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Carillion JV scoops £50m health treatment centre
Carillion’s joint venture firm Patient Choice Partners wins preferred bidder status for £50m treatment centre in Essex
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Wolseley UK sales hit £2bn
Strong housing market helps builders' merchant Wolseley achieve record UK turnover while world-wide sales pass £10bn mark
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Five dead in Dubai airport collapse
"Multiple" casualties after wall collapse on Laing O'Rourke new terminal job
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FeaturesWhy the public loves an engineer
Open Site proved a roaring success for the projects that opened their doors to an inquisitive public, says Matt Dawson, relationship development manager at the Association of Consulting Engineers.
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FeaturesBoris walks with the dinosaurs
Boris Johnson pays tribute to air conditioning at the HVAC's bash at the Natural History museum.
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Joint ventures help push Pochin profit to £5m
Profit rises to £5m despite slow start to the year in contracting and construction services.
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NewsCITB plans industry-wide apprenticeship scheme
Construction bodies get on board to develop initiative that could entice school-leavers away from university
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Inland revenue probes IT provider BIW
The Inland Revenue is investigating IT project services provider BIW Technologies over tax credits it received on research and development.
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Moayedi makes shock return to construction
Ex-Jarvis boss buys waste treatment specialist to exploit boom in reclaiming contaminated brownfield land.
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CommentStand and deliver
Up until two weeks ago, we thought that 150,000 additional households were being formed every year.
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Doorstepping
We has swapped the hurly-burly of management at Berkeley Homes for the post of managing director at Silver Homes, a privately owned housebuilder developing just 20-50 upmarket homes a year in Sussex, Surrey and Kent
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Precious heat
Up until now, housebuilders have responded to demands that they improve the energy efficiency of new homes by simply adding insulation. Next year, they are going to have to do much more …
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Planning approvals
Approvals have grown significantly in London and East Anglia over the summer. In Wales, however, there is little evidence planners are responding to warnings of undersupply
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New-build completions
The housebuilding industry has been hard at work over the summer, maintaining steady completion levels, but daily sales dipped in June and July. Thank heavens they picked up in August. Maybe the downturn won’t happen after all …
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Buyer demand
SmartNewHomes reports that London bore the brunt of the summer slowdown with a fall in demand of 8.5%. That figure almost exactly matches the rise that Wales enjoyed. Meanwhile urban exiles continue to flock to the South-west
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Expert eye
What are developers cooking up in kitchens? James Pilling, senior designer at interior specialist Connections in Design, looks at the growing importance of kitchen design and its relationship with modern lifestyle
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£300m hospital takes Bovis to the top of August league
After a quiet July, Bovis Lend Lease climbs 29 places – and stays well ahead in the annual contractor charts
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FeaturesMillau Viaduct: C’est magnifique!
Foster and Partners’ Viaduc de Millau in southern France is the highest, longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, and it opens in December. We admire the view, talks to the engineer and meets some enthusiastic locals.