Bennett, senior research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank, has replaced Richard Capie as head of policy at The Housing Corporation.
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All change in Aylesbury
Developer Multiplex has bought a shopping centre in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
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Chair at Milton Keynes
Garrett Emmerson, a director of consultant Steer Davies Gleave, has been appointed the first independent chair of the Milton Keynes and South Midlands strategic transport board.
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£230m stock refurbishment
Four contractors have signed an agreement with Haringey council in north London for £230m of refurbishments for council stock.
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Final approval for Robust Deta
The communities department has approved the Robust Details scheme, whereby housebuilders are exempt from sound testing homes as required by the Building Regulations.
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Affordable housing deal
The Housing Corporation has signed a deal with four councils in the West Country (Bristol, Bath and North-east Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire) to speed up the delivery of affordable housing.
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