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Barratt completions up 3%
Private housing completions on the up but social housing falls as Barratt changes product mix
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NewsBellway reservations rise 6%
Housebuilder will deliver record completions and turnover for six months to January 2007
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Taylor Woodrow appoints new boss in America
Housebuilder takes on former Related vice president John Landrum
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NewsHousebuilders demand energy market reform
Zero carbon homes summit calls for immediate action to develop local energy sources
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NewsBSF chief: financial close ‘takes 32 months’
Building Schools for the Future (BSF) schemes take more than two-and-a-half years to reach financial close, the man running the £45bn programme has admitted.
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NewsMCG launches safety film for migrant workers
Contractors’ group produces multilingual DVD to combat growth in site accidents
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NewsLiverpool docks to get £130m New World scheme
John Lyall Archtiects wins permission for £130m mixed-use scheme in 2008 Capital of Culture
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FeaturesSustainability: Offices
In this latest feature on eco-friendly development, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines how a growing commitment to sustainability will affect the commercial offices sector, with a case study on how a client’s requirements can be met in a leased building
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What REITS mean for you
REITs became a reality this month, and they are about to become a force in the property development world. But what do they mean for the firms that work with them?
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FeaturesA view from the gods
Looking out over this nondescript part of Leicester, and almost entirely suspended from this roof, will be the UK’s most exciting new theatre – and the first building in this country to be designed by US architect Rafael Viñoly.
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NewsPolar pods
This design by consultant Faber Maunsell and UK architect Hugh Broughton is one of two left in a competition for an Indian research base in Antarctica.
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FeaturesThe new boy
The previous chief executive of Building Schools for the Future spent eight stormy months struggling with the brief before jumping overboard. Tim Byles, the local authority bureaucrat who replaces him, has a different plan, a different style, and (he hopes) a different fate.
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Planning applications: December 2006
The South-east and London still tops the table and Manchester council takes over as the biggest client
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Dyball cautious despite 30% growth
Dean & Dyball is predicting a slower rate of growth this year after turnover exceeded expectations in 2006.
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CommentHuman life is cheap in Dorking
Thanks to Philip Sears of Philip Sears Designs for this shot of genteel, leafy Surrey at its most deadly ...
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Off with their hats
In the nineties I was marketing director of Watson Steel, then owned by Amec (“Amec quits construction after £90m writedown”, 15 December, page 9).
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A kink in the chain
I refer to the column “An offer you can’t accept” by Rudi Klein (1 December, page 45).
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Greased palms
Recent research from the Chartered Institute of Building (10 November, page 58) has significant implications for construction professionals.