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Are you sitting comfortably?
Thanks to Carl Stevenson of Amber Valley council for this photo of a Prague workman – not his best angle admittedly – tackling some roof work on a five-storey building
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Land Securities set to move into housebuilding business
Developer intends to keep control of Ebbsfleet regeneration by developing most homes itself
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The man in black
People sometimes get the idea that adjudicators are a bit like referees on the rugby pitch. Actually, that’s the job of the parties. The adjudicator is more like the scoreboard
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As near as dammit
The Major Contractors Group’s strategy for giving the British construction industry a properly trained and regulated workforce has been achieved. Well, almost ...
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Galliford Try reorganises housing arm after Linden buy
Rapidly growing contractor and housebuilder drops Try Homes brand and splits operations in two
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Kermit’s revenge
The latest news from the tourist hotspots of Kazakhstan, Arizona and St Helena this week, all deftly mixed in with Gyles Brandreth, Kermit the Frog and the opening of Wembley stadium
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Secrets and lies
Building’s feedback section reflects its readers: well-informed with balanced views. Unless you count the scurrilous slurs and innuendoes that English law requires Alex Smith to delete ...
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Stamp duty relief to apply to off-site energy sources
Treasury makes it clear developments will not be required to generate all their own power
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Land Securities set to move into housebuilding business
Developer intends to keep control of Ebbsfleet regeneration by developing most homes itself
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King's Cross scheme taken to High Court
Judicial review set for May as opponents of £2bn scheme attempt to reduce its size and protect Victorian buildings
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Network Rail fined £4m for Paddington crash
Company admitted that inadequate signalling lead to the accident at Ladbroke Grove which killed 31 people
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Government sets 2008 deadline for energy certificates
Energy Performance Certificates will be required for all buldings constructed, sold or let from October 2008
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Bovis rings the changes at troubled northern division
National shake-up continues as Coleman replaces Colin Harvey with Australian Peter Varga
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How to fund a revolution
Last year, I proposed the formation of construction city academies to combat the lack of basic skills in young people. Now, here’s how we should finance them ...
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Shark-infested contracts
Artworks often provide the centrepiece for a development. No problem, you might say. Until you know that Damien Hirst’s shark was commissioned for £50,000 and sold for £7m. There’s a lot of room for negligence writs there …
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Barnet to sell off playing fields to fund school building
North London borough hopes to raise £60m to finance primary schools’ renewal programme
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Vinci shares rocket amid takeover rumours
Billionaire investor Pinault may bid for ownership of French construction group
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Taylor Wimpey: the deal of the decade
It is the merger that has been tipped, on and off, for the best part of a decade, but few would have thought that a £5bn deal between Taylor Woodrow and Wimpey to create the UK’s largest housebuilder would finally be hatched in a “dingy roadside cafe on the M40”.
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Blue cocktails and Bingham welcome Phase One professionals
Building's networking event for new professionals attracts over 200 guests at its first event in East London